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The Energizer Duo USB Charger can power up your AA or AAA NiMH batteries by plugging it into a wall socket or the USB port of your desktop or notebook PC. The device is quite small and very handy; you can easily take it with you, slip it into your pocket or throw it into …
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Samsung is now mass producing its 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) with 64GB capacity. The tiny drives are targeted at the next generation of notebook PCs. SSDs feature far greater reliability, faster boot times and faster application start-up times than hard disk drives. SSD can also improve battery life by up to 20 percent in …
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The Digital Imaging Websites Association has chosen the Nikon D200 DSLR as “Best System Camera†for its Platinum DIWA Award 2006. DIWA cited the 10-megapixel D200 for its build quality, performance and price. How do they choose their winners? DIWA says their members from Europe and North America continuously test and review digital imaging products, …
Two months from when it was launched, imaging guru Scott Kelby’s “The Adobe Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers†has gone into third printing. Now, that’s success. Readers are snapping up Scott’s books like hot cakes, and no wonder, he writes it in plain language like he wrote it for you and me, without dumbing it …
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If you’re transferring data from your mobile phone to your PC, you might find that doing it via Bluetooth takes a little while and takes a little hit on your phone’s battery juice too. Using your phone’s data cable (optional and expensive) might also be quite cumbersome. Kingston has a solution: the USB microSD Reader …
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This is the new CR-1350p pocket-sized USB 2.0 card reader from Trust Computer Products. It boasts support for 36 types of compact memory cards, including those used in digital cameras and mobile phones – SD, MMC, Memory Sticks, MiniSD, microSD, etc., etc. But alas, it does not support CompactFlash cards, leaving out the multitude of …
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Don Blair logged more than five decades as a professional photographer. He did it all. He worked in a photo studio while still in junior high and ended up owning the studio years later. Fifty years ago he began teaching seminars for Kodak and then expanded his scope to lecture to large and small groups …
Pentax has launched the K10D digital SLR in the Indian market through its country distributor India Digital Lifestyle Distributions Pvt Ltd. The Indian distributor says they are thrilled to highlight the powerful, award-winning Pentax K10D in India, which was launched earlier in the European market in November 2006, and selected as the best D-SLR expert …
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There will be one billion mobile camera phones in use all over the world this year. According to a study by Strategy Analytics Ltd. this reflects a tremendous growth since camera phones were introduced seven years ago. There were only about 3 million camera phones sold in 2001. The figure shot up to 500 million …
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Microsoft is making changes to its Windows Vista operating system following Google’s complaint that a feature of Vista is anticompetitive. This was the agreement reached by Microsoft lawyers, state prosecutors and the Justice Department. Google had earlier complained that Vista discourages people to use software other than Microsoft’s to search through files on their computers. …
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