How To Be Inspired Every Day

How To Be Inspired Every Day

A Guest post by Eva Polak  
“Inspiration does not come like a bolt. Nor is it kinetic, energetic striving. It comes into us slowly and quietly all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and ...

VisualBoyAdvance Hits webOS with a Vengeance

VisualBoyAdvance Hits webOS with a Vengeance

“VisualBoyAdvance for webOS has come a long way since it was started on January 14th. For those unaware, VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is an opensource Gameboy, Gameboy Colour and Gameboy Advance emulator available for numerous operating systems. DtzWill, with the aid of people at WebOS-Internals, has sucessfully ...

Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform!

Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform!

“We’re pleased to announce that Firefox is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform. Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device. Bringing Firefox to mobile devices is the next step ...

8.9-inch ExoPC Slate has iPad looks, netbook internals, Windows 7 soul

8.9-inch ExoPC Slate has iPad looks, netbook internals, Windows 7 soul

Yes, we realize that it’s hard to provide too much visual differentiation between tablet PCs with large, ebony bezels, but we can’t help but think that this 8.9-inch multitouch tablet looks a lot like another, recently announced 9.7-inch multitouch tablet. Nevertheless this one’s quite different on the inside, delivering ...

PMA leak roundup: Olympus, Fujifilm and Hasselblad plan new shooters

PMA leak roundup: Olympus, Fujifilm and Hasselblad plan new shooters

Not sure if you’ve heard, but PMA is just around the corner. You know — that camera show? At any rate, Photo Rumors has a trio of new leaks to swoon over this fine evening, starting with black and white (saywha?) shots of Olympus’ supposedly forthcoming SP800 (or SP-800UZ, if ...

Why the Wii Won

Why the Wii Won

Practically everyone knows that the Nintendo Wii easily outsells competitors from Microsoft (Xbox) and Sony (Playstation 3), making it a clear winner of the “7th-generation” console wars. A source of minor amazement on its own, analyzing the little Wii’s market performance shows that you can’t rely on specs alone to ...

Norton Utilities 14.5.0.116

Norton Utilities 14.5.0.116

Provides the essential tools you need to optimize the performance of your PC Norton Utilities is an application suite that will provide you with the essential tools you need to optimize the performance of your Personal Computer It finds and fixes broken registry links and damaged files frees up disk ...

Tories plan super-fast broadband

Tories plan super-fast broadband

The Conservatives have unveiled plans to deliver a “nationwide super-fast broadband”, part of which could be funded from the BBC licence fee.
Shadow chancellor George Osborne said a Tory government would deliver speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) to the “majority” of homes by 2017.
He said cabling in rural ...

Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price conflict — confirmed

Amazon pulled Macmillan titles due to price conflict — confirmed

Macmillan’s US CEO, John Sargent just confirmed that Amazon pulled its inventory of Macmillan books in a powerful response to Macmillan’s new pricing demands. Macmillan offered the new pricing on Thursday, just a day after Apple announced Macmillan as a major publishing partner in its new iBookstore — a revelation ...

Panasonic clamps down prices, release window for latest F-series line of compact cameras

Panasonic clamps down prices, release window for latest F-series line of compact cameras

Panasonic is nothing like shy about pushing out a plethora of compacts, but while it was talking up specs for the new Lumix F-series of compact cameras back at CES, we’ve just now got some prices and a release date to chew on. The FH1 (12 megapixel, 720p video) goes ...

Nuevasync Releases Yahoo! Contacts Support

Nuevasync Releases Yahoo! Contacts Support

http://nuevasync.blogspot.com/2010/…tacts-sync.html

David over at Nuevasync was kind enough to let me know about Nueva’s Yahoo! Contacts sync feature a month or so ago when they were testing it. My reaction was (almost embarrassingly) “Yahoo! has contacts?”. Yes, it has been a long time since I used Yahoo! Mail for anything and ...

Study finds people want more from their Kindles, less from their newspapers

Study finds people want more from their Kindles, less from their newspapers

This may come as a surprise to you (although probably not, you smart devil), but it turns out that plenty of people are dissatisfied with their current e-reader options — according to a recent study conducted at the University of Georgia. The study was conducted over a six-month period where ...

Dual Electronics’ iPod touch GPS cradle now shipping in late February

Dual Electronics’ iPod touch GPS cradle now shipping in late February

Well, it’s quite a ways off the November 2009 launch date the company initially promised, but Dual Electronics is now saying that its XGPS300 navigation cradle for the iPod touch will really, honestly be available sometime in “late February.” The price presumably remains at the same $179.99 as before, which ...

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (24-30 Jan ‘10)

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (24-30 Jan ‘10)

You may have noticed that we’ve shifted things around over in the forum this week. We’ve split up the Share Your Shots section into categories, much like those in Critique. So if you haven’t had a chance, come check out the new sections and share some of your shots.
Weekly Assignment
This ...

Lightroom Presets vs. Photoshop Actions

Lightroom Presets vs. Photoshop Actions

The ultimate battle ensues for the top drawer in my toolbox: presets versus actions. What’s the difference and what are the pros and cons according to Elizabeth?
First the basics: Presets are Lightroom’s way of applying many changes to a photo in one click. They can be made ...