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Apple announces new iPod Touch, iPhone firmware and iPod Nano

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

As well as iTunes 8. Pretty comprehensive announcement, and the short word is that the new iPod Touch is pretty cool. Has speakers and is very thin. The pricing is somewhat sensible. $199 for a iPhone 3G 8GB, $229 for an iPod Touch 8GB but it doesn’t have a rate plan, but looks close. Then [...]

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Backend comparisons: Exchange, Google, or MobileMe

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Whether you are a small business or a family, everyone needs the same three things:

Email ideally from your own vanity domain, whether it is myname@tongfamily.com or myname@igncap.com, while having a @gmail.com or @me.com is nice, we all want our own identity. And we need lots of disk space, at least 2GB per user. Have wireless [...]

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Projectors

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

There is so much innovation in projectors right now. My buddy Mac has done a great job looking for some that really work. Really bright, small and light. Laptop Magazine has a good summary of reviews. Also you can use Projectorreviews.com and in particular 1080p projectors and Projector Central
The most confusing thing about this is [...]

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Which RAW converter to use? DxO 5.1?

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Digital Darkroom

I’ve been using DxO v4.5 with good results but the problem is that DxO 5.0 remains quite unstable. In a side-by-side comparison, Lightroom came off as the most decent, but it doesn’t have distortion correction. Almost means I have to stick with Canon’s own DPP which has distortion correction.
Apparently DxO 5.1 is now out and [...]

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