Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s live store or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail shop.
“iPad is something whole new,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re thrillful for customers to get their deals on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more good, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”
Opening at just $499, iPad lets users surf the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers battery life of up to 10 hours.*
iPad’s revolutionist Multi-Touch™ interface makes surfing the web an only new experience, dramatically more interactional and good than on a computer. You can read and send email on iPad’s large screen and almost full-size “soft” keyboard or import photos from a Mac®, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad’s elegant slideshows. iPad makes it easy to watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD, or flip through the pages of an ebook you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collecting.
The App Store on iPad lets you wirelessly browse, buy and download new apps from the world’s largest app store. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for iPad and will run almost all of the more than 150,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. Developers are already creating exciting new apps designed for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch interface, ...
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Canon Europe pre-announced the release of firmware update version 2.0.3 for the 5D Mark II. This is exciting news for photographers and cinematographers that have been waiting for an update to enhance the 5D Mark II’s video performance.
The update adds new frame rates providing filmmakers with the ability to shoot 1080p Full HD footage at 24fps (actual 23.976fps), 25fps supporting both 1920×1080 and 640×480 for the PAL broadcast standard and changing the 30fps option to the NTSC standard of 29.97fps.
Additional features include a new histogram display for shooting movies in manual exposure, shutter-priority and aperture-priority and exposure modes will also be available in movie mode. A new sound-level meter has been added which will be displayed on the LCD screen allowing users to manually set sound record levels. The audio sampling frequency has also been increased from 44.1KHz to 48KHz, providing the optimum audio signal typically required for professional or broadcast work.
The firmware will be a free update and available for download in mid-March.
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Lynda.com announced the release of their Lynda.com iPhone app. The app provides access to award-winning training videos that teach digital photography, graphic design, web and interactive design, business, applications, 3D, audio, and much more. The app is free to both lynda.com members and non-members. Members have access to all 45,000+ movies in the Online Training Library®, and non-members can sample thousands of training tutorials for free.
Lynda.com members can log in and see the most recent video they’ve watched, whether it has been viewed on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or on their computer’s web browser. The app features high and low video quality for optimal streaming whether connected by Wi-Fi, AT&T Edge or AT&T 3G networks.
Here is a link to view a demo and download the app.
“We are stunned by the positive response to our iPhone app so far!”
The lynda.com iPhone App provides access to award-winning training videos that teach digital photography, graphic design, web and interactive design, business, applications, 3D, audio, and much more. The app is free to both lynda.com members and non-members. Members have access to all 45,000+ movies in the Online Training Library®, and non-members can sample thousands of training tutorials
for free.
lynda.com members have access to the lynda.com Online Training Library® just as they do on their computers. Once logged in, members see the most recent video they’ve watched, whether it has been viewed on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or on their computer’s web browser. The app features high and low video quality for optimal streaming whether connected by WiFi, AT&T Edge, or AT&T 3G networks.
Just as on the site, the Online Training Library® is searchable by software, subject, vendor, or author.
App users can search by keyword, and view results by course or movie, or find content based on learning category.
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Many of the most enjoyable types of digital photography are, unhappily, seasonal. If you love to shoot baseball or football sports action, you’ll have to wait until baseball or football season kicks off. Should your passion be shooting autumn colors as the leaves change after summer’s end, you’ll have to wait until September and October of each year. Wildlife and nature photography isn’t impossible during the winter months, but it’s usually more exciting during the Spring. Architectural photos often look their best with leaves on the surrounding trees.
Weddings seem to proliferate in June. Just when you get really involved in a particular type of photography, the “season” for it ends. But close-up photography is a photographic pursuit you can enjoy all year long. Each April,
I’m out there chasing down blossoming flowers and looking for interesting bugs to capture on digital film. In July, I end up at the beach shooting shells and shore creatures. Come late September, I grab close-up shots of leaves. And during the long winters, I have my macro tabletop set up so I can shoot pictures of anything that captures my fancy. Indeed, close-up photography and portraits are what I photograph most during the cold months.
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AutoStitch, the common panorama running up iPhone app only taken an update to edition 2.0. Now you can make high-resolution images of up to 20MP using the iPhone 3Gs’ built in camera. You can catch a picture using 10 or more overlapping images, then AutoStitch will gather them into a wide panoramic image acceptable for poster-quality publishes. AutoStitch Panorama 2.0 is available for download in the iTunes Store for only $1.99.
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