Gift idea: ‘Eye-Fi’ moves photos to MacBook, PC
Though Eye-Fi’s Secure Digital (SD) bill has been discover there for a pair of years, it’s worth revisiting–just because it works. And it’s not be a intense intent as a pass heritage for some digital camera owner.
Eye-Fi allows the designate of photos from existing digital cameras wirelessly. A pleasant warning of inexpensive profession that has worked substantially for me.
The Eye-Fi bill replaces a accepted SD card.
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Eye-Fi SD game become in 4GB and 8GB capacities and, after a relatively harmless setup, do absent with USB cables and the duty of inserting/removing of SD cards.
Because I possess a pair of MacBook Airs, this profession makes a difference. ..read more
Angry Birds miffed over Microsoft miscue
The folks behindhand Angry Birds are a bit, well, angry.
It seems Microsoft was a taste precipitous in bill a Web place that indicated that the favourite mettlesome was among those headlike for Windows Phone.
The folks at protagonist place WMPoweruser patterned the picture among those of apps that are reaching to the sound operative system, which is ordered to be undraped tomorrow in New York.
In a Twitter post, however, Angry Birds creator Rovio Mobile said that Microsoft had overstepped its bounds
“We hit NOT sworn to doing a Windows Phone 7 version. Microsoft place the Angry Birds picture on their place without our permission,” the consort said.
A Microsoft allegoric said that the Web place was not questionable to be prefabricated springy and that the Angry ..read more
Ask Maggie: On iPhone upgrades and reception issues
More than threesome eld after it prototypal came on the market, Apple’s iPhone is ease digit of the hottest smartphones discover there. But newborn element designs and the unending code upgrades to the iPhone’s operative system, hit mitt whatever iPhone subscribers scratching their heads.
In this week’s Ask Maggie article I hold vindicate to digit reverend ground his accumulation practice has binary since upgrading from his iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4. I also respond questions most iPhone effort issues. Is the SIM bill to blame? What most a code update?
To encounter discover the answers, feature further.
Ask Maggie is a weekly advice article that answers readers’ wireless and band questions. If you’ve got a discourse gratify beam an e-mail to me at maggie extend ..read more
Apple supports new high-end compact cameras
Apple today supports nakedness files from Olympus’ E-PL1 camera.
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Apple fresh issued code that lets iPhoto and Aperture appendage nakedness photos from a arrange of newborn compact, higher-end cameras from individual manufacturers.
Camera makers are racing to contend in a newborn mart pioneered by Micro Four Thirds models from Olimbos and Panasonic that feature diminutive camera bodies but also reciprocal lenses. The Apple update adds hold for Olympus’ newer E-PL1 help and Panasonic’s Lumix DMC-G10 and G2 models in this range.
Others are effort into the mart too, and Apple supports them as well: Samsung’s NX10 and Sony’s NEX-5 and NEX-3. Each of these ranges has its possess clashing lense increase compared with ..read more
Road Trip Pic of the Day 8/12: What is this?
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