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Lightroom 3 has arrived!


2010
06.08

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Today, after more than 600,000 downloads of the public beta, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 has arrived. The download is ready to grab, and Adobe evangelist Julieanne Kost has posted 10 new videos to take you through feature and workflow improvements, big and small.

Per Product Manager Tom Hogarty, here’s a quick list of what we’ve changed since the last public beta:

  • Profile-based lens correction that addresses:
    • Geometric lens distortion(i.e., barrel or pincushion)
    • Chromatic aberration
    • Vignette effects
  • Manual geometric lens correction
  • Horizontal and vertical perspective correction
  • Improved Web templates for updated color and design options
  • Additional Print templates to utilize the new creative layout options
  • New develop presets for creative B&W and Color adjustments
  • Focal length filtering available in the metadata filter
  • Updated SDK with publish collection functionality and access to collection and keyword metadata
  • Improved interactive responsiveness
  • Ability to upgrade Lightroom 1, Lightroom 2 catalogs as well as Lightroom 3 beta or Lightroom 3 beta 2 catalogs
    • Images edited in Lightroom 3 beta or Lightroom 3 beta 2 will migrate to Lightroom 3.0 with little or no visual adjustments. Minor sharpening adjustments may appear.
  • Ability to migrate Photoshop Elements 6, 7 or 8 catalogs to Lightroom 3
  • Updated print resolution limits of 720ppi for local printing and 1200ppi for printing to a JPEG file.

Via John Nack

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Enhanced icon view not working?


2010
05.24

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Working in the Finder and and this feature is not present. Is this a hardware issue?

Nope, Increase the thumbnail size a bit. If the thumbnail is too small then it won’t work.
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Adobe Creative Suite 5 launch


2010
04.11

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Only 2 more days to go!

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The Latest Episode of D-Town TV


2010
04.02

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This week’s episode of D-Town TV is up (The weekly show for all DSLR users—it’s not just a Nikon only show anymore)

Highly recommended! by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski

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Adobe CS5 Puppet Warp Sneak Peak


2010
04.02

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Check out this vid by Russell Brown, senior creative director and Adobe Evangelist  about the Puppet Warp feature.

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When was your Mac born?


2009
11.10

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Today I asked myself the question, when did I get my iMac? (yes I am considered a normal person) Normally on a Macbook (Pro) I would use Coconut Battery, but on an iMac, there is no such thing as a battery. So I went online an did a search. I found out that you can determine a lot about your Mac from it’s serial number.

So here is the deal….

You might think those numbers and letters are random, but each one actually contains vital info about your computer. Deciphering the code reasonably simple. The alphabetic prefix consists of one or two letters designating a factory code, such as:

  • F: Fremont, California, USA
  • CK: Cork, Ireland
  • SG or E: Singapore
  • UV: Taiwan
  • QT: Taiwan (Quanta Factory)
  • W8: Shanghai China
  • PT: Korea
  • there are others, but I don’t have a complete list. Perhaps I will when the comments pour in!

For Example, one of my Macs, has a serial number of SG7331FSK59, so I know it was manufactured in Singapore. The first numerical character indicates the last digit of the year of production. Common sense should tell you which decade your Mac was made in. Using the above serial number, it’s safe to assume my Mac was made in the year 2007.

The next two digits indicate the week of the year it was produced. So my Mac was made the 33rd week of the year 2007.

According to Macfaq.org, the next three characters are a three-digit base-34 unique identifier. (The letters ‘O’ and ‘I’ are not used, apparently to avoid confusion with the numbers zero and one.)  My Mac appears to have been number 1692 within production week 33 of the year 2007. The remainder of the serial number tells the model number.

To find out more about your own computer, you can save yourself the trouble of having to decode the serial number yourself by using Chipmunk’s online Mac Serial Decoder.

You can find your Mac’s serial number by going to your Apple Menu and choose ‘About this Mac’. Then on the Hardware Overview you will find your serial number.

Courtesy of Laurie A. Duncan of Tuaw
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Unboxing video of Apple’s new Magic Mouse


2009
11.06

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A short unboxing video by Adam Christianson of Apple’s new Magic Mouse. Also shared some of the early thoughts and impressions on Apple’s latest attempt at this input device. Gotta love this little gem! Thanx Adam for Sharing this video with the rest of us!!

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Thanks to Adam Christianson & Maccast

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A Quick Guide to Intel’s Chips, From Arrandale to Yorkfield


2009
09.28

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Intel’s processor for desktops and laptops can be a jumble of codenames — Lynnfield, Nehalem or Clarkdale anyone? Add to that a rebranding initiative, unveiled three months ago, that split the same codenames across different chip families, and it can get downright confusing.

With Intel’s developer conference, aka IDF, which was held last Tuesday, we have created a guide to understanding Intel’s different consumer processors.

Intel currently has three main chip families: Core i7, Core i5 and Core 2. All are based on the 45nm technology that Intel started moving to in late 2007 and are available to consumers now. Eventually the company hopes to phase out the Core 2 line of products and introduce a new entry-level processor, Core i3.

read more here in this article by Priya Ganapati @ GadgetLab

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Mac OS X v10.6: About Wake on Demand


2009
09.20

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A short post about my experiences with the new Snow Leopard feature Wake on Demand. I found out that my 2007 MacBook Pro and Macbook were not visible when they were in Sleep Mode. According to Apple, Laptop Computers should also be visible in Finder, even if they are in Sleep Mode. So what is the deal here, after some research I found out that these MacBooks do not support the new feature, when they are connected to the local LAN wirelessly. They should be connected by ethernet, which isn’t very useful for Laptops with 802,11N onboard. So how can you check if your MacBook is able the use this new feature. Do the following:

  1. Open System Profiler (located in /Applications/Utilities).
  2. In the Network section, select AirPort.

If you see “Wake On Wireless: Supported”, your Mac supports Wake on Demand when connected to a wireless network and registered with the Sleep Proxy Server. If you do not see this entry, the Mac will only Wake on Demand when connected to your network with an Ethernet cable.

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Google Announces Google Chrome Operating System


2009
07.08

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The hottest IT news in months!!!!!

Google announced that it is getting into the operating system business with Google Chrome Operating System. The new OS is described as Google’s attempt to “re-think” what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS will be an open source, lightweight operating system that is initially targeted at netbooks.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

The new OS will run on both x86 and ARM chips. The first netbooks will begin shipping with the OS in the second half of 2010. In the long term, Google does expect that Chrome OS will work anywhere from small netbooks to full size desktop machines.

While Microsoft has the most to lose from such direct competition from Google, Apple will also be affected by Google’s move into this space. In fact, Google’s ultimate goal seems to be the same target market as Apple’s, and is specifically shooting for ease of use and accessibility.

The Web will be a central part of the new operating system, and demonstrates the importance of supplying a robust browser experience. Google’s work on the Chrome browser will carry over into the new OS.

The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

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