canon rebel digital camera: October 2008

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Sites to Browse - Shopping - Garbage as Sculpture

Sites to Browse - Shopping - Garbage as Sculpture
Want to take home a piece of New York City? How about picking up some authentic garbage?

One of the more unique travel collectibles you may ever see, NYC Garbage offers just that - garbage from New York City.

But this garbage is not just a mishmash of plastic bags and coffee cups; each selection of garbage is arranged by artist Justin Gignac and placed inside a signed, numbered, and dated cube. And, according to the author, each box "is unique and won't leak or smell", so there's little chance of the smell of reeking Reuben sandwiches entering your home....

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Ben Huh - icanhascheezburger

Ben Huh - icanhascheezburger
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Ben Huh is a tinkerer. He’s been screwing things up at home, school and work since finding a keyboard. (...)

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Ben Huh is a tinkerer. He’s been screwing things up at home, school and work since finding a keyboard. Despite his training as a journalist - and the-right-way-to-spell - he runs I Can Has Cheezburger? Because, laughing at lolcats is a lot more fun than writing about PTA elections.

In the early days, many of the earlier images on this site were found around the internet and forums, such as 4chan, fark, fazed, vwforums, gpforums.

The practice of captioning (specifically, cats) started many years ago on anonymous forums, most prominently called the *chans. Supposedly, the practice of posting and the actual type of these images was termed “Caturday”.

This word has since detached from it’s original context, grown, and evolved into different terms like lolcats, lolrus, loldog and splintered into varying sub-memes and sub-sub-memes which employ different grammatical patterns, different contexts, and sometimes even merges memes. It has since spread through many forums, and online communities such as somethingawful, ebaumsworld.

The meme continuies to evolve into many completely tangential and unrelated memes: lolbrarians, lolbees, lolpresidents (my favorite being LOLcode). A new LOL- spinoff is created every week. This is happening throughout the internet by people who are having fun, and being creative, by taking a meme (idea) and applying it in new and creative ways.

Ben tells the story in a much better way than the site, or any of us, can. He is a hilarious guy, and a natural with audiences. I’m sure you’ll agree after watching his presentation. He had the Gnomedexers in stitches.

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Crowd Sourcing a new logo for Cloud Labs

I've been fascinated by the concept known as crowd sourcing for some time, so last night I decided to start an experiment. I'm engaging the techniques of crowd sourcing to obtain a logo for Cloud Labs (one of my business interests). Right now the pro... (more in the full post)

I want Super Hi Vision TV

I want Super Hi Vision TV
One of the things I have always wanted, ever since I was little, was a TV screen that covers the whole wall. I believe Bill Gates has something like that, but it's probably a video stack, like a Pionner Vidwall.

I want something that covers the whole wall and when I'm not watching one or multiple channels, it can be a screensaver that can take me from a beautiful beach or underwater scene in winter or a ski scene in Canada or France in summer. Something that doesn't give me eye strain from being in the room.

Then I also want real surround sound, so I can immerse myself in the environment.

This week I was listening to the Digital Planet podcast from the BBC and they were talking about exactly this. They were talking about the demonstration of Super Hi Video at the Interneational Broadcasting Conference in Amsterdam and the demonstration of this technology being streamed live from London.

The technology is Super Hivision which offers "a video format with 7680 x 4320 pixels (16 times higher than standard Hi-vision, NHK’s HDTV system) . This world’s first video system with 4000 scanning lines delivers ultra-clear, realistic three-dimensional images that can be achieved only by ultrahigh-definition technology.
- The individual scanning lines are not visually noticeable even when relatively close to the screen, reflecting the high resolution of the system. What’s more, a wider viewing angle conveys a stronger sense of a reality.
- The new 3-D audio system with 24 loudspeakers dramatically enhances presence."

According to the people who were watching it, it is very similar to what you can see and hear in real life. It's taking the gloss off my HD TV (through which I am not yet watching HD)

So if anyone is wondering what to get me for Christmas, give me a call and I'll give you the dimensions of my lounge wall. I suspect the price will be much more than the value of my home right now, but th

at's ok.

Buying a Printer - Consider a Printer that Supports Duplex Printing

Buying a Printer - Consider a Printer that Supports Duplex Printing
Duplex printing may save you time and money by automatically printing on both sides of paper.

Depending on your typical printing tasks, duplex printing is one feature you should consider when purchasing a printer.

Automatic duplex printing means the printer can print on both sides of a piece of paper. Why is this useful?...

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Exclusive Nikon D300 Test and Sample Images Just Posted

We have had the opportunity to test out a final production Nikon D300 digital SLR, and have just posted an image gallery with links to full resolution sample images from this exciting new camera. Some of the images were taken with the AF 50mm F1.8 Nikkor, and the original 45mm f2.8P manual focus lens. Check out the results... Read More

Price Decrease on Nikon D200, D80, D40 and Select Nikkor Lenses

Price Decrease on Nikon D200, D80, D40 and Select Nikkor Lenses
Nikon Canada Inc. has today announced new lower manufacturer's recommended retail pricing (MSRP) on a number of their digital SLR cameras, including the family photography oriented 6.1 MP Nikon D40 and the Nikon D80 digital SLR for the advanced amateur. The Nikon D200 (for the serious hobbyist and professional geared photographer) has been reduced in price by $100 to a new MSRP of $1399 CAN, while the Nikkor AF 80-400mm F/4-5.6 VR zoom lens has been reduced in price by $120 to a new retail of $1579 Canadian. Nikon Canada has also confirmed pricing for their latest new lenses, including the Nikon AF-S DX 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II zoom, the AF-S 60mm f/2.8G ED Macro, and the PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED tilt/shift lens. See full story...

Nikon D90, Canon EOS 50D, D300 and D80 Compared Side by Side

With the announcement of the new 15.1 MP Canon EOS 50D and the 12.3 Nikon D90 enthusiast digital SLR cameras coming on almost the same day, there is certainly a lot of excitement (and debate) happening among photographers within the Canon and Nikon communities. We have just posted a side by side comparison overview between the Nikon D90, Canon EOS 50D, and the D300 and D80 and highlighted the major differences in order to hopefully help make the buying decision process a little easier. See full story... Read More

Canon Rebel XSi and Powershot price drops

Canon Rebel XSi and Powershot price drops
Canon Canada Inc. has today announced a significant price reduction on the 12MP Canon Rebel XSi camera body, and on the available Canon Rebel XSi kit configurations, including the standard EOS Rebel XSi kit with EF-S 18-55mm IS zoom lens. Canon has also reduced the price on the sleek and pocketable 10 megapixel Canon Powershot SD890 IS, SD790 IS and the Powershot SD770 IS digital cameras by up to $50. See full story...

Abode CS4 already the victim of software piracy

Abode CS4 already the victim of software piracy
The ink has barely dried on price tags for the retail version of Adobe Creative Suite 4 image editing and design software, and already it's climbing the charts for number of illegal acquisitions.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Canon EOS 1000D / Rebel XS compared to rivals

Canon EOS 1000D / Rebel XS compared to rivals
Today Canon announced its latest DSLR, the EOS 1000D / Rebel XS. This new model replaces the EOS 400D / XTi as the entry-level model in Canon's range and sports the same 10.1 Megapixel resolution, 3fps continuous shooting rate and 2.5in screen. The big new feature over the 400D / XTi is of course Live View, although the 1000D / XS is also Canon's lightest DSLR to date at just 450g. To help you decide if it's the new DSLR for you, we've compared the features of the new EOS 1000D / Rebel XS against its predecessor and several other key rivals. So to find out all the details about Canon's latest DSLR and how it measures-up, check out our Canon EOS 1000D / Rebel XS feature comparison

Significant growth predicted for UMD market

Significant growth predicted for UMD market
According to new data released by ABI Research, sales of UMDs (ultra-mobile devices) which reached just 10 million units in 2008 are tipped to exceed 200 million in 2013. With most major manufacturers having now entered the UMD consumer arena, this “new” category of portable computing is shaping up to be a significant market...

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Hey - it's a Monday! (Don't you just love them?)

Today's particularly exciting:

Red network is switched on at my place
Getting a new modem (hopefully)
... seeing Vector guys laying fibre less than 200m away

I'll get onto the fibre laying first - I probably won't be able to take a photo, but you'll be able to imagine around 5 guys standing around a hole and feeding fibre into it from a huge bundle.

They've even kindly placed a sign saying that they're laying fibre... (drools at the thought of fibre here)

Oddly enough, we're not getting cabinetised within the next 2 years (from the cabinetisation notice list), so this must be going somewhere else... and I'm just verging on 2km from the exchange. I must really be stuck in the middle.

The good thing without cabinetisation here is that I can stick to the Red network a little longer, now that I've offically been migrated to the Red network. Just look at the following table from yesterday compared to today:

Hardware: D-Link DSL-504T (Gen I)

[Unforunately, no table can be made here...

, ~~so here's a list~~ even making simple fixed font text is hard here, so I'll give you a link instead.]

See here for table.

So all in all, at least a double in speed.

Also, my father realised that we have Caller ID enabled through our line for some reason... special... (and strange considering we haven't signed up to the Caller Display service for $4/mth. Hopefully they haven't signed us up to the Features pack by accident, as we have a Voicemail capable fax, and we definitely don't want calls to go into an external voicemail system)

Lastly, I'll be getting a new MT882 modem from Vodafone in the afternoon - I'll see what kind of speed increase I'll be able to draw out of that.

Most Popular Digital Cameras of September 2008

Most Popular Digital Cameras of September 2008
Garnering nearly five percent of all product clicks last month, the Canon PowerShot A590 IS knocked off Fuji's S1000fd as September's most popular camera.

Tenba Introduces Smaller Convertible Photo Sling Bag

Tenba Introduces Smaller Convertible Photo Sling Bag
Elmsford, NY, October 1, 2008 –  As part of the growth of its Sling series Tenba has announced the addition of the 2nd in a new series of Convertible Photo Sling Bags to its growing Shootout™ collection. According to the company, the new Slings are unique in their ability to be converted from a “quick-draw” shooting bag to a long lens bag configuration, offering significantly more versatility, especially to sports...

Nikon D300 Image Samples Available

Nikon Corporation has now provided another four image samples from the soon to be released Nikon D300 digital SLR. The full size images include a couple of portraits, one landscape/scenery and one action shot. The images are taken at 200 ISO, except for one of the portraits captured at 400 ISO. The Nikkor lenses used for these Nikon D300 sample image tests include the Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor ED 18-200mm F3.5-5.6G, the prime AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D and the AF-S VR Nikkor ED 300mm F2.8 IF telephoto lens. Read Full story... Read More

Logitech Illuminated Keyboard

If Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus keyboard has your wallet crying uncle and Saitek’s Cyborg is a little loud for your tastes, Logitech’s new, ultra-slim Illuminated Keyboard might be just the ticket to bring some flavor to your desk. We found it to tasteful, comfortable to type on, and well built, making it one of the best style-minded keyboards to float through our offices.

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Samsung Yp T10 4GB yp T10JAB

The Samsung YP-T10 is a super slim and sexy MP3 player which although is looking a little like the Samsung Read More

NewEgg: GARMIN nuvi 205 3.5 Automotive GPS Navigation $159 shipped

SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 1 into orbit

With the Space Shuttle scheduled to retire in 2010, alternative transport vessels will need to be developed to keep the International Space Station manned, and to keep options open for possible manned lunar missions. After three failed attempts, the SpaceX Falcon 1 has successfully achieved Earth orbit – the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to do so. ..

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