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New DSLR: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

I’m a little late to the table with my thoughts on the new 5D, but I have an excuse: I’ve been traveling abroad (see this, this and this) and only now managed to sit down and think about it. There’s also an advantage to this: I got to read through the other reviews that have [...]

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Condensed knowledge for 2008-03-20

Totally Geeky - The $14,000 iPod dock doubles as a dining table http://tinyurl.com/2lxd83 #
Geeky Mods - The LED Origami Cube Lamp http://tinyurl.com/2syx3d #
Fun Gadgets - The Condiment Gun http://tinyurl.com/33xw54 #
The Negative Saving Rate and the Age of Easy Credit http://tinyurl.com/2pcxdr #
Ingrid Betancourt Needs Help http://tinyurl.com/2jox2x #
Apple Sends TV “Season Pass” Subscribers Refunds for Programs Lost [...]

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Camera review: Olympus SP-560 UZ

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The Olympus SP-560 Ultra Zoom is just about as good and versatile a camera as you can get, short of a DSLR. I’ve been using this late-model digital camera for the last month, and I’m very impressed [...]

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Camera review: Olympus EVOLT E-500 DSLR

For the past month, I’ve been testing out the E-500 DSLR from Olympus. It’s an entry-level DSLR with impressive specs for its class. These past 30 days or so, it has been my primary camera. It’s been everywhere with me, every day. I’ve used it in all sorts of conditions (indoors, outdoors, daylight, nights, cold, [...]

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Impressions from Walt Disney World (part 2)

Our recent trip to WDW was also an attempt to document the place and our experiences through serious photography, and it was a worthwhile learning experience. Some questions that I asked myself as I set out to do this were:

Am I prepared, equipment-wise?
How do I manage to capture worthwhile photos given that I only have [...]

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Boot Camp 1.1 Beta just released by Apple

I complained in a previous post about how I wanted to buy a Mac laptop that I’d use for both work on pleasure, but couldn’t, because I was shackled to Windows OS for most of my development work, and there were certain things that just didn’t work on the Mac, with either Boot Camp or [...]

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From gas guzzler to green extreme

Professor Andrew Frank from the University of California at Davis developed a hybrid SUV that can get about 100 miles per gallon - or so the article says. It does this because it’s a plug-in hybrid. It recharges its batteries from an outlet at night. This is indeed really cool, but what I’d like to [...]

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Minuscule headset powered by novel battery

I was in my car, driving back from lunch, when I got a call on my cellphone. I’m holding out on buying a Bluetooth headset, because they look ridiculous. So I still have to answer the phone the “old fashioned” way, by flipping it open and pressing Speakerphone. I know, what tough luck… But I [...]

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