Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
This firmware update (Version 2.0.8) incorporates the following changes and fixes.
- Fixes a phenomenon in which movies are not taken at the shooting mode registered in the user’s settings if a shooting mode Aperture priority (or Shutter priority) is registered in any of the camera’s user settings (C1, C2, C3) and the user attempts to shoot a movie.
- Fixes a phenomenon in which the shutter will not release when pressing the shutter button when the auto power off function is set to “on”.
- Fixes a phenomenon in which overexposure occurs when shooting a Live View shooting simulation with the ISO speed set to L.
- Fixes a phenomenon in which the settings of the Speedlite transmitter ST-E2 revert to the default settings when both the camera and the ST-E2 are set to auto power off.
- Fixes a phenomenon in which the Macro Ring Lite (MR-14EX, MT-24EX) and slave flash do not sync while shooting wirelessly.
5Dmk2 firmware update
The Version 2.0.8 firmware being released this time is for cameras with firmware up to Version 2.0.7. If the camera’s firmware is already Version 2.0.8, it is not necessary to update the firmware.
Tags: 5dmk2, bug, camera, Canon, eos, error, firmware, Hardware, photography, ugrade
Posted in Canon, Hardware, News, Software | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Palm introduced webOS 2.0, the next generation web-based operating system! We’ve got lots of new and updated
features to make your apps more powerful and flexible. New features include:
- Stacks – grouping related cards in stacks, reducing clutter, and making it even easier to move quickly between task
- Quick Actions – Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites—all without having to launch an app
- Apps can have custom Touchstone at-a-glance views with Exhibition
- Synergy is opening up to developers
- HTML5 and Javascript support is much improved
- Hybrid PDK/SDK apps will be fully supported
webOS 2.0 SDK Beta
Tags: celluar, developer, palm, phone, pre, release, sdk, smartphone, webos
Posted in News, Palm, Software, webOS | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Lightroom 3.2 is now available as final releases on Adobe.com.
Adobe Lightroom 3
The version 3.2 update includes these enhancements:
- Direct publishing to Facebook and SmugMug is now available
- Tethered capture now supports the Leica S2
- Fixed authentication issues that could be experienced with the Facebook publish collection
- Adressed performance issues that could occur while reviewing images in Loupe view
- Corrected several Adobe Photoshop Elements upgrade issues
- Corrected a file renaming bug involving date or time fields
- Export with watermark will now function correctly when choosing the Limit File Size option
- Additional camera support for several new camera models including the Panasonic DMC-LX5, Sony NEX-5 and Canon EOS 60D and over 120 new lens profiles
Tags: Adobe, catalog, editing, images, lightroom, photography, photoshop, raw, Software, tool, utility, version, video, workflow
Posted in Adobe, Internet, Software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Microsoft will hold a gala in San Francisco on September 15th to celebrate “The Beauty of the Web”, official launch of IE9 Beta.
Tags: beta, browser, celebrate, explorer, gala, ie9, Internet, launch, microsoft, new, san francisco, version, web
Posted in Internet, News, Software | 2 Comments »
Monday, July 19th, 2010
This is my first smartphone so I cannot compare to my past experience. I decided to have Palm device cause I wanted two from the same manufacturer after we switched to Verizon due to reception problems in our new apartment. Also I wanted a smaller form factor than most of present smartphones. My wife was not very interested in smartphone so Pixi for her was also kind of compromise.
Palm Pre
Pros:
1. It is fast. GUI is really responsive and you only wait if you are connecting to outside world
2. Multitasking. You really can do many thing at once. Did not try if you can make calls while doing other things but music playing with surfing work.
3. Works as USB drive.
4. Syncs with my Gmail address book.
5. Video. Shoots better video than point’n'shooter even if it has less megapixels.
Cons:
1. Keyboard is pretty small or my hands are too big.
2. Entering numbers is a nightmare.
3. Battery life is very short.I would say it is more like 5h instead of advertised 8h. Do I really have to switch everything off?
4. No way to filter out Facebook contacts.
5. Photo. I am not so impressed with still camera. I need to do more test but built-in flash is not very good.
Tags: 3g, Apple, att, carrier, celluar, coverage, digital, iphone, palm, phone, pre, reception, service, smartphone, verizon, webos, zero
Posted in Hardware, Palm, Software, webOS | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
I did expect to have my LR3 Upgrade shipped so soon but couple days ago I got info from Amazon that it will be sent earlier than at the beginning of July. I got it today and installed it without making any special preparations. I have been doing upgrades on this machine since version 1 and so far no problems. This time installation was quite fast and it asked if I want to upgrade my current catalog. I confirmed and it did it quickly. I tired all my archival catalogs and no problems were detected. I quickly launched it to see how much difference I could see at first glance. It’s almost no visible signs that I am using new version besides big logo it top left corner. It seems to be faster. Maybe because it optimized my catalogs to make them smaller. It is also truly 64-bit. Preview generation also seems to be faster. I read that raw processing engine has been given a complete overhaul so I tried it on few images and sometimes it is immediately visible and sometimes I cannot tell a difference. I cannot see any setting to turn it on permanently but I assume it will import using new 2010 process. Lens calibration recognized two of my lens and visually it seems to have bigger impact on image than just switching a process. I need to play with it more especially when I got images where distortions or chromatic aberrations are more visible. I cannot tell much about noise reduction until I try some high ISO images. Next I wish to see how it handles videos 
Adobe Lightroom 3
Tags: Adobe, catalog, editing, images, lightroom, photography, photoshop, raw, Software, tool, utility, version, video, workflow
Posted in Adobe, News, Photo, Software | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
New version of FFmpeg codenamed “Works with HTML5″ is released. It is first version that supports Google’s newly released libvpx library for the VP8 codec and the Matroska demuxer was extended to support to WebM container.
WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska container.
Tags: audio, codec, format, Google, matroska, open, royalty-free, stream, video, vorbis, vp8, webm
Posted in Google, Internet, News, Software, video | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Beta was out for while so we got a glimpse of what is going to be there. Briefly I want highlight what’s new:
- Noise reduction – natural-looking results from your high ISO images with noise reduction technology
- Lens correction – automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles
- Flickr integration – uploading your images directly to Flickr from within the Lightroom
- Image watermarking – embeding your identity or your brand and logo in your images
- Tethered shooting – importing and viewing images as you shoot them with tethered capture
- Perspective correction – nondestructive perspective correction
Adobe LR3 Release
Tags: Adobe, features, lightroom, new, noise, perspective, photography, photoshop, release, Software, tethering, version
Posted in Adobe, News, Photo, Software | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
At Google I/O conference: WebM, a new project that will attempt to offer a standard, open format for audio and video on the web.
WebM includes:
- VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license
- Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec
- a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container
WebM Project
Tags: audio, codec, format, free, matroska, media, mobile, open, opensource, project, quality, video, vorbis, web, webm
Posted in Google, Internet, Mozilla, Software, video | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
After reading article about WordPress Caching on Tutorial9 I decided to give it a try on my blog. Recently I was experiencing visibly slower page load after installing few SEO related plug-ins. Based on article’s conclusion I choose W3 Total Cache and it seems to speed up my blog at least 10x.
Tags: cache, fast, load, optimization, page, performance, plugin, seo, speed, time, WordPress
Posted in Internet, News, Software, WordPress | No Comments »
