Join Ulead’s the way in AVCHD editing capability
With Sony’s annoying reliance on proprietary software solutions, many camcorder users have complained that such formats like AVCHD are almost impossible to edit with their existing software. This has prompted a race to create plugins to handle the Sony format and it seems that Ulead has broken the tape with Ulead VideoStudio 11. Other features of VideoStudio include Vista support, HD DVD authoring and Dolby® Digital 5.1 surround sound.
New users can rely on VideoStudio’s Movie Wizard which helps to select from various themes and can also “auto-edit” a professional looking opening sequence. In addition, it can also perform the famous Ken Burns effect of Panning & Zooming on still photos for photo montages and slide shows.
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Photo Locations are a snap with PhotoTracker
World travellers will be thrilled with the PhotoTracker by GISTEQ. It’s a GPS tagger which synchs with just about any digital camera and then processes and records location data for any picture taken. Later, shutterbugs can use the included software to incorporate that information, along with handy geotags to the photos as they being copied from the memory card to the PC for editing and printing.
Now why is this such a big deal? I mean, GPS photo trackers have been around for a few years now, right? Well, the advantage of the PhotoTracker is it’s size. Others are the size of a small ipod and have to be affixed to the camera using it’s hotshoe. But the PhotoTracker is pocket size, which means that it can easily fit just about anywhere in proximity to the digital camera – your camera bag, your pocket or even your handbag.
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Kodak gets fancy
The “1881” may look like an old heirloom handed down from generation to generation, but it’s actually a digital camera. This is the latest cool, yet functional design was sponsored by Kodak for a study on the future of wearable technology and designed by industrial designer Lindsey Picket. It’s a circular locket style digital camera that is described as a “high tech device hidden in a low tech disguise.”
This isn’t the first time that Picket has designed a gadget for a futuristic study. In 2005, Picket helped design an interesting cellphone for the Samsung Global Sponsorship.
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Coming into Focus
The nice thing about digital cameras is that photographers can finally delete out of focus photographs without having to pay for them to be printed. However, out of focus photographs are sometimes all one has if capturing a moment on the fly.
This sadly leaves only using Photoshop to render a blurry snapshot sharper in the hopes of preserving the image and the moment. Wouldn’t it be great if digital camera technology could advance to the point where out of focus photographs became extinct from the photographic process?
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USB Digital Microscope picks up the dirt
I take a look around my work desk and often let out a long sigh. Surely in between the keys of my keyboard lies thousands of colonies of thriving bacteria and other unmentionable microbes which are invisible to the naked eye, but when put under the scrutiny of the USB Digital Microscope from ThinkGeek, the entire picture changes. Chances are I will probably have to turn in my current keyboard into the incinerator and pick a new one up, preferably a model with an anti-bacterial coating on. Like they say, ignorance is bliss – hence I’ll follow that good advice and save myself a fair amount of money in the process without killing off entire nations of unseen life on purpose.
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Digital camera with built in game play
Almost everything that you buy these days appears to be a multi function device, meaning that you go out to buy a phone, and come back with a camera phone, even though you may never use the camera! These products are normally designed to work in conjunction with each other, like media devices, kitchen appliances and actually almost anything that you should care to mention. However sometimes a product comes onto the market that is multi function, yet works so well it makes you think why didn’t they do that before, that can be said about the DXG Roadster digital camera.
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Forza Ferrari! Ferrari Challenge in Sonoma California (and Massa won!)
So if you’ve been reading here at all for a while, I’m a Ferrari and F1 fan. 
This weekend in Sonoma California there was the Ferrari Challenge, the series where they race 355s and also do runs with the FXX race series (they’re the Enzo in race shape,, amazing!). There were also vintage races as well (separated by drum and disk brakes).
It was a great event and I finally got to see actual recent F1 cars in person and all the accompanying technology with them.
The really cool part is that the Piloti Corsa group was there(Ferrari’s in house group they send whenever someone with one of their old F1 cars goes out and drives). It felt really cool to see a bunch of Italians (they were kind of stand-offish, I asked how the plane trip over was and got the “my english no good” from one of the engineers, so I didn’t push it) all in Ferrari Red (and their cool Puma white mechanics gloves, it was really cool. I don’t think they wear anything more than once, they were all so red and clean.)
to get to see all the gear that they use was awesome! The lifts, the telemetry laptops, and all the air guns were awesome (there, gadgets, its an official post).
Go look at my flikr post here, there are a ton of pics I took so go check them out!
As we don’t get F1 out here on the west coast someday I’ll make it to Indy, Montreal, or Monaco, it was the next best thing. I can’t wait for next year!
Remove Red Eye In Adobe Photoshop
Red eye. What a pain in the ass. I have so many great photos in my iPhoto Library which have been ruined because of red eye. Sometimes I use the red eye tools iPhoto or Adobe Photoshop to fix problematic images, but unfortunately they don’t always do a good job.
Luckily red eye is very easy to fix manually in Adobe Photoshop (US, UK). You just need to know how. Here’s a tutorial on how to remove red eye using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher.
Tutorial: Remove Red Eye In Adobe Photoshop
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