November 29th, 2005
News has been circulating the ‘net about Maxell’s announcement of a new storage medium. Sounding like something strait out of StarTrek, the new medium uses holographic technology to store up to 1.6TB of data on in single 5.25″ cartridge (think of a non-flexable floppy disk).
For the uninitiated, 1.6TB means 1.6 Terabytes of storage. A single […]
November 16th, 2005
Last week I talked about Sony’s rootkit maleware and how to prevent yourself from becoming infected with it. Since then good things have happened in light of the situation.
Lawsuits!
Last thursday Sony earned a class action lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
In California, the class action suit alleges that Sony’s DRM has caused harm to […]
November 9th, 2005
Since early 2005 Sony/BMG has been implementing a form of software called a “RootKit” in order to hide their DRM software that is included with their copy protected music CDs. The Rootkit, made by the UK company First 4 Internet, is poorly written, consumes resources, extremely difficult to remove (as all rootkits are), compromises your […]
October 26th, 2005
Creative Pro has a interview with Aperture product manager Joe Schorr that is somewhat interesting. Not a lot of details emerge from this very short interview that could not have been figured from the Aperture product videos but it’s worth a gander for interested parties anyway.
About the only really new bit of information is in […]
October 21st, 2005
Today Apple released new stuff agian. This time in the realm of professional products. Since I’m a new-found mac nerd ( iNerd ) I guess I should say something about them.
The new quad core PowerMacs are nothing short of awesome. If this is the setup they’re putting out for the G5 PowerPC, I can’t wait […]
October 6th, 2005
For those following this site via RSS it should be known that I have updated the site feed to be served by FeedBurner.
By switching to FeedBurner I can offload the bandwidth of my RSS feed (which accounts for a majority of the bandwidth used by this site), get stats on my feed and I don’t […]
September 29th, 2005
ArsTechnica has a very interesting article on a project by MIT meant to deliver $100 laptops to all children of third-world countries.
This very impressively designed laptop is not theory. The project was announced this last January and they already have prototypes made!
More details at Ars and MIT.
June 10th, 2005
Lexar has available a firmware update to fix an issue with their 80X Profesional CF cards loosing images with Canon cameras.
If you have any of Canon’s newest cameras and are using these cards you should get this issue taken care of.
Here’s the release:
LEXAR CUSTOMER ADVISORY
To: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS 20D, and […]
June 7th, 2005
There have been some rumors that Canon will be replacing the 20D soon. Sure they will. In a year and a half.
For the most part Canon’s mid-range (prosumer) D-SLRs have had life-span of two years. The 20D is selling like gang-busters and isn’t even a full year old. So why the heck would they […]
May 30th, 2005
Canon has just released new firmware updates for the 1Ds Mk II and the 1D Mk II that resolve the lock-up issue that was announced not long ago.
No word yet when Lexar will begin servicing their 80x cards.
The 350D also has a firmware fix available taking care of an exposure issue, WB issueand auto-off issue.