The gadget: The Eye-Fi. It’s an SD memory card that adds Wi-Fi to any camera. Plus the free Eye-Fi service supports automatic uploads to 20 different web photo sites (like Flickr) as well as a computer on your home network.The verdict: It works flawlessly.
The performance: Like we said, the Eye-Fi works flawlessly. Setup takes roughly [...]
Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera
ATI: Linux vs. Windows Vista
Since AMD introduced their new Linux display driver last month, we have published a number of different articles looking at the Radeon performance across their different GPU product generations. This ATI/AMD Linux driver testing and exploration continued this month with the release of the 8.42 driver, which finally introduced AIGLX [...]
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
NVIDIA still has no competition at the high end when it comes to the 8800 GTX and Ultra. The GTX and Ultra offer the fastest single GPU video card gaming solutions on the planet. At the GeForce 8800 GTS level though, there is plenty of competition with the AMD/ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. While this [...]
AT&T gives FREE Wi-Fi to Southern California
AT&T has decided to make a very generous offer to the Southern California region after wildfires swept through the terrain and destroyed homes and ruined lives in it’s path. The areas that AT&T has stated it will be offering Free T-Mobile Hot Spot Wi-Fi services are San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara [...]
AT&T paying Apple $18 per iPhone, per month
The exact details of AT&T’s revenue-sharing agreement with Apple have not been disclosed, but one analyst thinks that over the two-year life of a user contract, the amount exceeds the actual price of the iPhone.
Silicon Alley Insider spotted a research note from Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster estimating that Apple is receiving $18 per month for [...]
Opera 9.5 beta released
is available for download! Since the first alpha release hundreds of bugs have been fixed. Website rendering has been significantly improved, along with performance, stability and usability.
Opera Link
With Opera Link, it’s possible to get access to your bookmarks and Speed Dials everywhere. Get Opera Mini 4 beta and login to Opera Link to get [...]
Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F#
Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on the .NET platform and could potentially help legitimize functional programming in enterprise environments. Microsoft’s promotion of F# to a fully-supported language in Visual Studio is [...]
GIMP 2.4.0 Released
We’ve been covering the development of GIMP 2.4.0 for a number of months, and GIMP 2.4.0 is finally available! GIMP 2.4.0 is so new that their website hasn’t been updated yet, but if you check out the GIMP FTP it is available for download as of October 23. We have some screenshots from an earlier [...]
Wakoopa for iPhone keeps tabs on web apps
Reader Robert sent me a note to tell us that his startup site, Wakoopa (which, I was sorry to note, has nothing to do with Mario’s enemies) has created a section specifically for (and compatible with) the iPhone.
Wakoopa is a social network of sorts that lets you discuss and recommend different software applications for various [...]
Automating Photoshop; Actions and Batching Explained
If you work in Adobe Photoshop regularly, you’ll often find yourself engaged in repetitive loops that have a tendency to drain on your stamina and attention span. Today I’ll teach you how to use, and embrace the Action menu, a tool that will change the way you approach boring, monotonous tasks. Whether it’s mass resizing [...]
