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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
True to form, yesterday’s Chinese forum leak was swiftly followed by an official announcement from Canon, just as hunger comes a few hours after eating Chinese takeaway.
The camera is of course the brand new 7D, a crop-sensor (1.6x) body set square against Nikon’s D300s, and in the Canon line the 7D sits above the to-be-continued 5D. In fact, it is so closely pitched at the D300s that we put together a comparison table:
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7D |
D300s |
| Sensor (MP) |
18 |
12.3 |
| ISO |
100-6400 |
200-3200 |
| Video |
1080p MOV, 24fps |
720p AVI, Motion jpg, 24 fps |
| Shooting speed (fps) |
8 |
8 |
| Focus |
19 points (all cross) |
51 points (15 cross) |
| Viewfinder |
100%, 1.0x |
100%, 0.94x |
| Processor |
Dual DIGIC 4, 14bit A/D |
EXPEED, 14bit A/D |
| Remote flash |
Yes, E-TTL II |
Yes, i-TTL |
| Price |
$1700 |
$1800 |
Other differences are the dual card slots of the D300s (one each of CF and SD) and an optional Wi-Fi adapter for the Canon which fixes to the base and also acts as a vertical grip. On its own this looks rather limited in use, especially as it won’t fit on any other camera, but in addition to slow old 802.11 a,b and g it has an Ethernet port and USB capability for hooking up to, say, a GPS unit.
This is a strong-looking camera, and we’ll have one soon to test. We don’t expect anything other than excellent: at this level, both Canon and Nikon are playing an good game, and it doesn’t look like either of them is going to slip first.
Lenses
Also from Canon today are a clutch of new lenses. The first are for the crop-sensor cameras, and, as ever, the names tell you all you need to know. The EF-S 15-85mm ƒ3.5-5.6 IS USM ($800) and the EF-S 18-135mm ƒ3.5-5.6 IS USM ($500), both have four stop image stabilization and both have small, dark maximum apertures, worsening as you zoom. This is the reason I hardly ever use zooms: for a depth-of-field limiting aperture of, say, ƒ2.8 throughout the range, you’ll pay a fortune. Sure, carrying a couple of primes with you is less convenient, but its a lot cheaper, too. Especially if you buy second-hand.
The new EF 100mm ƒ2.8L IS USM is such a lens, and is the first to feature Canon’s brand new Hybrid IS stabilization, giving four more stops on an already wide-open lens, and up to two stops when shooting in macro mode. The price is $1050.
Canon EOS 7D Preview [DP Review]
Press release [Canon]
Lens press release [Canon]
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
The smartest way of accessing all of your favorite social networking sites is the Kinoma Play for your windows Smartphone. You can send out tweets on Twitter, upload videos on Youtube, access your Facebook account, name it the Kinoma Play can do it. It really is your all-in-one social media browser.
Stuck in traffic? Why don’t you watch Youtube and forget the bumper to bumper situation you are in. Or you can just update your status at Twitter or Facebook and let everybody know what you are thinking. And of course, if you just want to relax and listen to something, the Kinoma Play can play the music, video, pictures, podcasts, panoramas and audiobooks on your phone. The Kinoma Play is so easy to use and its the best way to maintain connection with everybody while you are outside your home or office.
Features of Kinoma Play for Windows Smartphone:
- Incredible value — Finally! No need to waste money buying a pile a separate apps that don’t play well together — Kinoma Play is the COMPLETE mobile media center for your phone.
- Home Screen [new!] — Create personal Home screens for fast access to your favorite stuff. Exclusive ZoomLinks let users jump instantly to almost anything — individual items, entire albums, even to specific features of any Kinoma Play application.
- YouTube — Kinoma Play is the best way to surf the world’s largest social video site on your phone. Play video (up-to-PC-quality!), upload, browse, search, favorite, rate, comment, share and more.
- Twitter [new!] — Forget about apps that just do Twitter, because Kinoma Play does it better. Update your status, tweet about music, videos and podcasts you love, and photo-blog your day with built-in TwitPic integration. Use built-in social search to see what the world’s saying about breaking news…or you!
- Facebook [new!] — The world’s largest social network is also the world’s largest photo sharing site, and Kinoma Play is now the easiest, most convenient way for users to update their status and instantly share the pictures that tell the story of their life.
- Last.fm [new!] — Automatically “scrobble” your music to share it on the world’s best social music site. Browse artist bios and pictures, find more artists like the ones you love, and connect with what your friends are listening to.
- MobiHand Store [new!] — Get Kinoma Play’s MobiHand Store app for the easiest way to buy Windows Mobile apps. You can check out screenshots and (when available) YouTube video demos before you buy, and even download free trials.
- Cloud media playback & sharing [new!] — Get 1GB of cloud storage free from Box-dot-net when you sign up in Kinoma Play — that’s enough space for over 250 songs! Stream your own media from the cloud, easily move media between your PC and phone, and share with friends.
- Kinoma Guide — It’s what the mobile industry calls a “built-in content discovery system”. We call it the “best of the web” on your phone. You’ll call it the quickest, easiest way to get on-demand access to terabytes of podcasts, music, audiobooks, streaming radio stations, webcams, and more. Plus, no monthly fees!
- Your favorite brands — Built-in support for Audible audiobooks, ClearChannel radio (iHeartRadio), Facebook, Flickr, Forbes, iDisk, Last.fm, Live365, SHOUTcast, CNN, MobiHand, NPR, Orb, Picasa, TUNED.mobi (The Stream Center), Twitter, YouTube and more.
- Stream from home – Install Orb (free!) on your home PC or media server to play your music, video, podcasts and pictures on-demand, wherever you are.
- My Media — Of course, Kinoma Play is also the best way to to play the music, video, pictures, podcasts, panoramas and audiobooks on your phone. It supports all popular formats, including MP3, MPEG-4 (MPEG-4 Video SP, H.264/AVC, AAC/aacPlus/aacPlus v2), 3GPP (same as MPEG-4), Flash Video (YouTube compatible), QuickTime Movie (same as MPEG-4), Windows Media 9 (WMV9, WMA9), JPEG and PNG.
Minimum Requirements:
- Windows Mobile 5 or later
Display Dimensions
240 x 320, 240 x 400, 320 x 240, 320 x 320, 400 x 240, 480 x 480, 480 x 640, 480 x 800, 640 x 480, 800 x 480
Operating System
WM5, WM6, WM6.1
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Isn’t it strange that the video game that I should be playing is the one that I don’t play? I am, of course, referring to the Wii Fit, the wondrous little white box that allows me to work on my balance and exercise until I get my Wii Fitness age down to my actual age.
You’d have to play the Wii Fit to get that, and now Wii players can get the Wii Fit Plus. This enhanced version will have new features, exercise, yoga moves, and more balancing games. I’m not certain if there is any downloadable content, but it certainly should.
The Wii Fit Plus allows players to customize their workouts to target specific areas of their bodies. So is this is the start of Dance Dance Revolution your @$$ off?
Just kidding, there. The Wii Fit Plus does allow the user to “fill specific intervals of time”. I am assuming that means that if you have only a few minutes, the Wii Fit Plus will accommodate you.
The Wii Fit Plus with the Wii board accessory should be available on October 4th for about $99. For users who already have a Wii Fit, you can just buy the Wii Fit Plus game for just $19.99.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
If there is one thing that I cannot stand about taking pictures, it is the time-consuming process of uploading them to social media sites. Lately, I have been doing a lot of video footage, and YouTube’s upload system, simple as it is, seems like a middleman just waiting to be eliminated.
Camera companies have been responding to this consumer needs with supposed “YouTube” ready features, but this is not enough. Social media addicts are demanding that their pictures be uploaded to their Facebook and MySpace sites through the camera itself.
This was the subject of a presentation by Cerevo at the CNET Japan Innovation Conference 2009. The company Cerevo plans to release the CerevoCam, a camera with Wi-Fi and 3G, designed so that photos can be easily put on their photo sharing site known as CerevoLife.
It promises to be so good that a consumer could take pictures late at night, then wirelessly transfer them to the Internet. By the time he or she logs onto the Internet in the morning, his or her photos will be on CerevoLife. There is room for about 5GB worth of free space, which is good for 4,000 pictures.
The user can also share pictures on Flickr, Twitter, Picasa, as well as other services. The CerevoCam plans to launch in a few months for about $210, but could launch earlier if things are going well.
Personally, I hope Cerevo perfects their process, and it is imitated by other camera companies. Anything that can relieve me of the USB cable to my computer is always welcome.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Those of you that love the FPS shooter games will fall even more in love with them with the Wireless Game Gun. As you can see by the You Tube video after the jump, someone has finally perfected a way of putting a screen on a motion controlled controller that resembles a military machine gun.
That someone is an engineer and inventor who is known all across the tech and gadget blogosphere as The Redneck Techie. The video shows him moving around the room and stalking in some “classic Tom Clancy” style with this unique gaming peripheral.
You will notice the cord that dangles from the gun and ends up in his pocket. That is apparently the batteries for the unit, which “were too big to fit into the gun”. Perhaps version 2.0 will not have this wire and really be wireless, but I don’t see it being any more annoying than the Wii-strap.
The Wireless Game Gun is Plug-and-Play compatible with Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and the PC, and maybe even for Macs. You can look into pre-ordering it here, but you might notice that the site looks a little antiquated. It is projected that the Wireless Game Gun will be available by Christmas, but there is no word on price as yet.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Today Microsoft will release their newest version of Windows Live Movie Maker. This version allows for greater editing of videos including standard definition (4:3) videos and high definition (16:9) video support.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Apple’s next-generation operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, is due for release Friday.
The company on Monday issued a press release detailing the operating system’s new features and improvements, which include the following:
- A more responsive Finder
- Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast
- Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup
- a Dock with Exposé integration
- QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video
- a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins.
Also, Snow Leopard will free up to 7GB of hard drive space for upgrading Mac users once installed, according to Apple.
Available for pre-order, the Snow Leopard upgrade costs $30 for current Mac OS X Leopard users, $10 for customers who purchased a Mac after June 8, and $170 for those using older versions of Mac OS X (i.e. Tiger, OS X 10.4).
See our previous coverage of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference for more tidbits on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Are you a business person or somebody who needs to keep tabs on the current time of the other timezones? Well, I’ve got good news for you. BlackBerry Storm has its very own Storm MultiClock which allows you to set the screen to show you 4 different timezones with different backgrounds for every clock you set!
Don’t you just hate it when you call somebody from the other side of the globe only to find out that it’s 3am and you just woke that person up from his restful sleep? Now you don’t have to be embarassed again by not knowing what the current time of the person you want to call is. Let’s just say that the Storm Multiclock of your Blackberry Storm is your own personal timekeeper.
Just remember though, the Storm Multiclock is made only for the BlackBerry Storm.
Features for the Storm Multiclock for the Blackberry Storm:
- 4 customizable analog clocks
- all BlackBerry-supported Timezones: over 80 in all!
- nearly 130 custom backgrounds featuring flags from around the world
- the ability to label each clock separately
- clock ’states’ are persistent
- multi-threaded (runs faster)
- ‘Click a Clock’ to change it!
- All available backrounds are posted on our website at blueinc.ca
Minimum Requirements:
- BlackBerry Storm 9500/9530
Display Dimensions
480 x 360
Operating System
4.7 Touch Screen
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
I was only playing with my friend’s Canon G10 last week, when I got word via CrunchGear that the Canon G11 is only a couple of weeks away!
Very impressed with the images that the Canon G10 was able to produce so can’t wait for the G11!
Been a big fan of Canon’s G series – I even still have a G3 at home somewhere 
Main Features of the Canon G11 Digital Camera:
- 10.0MP (strangely low, right?)
- 5x optical zoom – 28-140 mm
- 2.8-inch vari-angle PureColor System LCD
- RAW shooting mode
- HDMI out
- No HD video recording mode
- October release for US$499
Via CrunchGear
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
KissTunes. It’s website and a musical instrument.
… well, sort of. But for budding musicians who are geeks with a rock god fantasy, it’s a fairly cool concept. The Kiss Tunes website turns your laptop into an electronic keyboard, assigning white and black keys to the first two rows of the QWERTY Keyboard. With it, you can record songs, edit and share with others using the KissTunes website (registration is required).
With the simple click of your mouse on the keyboard, you can activate the interface. Then, as you play the QWERTY, the keys light in the KissTunes interface. This means that one can use KissTunes also as a learning tool. And with the recording option, students can hear their lessons on playback. Players also have the option to change instruments from Acoustic Grand Piano, Electric Piano, Steel Guitar and Kalimba instruments.
Check out this cool video of KissTunes in action.
Now, of course the utility doesn’t cover the entire range of a piano or keyboard, and doesn’t allow for writing down the songs you play, so more advanced musicians should try JamStudio, which mimmicks everything from guitar to piano to drums and everything in between.
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