2005 May

The latest addition to Casio’s expanding range of digital cameras is the Exilim Pro EX-P505. As a hybrid digicam it combines a 5-megapixel digital still camera with a video camera which is capable of shooting extended video scenes with high image quality. The camera features a 5x optical zoom lens (38-190mm eq.), a large 2inch […]

Robert Clark is taking pictures with a Sony Ericsson 5710a 1.3 megapixel cell phone.
With sponsorship from Sony Ericsson and
American Photo Magazine, he will travel the U.S. and Canada. The images
are posted in a flash animation gallery.

Boasting up to 80X read and write speeds, Corsair’s new Compact Flash and Secure Digital memory cards guarantee to perform to specifications.
Fremont, CA (May 25, 2005) - Corsair Memory, Inc., a worldwide leader in high performance memory and cooling products for enthusiasts and overclockers, today is pleased to announce expansion of its popular flash memory […]

Equipped with this new technology, Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express will now offer OEM customers multi-session burning and improved read compatibility.
(May 24, 2005) - Nero, leaders in digital media technologies, announced today that its applications, Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express, now support Layer-Jump Recording (LJR) of dual-layer DVD-R media, thus permitting multi-session burning, […]

DVD recorders are one of the more convenient ways to time shift television viewing. With a set-and-forget recording process very similar to a VCR, recording your favorite show to DVD is a no-brainer. Things become a little more complicated when you want to take all the episodes from one show and put them on the […]

Media player companies aren’t as sneaky as they used to be about trying to grab every possible file association each time the player was opened out of necessity. These days you might get nagged to be sure you don’t want the player to overthrow your audio and video collection, but subversion is now left for […]

With a little one on the way and my increased media creation, I decided to dump my 2.1 Megapixel camera and jump up to the 7.1 range. After looking at many Web sites to determine my best tack, including Digital Photography Review , CNET, and www.digitalphotography.com, I was down to two brands: Canon or Nikon. […]

I am a news junkie. I love MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and NPR. I just don’t sit in front of a TV all day. I have been hunting for a good source for streaming news so I can keep up on things audibly rather than relying on the news channel RSS feeds. […]

Source Code Management Leader Creates Breakthrough Tool For Graphic Artists And Developers.
Irvine, CA - May 17, 2005 - ionForge Company, a leading provider of next-generation software configuration management tools, announced a major advancement in Evolution, their source control and asset management solution. Evolution’s new Image Difference tool allows developers to detect even small changes […]

Create the podcast you want to listen to. Podcasting puts the listener in control allowing them to tune in when they want, where they want, listening to whatever happens to turn them on at the moment. What’s driving this audio revolution is a dedicated group of publishers, delivering compelling audio programming on demand. Podcasting Starter […]

One of the bigger annoyances I find with downloading audio and video from Web sites is the default players always trying to automatically play the files instead of letting me download them to my hard drive. It’s bad enough media players are constantly battling for control of my media, but Windows Media Player, iTunes, Real […]

Worth a Listen focuses exclusively on independent artists and songwriters whose music has emotional impact.
Roberto Magris is a highly respected Italian jazz pianist and composer with an extensive 15-album discography. I recently had the pleasure of listening to his latest release with the Europlane Orchestra, Check-in, featuring Tony Lakatos on soprano and tenor sax. When […]

Tunesmith is hitting the road in search of the, “Best Song” and “Best Songwriting Team” and will be at the historic Clermont Inn May 20-22, 2005, featuring special guests Charlie Craig, Marc-Alan Barnette, and Michael Peterson. Sign up at the Tunesmith website.