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Nikon Coolpix S4000 Point & Shoot Digital Camera – 12 Megapixel – 3″ Active Matrix TFT Color LCD (Plum)
Nov 19th
The Nikon Coolpix S4000 Digital Camera (Plum) produces images with up to 12.0 megapixels of resolution, and incorporates a 4x wide-angle zoom lens. The 27 to 108mm lens allows you to take large groups in a tight space, and also capture subjects in the distance. Shooting in low light is not a problem with Nikon’s exclusive 4-way VR Image Stabilization technology that utilizes Electronic VR Image Stabilization, along with the cameras high sensitivity equivalent of ISO 3200, Motion Detection, and the exclusive Best Shot Selector (BSS). This ensures that your photos will always look great – regardless of lighting conditions or subject movement. For difficult image situations the camera offers 16 different scene modes.
Images to art and a galaxy in turmoil: iPhone apps of the week
Oct 29th
This week’s apps include a unique image manipulation app that turns pictures into art and a vast galaxy exploration game where you pilot a ship and defend the human race.
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Olympus Stylus 7010 12MP Digital Camera with 7x Optical Zoom (Pink) $89. …
Oct 29th
FOR TODAY ONLY, Dell Home & Home Office has the Olympus Stylus 7010 12MP Digital Camera with 7x Optical Zoom (Pink) for just $89.99 with free shipping. That’s $23 less than the next lowest price we could find on this model.
The Olympus Stylus 7010 features a 12MP image resolution, 7x optical zoom and is the smallest camera with a 7x optical zoom and 2.7-inch LCD screen. Users have given this camera good reviews.
How iOS backups can devour your SSD
Oct 27th
If you use an SSD — storage space is a precious asset, and you have to manage it wisely. Today I recovered 50GB of space on my SSD with the help of Tjark Derlien’s excellent (and free) Disk Inventory X which shows you what’s filling your SSD (or hard drive) in an organized, color-coded graphic.
If you’re rocking a large hard drive (like the 750GB and 1TB mechanisms available for the MacBook) then you’re relatively immune to the problem. SSD owners, on the other hand, need to be especially aware of space management issues and gigabyte-hogging applications. No one know this better than MacBook Air owners.
My problems began when I started getting “startup disk full” warnings and when my VMWare image would force suspend for lack of space. I immediately fired up Disk Inventory X to find the source  of the bloat and here’s what I saw:
As I was mousing around in the big blue area in the upper left I noticed that a full fifth of my SSD (50GB out of 250GB) was being clogged with a folder located here:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
50GB!
(That other massive chunk on the right in red, incidentally, is my VMWare Fusion image for Windows 7.)
After scrambling to delete files the last time I ran out of space — only to save a couple gigabytes — I discovered the mother load.
The MobileSync/Backup folder is used to store your iOS backups. Every time your iPhone, iPad or iPod makes a backup via iTunes, it’s stored in the MobileSync/Backup folder. If you have a 32GB iPhone and a 32GB iPad, this can add up fast. If you frequently backup and restore your iOS devices (I’m talking to you, developers) the Backup folder can get unwieldy pretty fast.
The Apple prescribed way to move MobileSync Backups (as outlined in knowledge base article HT1766) is to select iTunes > Preferences > Devices and delete unneeded backups.
I took another approach. I simply archived the entire Backups folder to the secondary 750GB OptiBay HDD I installed in my 15-inch MacBook Pro and deleted it from my SSD.
Boom, 50GB recovered.
I made sure to make fresh backups my iPhone and iPad after doing deleting the folder, but I managed to trim my Backup folder from 50 to 2GB simply by archiving the old backups.
Apparently, there’s no way to make iTunes write the backups to another disk, but I’m looking into that…
Logitech G19 Programmable Gaming Keyboard with Color Display $108. …
Oct 25th
The G19 includes a color GamePanel LCD that displays game stats, system information, VOIP communication data, video playback, image slideshows. It also features user-selectable character backlighting color that lets you personalize the keyboard. This keyboard has earned excellent reviews from owners.
Amazon has the Logitech G19 Programmable Gaming Keyboard with Color Display for just $108.80 with free shipping, after rebate. That’s $78 less than the next lowest price we could find on this model.
Is this the new Nook Color?
Oct 24th
A tipster has sent CNET a link to a page on the Barnes & Noble website that shows an accessory for the Nook Color. On the page, there’s an image of a device that may be the new Nook.
Nikon Coolpix S3000 12MP 4X Digital Camera w/ VR Image Stabilization (REFURB) $84.99 at Newegg
Oct 18th
Apple bringing iOS ‘Back to the Mac’ on Oct 20?
Oct 14th
Apple has sent invitations to select media outlets, inviting them to âsee whatâs new for the Mac on October 20, including a sneak peek of the next major version of Mac OS X.â
As opposed to Apple’s recent raft of iOS-based announcements, this one will mostly be about Mac OS 10.7. The new version of OS X will apparently be referred to as “Lion” if the not-so-subtle image on the invitation is any indication.
And what’s with the use of “Back to the Mac” anyway? Is Apple just being cute or is it a not-so-subtle hint that MobileMe’s “Back to my Mac” remote-access technology could be getting an upgrade?
CrunchGear’s got a good rundown of the current Apple hardware rumors, including touch-based iMacs and MacBooks, a revved MacBook Air and CPU/GPU bumps including the Nvidia Optimus. While we probably won’t see a new iPhone, iPod or iPad next Wednesday, that doesn’t mean that we won’t see iOS at the event.
I love Devin Coldeway’s theory that iOS could find its way into Mac OS X in the form of an iOS dashboard replacing the current (and disastrously unusable) Dashboard. It would be a great way for Apple to capitalize on the success of the App Store and begin to converge the two platforms.
While the announcement of an updated version of Mac OS X might not seem exciting initially, the prospect of touch-based Macs iOS integration should pique the interest of developers and users alike.
You’re the CEO: how would you converge OS X and iOS?
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 (gray)
Oct 12th
As long as image softness doesn’t bother you, the fast-shooting Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 is a quite capable camera for taking photos under a variety of conditions without much effort from the user.
Sony Cyber-shot TX9 (gray)
Oct 8th
As long as image softness doesn’t bother you, the fast-shooting Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX9 is a quite capable camera for taking photos under a variety of conditions without much effort from the user.
