Jul 19

I made a last minute trip to NYC on Friday and spent today filming all over the city with a Sony EX1 for fun. Pretty cool camera and the interval (time-lapse) mode is incredible too, very easy and the results are great. When I get back on Monday, I’ll post some of the footage.
If anyone at Sony is reading, feel free to send me some free stuff
Thanks in advanced.
Jul 17
David Pogue on his New York Times blog wrote today about a disturbing situation regarding Amazon, the Kindle and George Orwell: due to some sort of problem with its U.S. publisher, Amazon zapped the previously purchased e-book from the Kindles of its purchasers, apparently crediting their accounts in the process.
Writes Pogue:
This is ugly for all kinds of reasons. Amazon says that this sort of thing is “rare,” but that it can happen at all is unsettling; we’ve been taught to believe that e-books are, you know, just like books, only better. Already, we’ve learned that they’re not really like books, in that once we’re finished reading them, we can’t resell or even donate them. But now we learn that all sales may not even be final.
As…
Jul 17
Any parents concerned about children’s safety is going to keep an eye on what their kids do online — be it to protect them from predators, keep them from visiting inappropriate Web sites, prevent downloading of harmful software, or some combination of all three. Computer security company Symantec recently introduced Internet watchdog software, OnlineFamily.Norton, aimed at assisting in the …
Jul 17
Beamz Interactive, an interactive music products company that develops innovative musical instruments and music software to enable people of all ages and skill levels to play music, today unveiled Beamz Studio Software at the Summer NAMM Conference .
Jul 15
In addition to today’s new camera announcements, Samsung announced three new camcorders, including the ultracompact HMX-U10, which is pitted directly against the popular Flip UltraHD.