October 29, 2003
Photo Printer Review
There are more and more choices for producing hard copies from digital image files. The development of card sized photo printers is intriguing. They use a dye-sublimation thermal transfer printing system to produce digital photo prints.
Here's a photo printer review of the Canon CP-10 Card Photo Printer from Digital Photography Review.
October 23, 2003
New iBook for Location Photographers
Apple just announced their new line of iBooks. They seem perfect for
digital photographers. Aside from the smaller screen, 14 inches versus 15 inches, the specs on the new iBooks are better than those of my 15" powerbook Ti 400. My powerbook serves me well in all my digital photography location work. For the difference in price I could live with a 1 inch smaller screen.
The world’s best-loved consumer portable gets an impressive makeover with a superfast PowerPC G4 processor, a new architecture, a slot-loading optical drive and enhanced wireless networking capabilities.
October 17, 2003
Wireless Digital Photo Frame
This product has piqued my curiosity. It is a digital picture frame with a wi-fi connection built in. Load photo files into your main workstation, and then broadcast them to frames located throughout your home or business.
Wi-Fi Networking News has more about the wireless digital photo frame.
For a more standard device, Vialta offers a non wi-fi digital picture frame.
VistaFrame is a digital picture frame offering consumers a simple and easy way to display their digital pictures anytime, directly from a memory card.
Pricing Trend Data On Hard Disks
Wes Felter at Hack The Planet has a link to pricing trend data on hard disks.
Right now, CD-Rs cost less per GB than hard disks, but it occurs to me that this might change as soon as next year. Mike Dahlin has pricing trend data on hard disks , but I haven't seen any for CD-Rs. I guess it's mostly irrelevant since DVD-R is 3x cheaper than CD-R and 9x cheaper than hard disk.
October 15, 2003
Cable Modem Speed Test
Broadbandreports.com has several links to servers that offer DSL and Cable Modem Speed Test.
The test will tell you exactly how fast your upload and download speed is. It also will show you how it compares with other types of service.
