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Sony's panorama-shooting DSC-HX1 camera handled on video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Finalized USB 3.0 tests just months away, consumer devices set for next year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Neothings LightSpider takes HDMI signals 300 feet over fiber originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The better the deal compared to other retailers, the higher the deal score Gazaro assigns. The site is very electronics-oriented right now, with the majority of deals categories like televisions, computers, video cameras, and so on. One of the nicer aspects of using Gazaro to hunt for deals is that the price you see is the no-effort-involved price—no rebates, smooth-talking, or animal sacrifices required. Gazaro just compiles the prices from the company sites without factoring in rebates or your-mileage-may-vary tricks.
On top of the basic ticket price aggregation, Seat Karma has seating maps for over 1600 venues—similar, but more comprehensive than previously reviewed SeatQuest. Of those venues, 1300 of them are live maps where the available seats are mapped out with markers to give you an idea of where you'll be relative to the action. Out of the live maps, there are currently 140 venues with actual photos taken from the stands in various positions throughout the venues to give you an actual perspective on how you'll see the court or stage. For venues that have more complicated seating arrangements than simple stadium tiers, such as small theaters, Seat Karma has 3D-style seating maps to show how the various balconies mezzanine levels overlap.
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/s3IL5w8t52w/six-best-video-editing-applications
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Earlier this week we asked you what video editing software you thought was best. You responded in force, and we're back to share the top six tools Lifehacker readers use to edit their videos. While we normally limit the Hive Five strictly to five options, given that several of the options here cost more than a used car, we've expanded this Hive in order to provide a balanced spread. In this particular Hive Five, we can't promise cheap and open source, but we can promise that the contenders are—price tags and all—worthy of inclusion. A final note regarding pricing: many of the video editors can only be purchased as part of a bundle of software. For example, Adobe Premiere is part of the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium bundle, and also includes, among other software, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
Now that you've seen the contenders for top video editor, it's time to log you! r vote:< /p>
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If you have something to add—especially if you voted Other—sound off in the comments below to share your video editing tips with your fellow readers.
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Photo by Kevin N. Murphy.
Over at the photography site Digital Photography School, they've put together a list of best practices for avoiding the boring portrait blues. They all focus on breaking out of your default camera-pointed-right-at-subject's-face/subject-starring-down-camera-like-hungry-wolf setup. The photograph I grabbed from Flickr here is an example of tip #7, introducing a prop into the photo. Another way to go about injecting interest into your photos is to take a well-established rule of composition and break it:
The Rule of Thirds is one that can be effective to break - placing your subject either dead center can sometimes create a powerful image - or even creative placement with your subject right on the edge of a shot can sometimes create interesting images.
While the tips they offer are all about composition, don't neglect the hardware side of things. Check out previously reviewed list of photography hacks from David Pogue to increase your photographic arsenal cheaply. If you have a favorite portrait to share, link it and explain its craft in the comments. Photo by Gianmaria.
Whether a file has been indexed by Google's search servers or not, paste in the link to the document, and Google Translate will convert it to HTML, translate it, and present you with the page in a handy viewer. You usually have to know the original language to help Translate get started, and Google Operating System's Alex noted that it only gave back the first nine pages of a PDF he gave it. For technical documents and other works you need a quick, mostly-legible read on, though, Google Translate's document tool is a killer app.
This one is creepy: The new Shapeways' Photoshaper is the latest "printing" technology, turning any home photographs into a 3D plate which—when looked through light—will reveal the original image with a spooky ghost effect.
Photoshaper can be used by anyone with a digital camera and an Internet connection. Basically, the service will take any digital photograph you can send them using their web site, creating a 3D image out of it.
First, to create the 3D information, Photoshaper analyzes the photograph, converting it to black and white. It then uses the resulting picture as a guide to create the 3D layers: Darker tones correspond to thicker parts of the plate, while lighter tones correspond to thinner parts.
The plate is made then using a 3D printer, which lays down multiple layers of resin like an inkjet printer. The resin layers solidify instantly, allowing for more to be printed on top, constructing the 3D out of multiple paper-thin surfaces.
The result is a slab of white resin with a weird, rough surface. When you look at it straight on, it resembles a negative of the original image, but much less defined than a real negative. However, when you look at it through the light, the image appears magically in front of you, with a spooky effect.
At least it is spooky for me. I don't know about you, but this freaks me out. [Sh rugged apeways]
Currently 12,000 to 16,000 2-liter soda bottles are being collected to fill in the twin hulls of their Plastiki vessel. Each bottle with be pressurized using dry ice powder that will sublimate into carbon dioxide gas. If all goes as planned, the vessel will carry four crewmembers on a 11,000 mile journey starting this April from San Francisco to Sydney only to be broken down and recycled at the end of the trip. Apparently, only the masts of the ship are metal, leaving the remaining 90% as recycled material.
Sure it's dangerous, but the design is obviously more professional (and less risky) than the paper bottle boat that his 22-year old predecessor cobbled together with his father. My guess is that it the outcome will be much better this time around. [CNN and Architecture for Humanity]
The short story is that in most cases, Parallels runs a solid 14-20 percent faster than Fusion, except in the rather limited scenario of running Windows XP 32-bit on two virtual processors.
MacTech's tests are ridiculously comprehensive, spanning multiple machines with tons of different applications—the whole them took a couple months—so if you want the full, chart-heavy breakdown, head over there: [MacTech]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/09/apple-netbook-in-q3/
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Apple touch-screen netbook in Q3? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Seagate demos world's first SATA 6Gbps hard disk as speed-freaks swoon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Philips Master LED light bulb set for US release in July originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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AMD's ATI FirePro 2450 quad-display card originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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