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- Why you should shoot RAW format for your holiday photos
- Log in?Seems like you have to log in to https://ssl.cnb.cnet.com/blogs/digitalcameras/wp-admin/post-new.php?tag=col1;post-2272RE: Why you should shoot RAW format for your holiday photosYes.. shoot in RAW format, purchase bigger SD cards everyone... I am sure you will be able to tell the difference between those RAW and JPG photos cause I KNOW you...
- Tags: camera, RAW-format, JPG, raw file, holiday photo
- Discussion threads 2009-12-04
- Efficiency, sustainability, and digital natives accelerate paper's path to digital
- As people spend more time consuming information digitally at home and at work, reliance on paper continues to decrease. But how far are we across the Digital Divide? In 1975, George E. Pake, then head of Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center, predicted that in 1995 his office would be...
- Tags: Word-processing, Sustainability, Whiteboard, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., iWorkers, Productivity, Sheri McLeish
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- Survey says buyers looking for smaller HDTVs this holiday season
- Price, Price, Price!It all about the price. I bought a low end replacement 32" 720p HDTV from Wal-Mart (with 20% Bing Cash Back on top of the Black Friday Discount) for one reason only. Price! When the economy turns around and employment looks good I'll think about buying a 50+"...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, HDTV, Survey says buyer, Survey Says, TV, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-12-04
- Popular Science, Computerworld, MIT Technology Review sign on for Plastic Logic Que business e-reader
- When is SOMEBODY going to tell us the price?Yeah, yeah... everybody talks about this Que. Until I see the price, who cares? Rather than giving us dozens of preview announcements, maybe SOMEBODY should find out how much it's going to cost and report on THAT.RE: Popular Science, Computerworld,...
- Tags: Que, business e-reader, Plastic Logic, Popular Science, Technology Review, Computerworld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Pre-Copenhagen name-calling
- Columbian Coal?I followed your link, and sure enough...mountains of coal are imported from Columbia. What weird twist of economics makes this possible? The US is about made of coal, for heaven's sake. Any serious explanations out there? sadly Harry Canada PM is the heir for the king...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- 11 open source business models
- You are looking at it sideways.It's never as simple as you make it seem. Things usually can't be broken into neat little lists which are really just stereo types.From Wikipedia: Business Model: "A business model describes the rationale of how an [b]organization[/b] creates, delivers, and captures value[1] -...
- Tags: Strategy, business model, open source, EULA Ware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- Are you using Joomla! yet? Why the heck not?
- And how does Google Sites compare with this?Google Sites is available to both Gmail and Google Apps users.Good work!! And of course you should pay somebody to host it, so as to not waste tax payer money hosting it yourself.And, of course, you can run Joomla on a reliable platform!...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, cloud computing, Joomla, Google Inc., Google Sites, Joomla!
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- Will the GPU become the new CPU?
- No mention of OpenCL?Oh well...Not right now, but will come soon.Not right now, but maybe will come soon.The current generation of GPUs are fantastically powerful, BUT:-Current GPUs use a technology called "stream processing," which essentially pre-loads the instructions into the processors and starts streaming data.This is unlike CPUs, where both...
- Tags: Processors, GPU, CPU, NVidia Corp., OpenCL, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-27
- Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?
- Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- E-Business Suite Spotlight Video
- 3 Minutes with Free Tool Can Save Thousands! The EBS ROI Tool quickly points out the benefits of upgrading to EBS R12 on IBM hardware. Uncover improved productivity and better value. See how you can improve decision-making while reducing your total cost of ownership through process efficiencies...
- Tags: Video, E-business, IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Marketing, Internet
- Webcasts 2009-11-25
- S10 Password Vault 3.1 (Windows)
- Store all your usernames/passwords and other account info on your PC with S10 Password Vault, strongly encrypted yet easily accessible using a single master password. It can auto-type the appropriate information for you in any website or program, without having to switch between windows as with copy/paste. Also features launching...
- Tags: Password, Microsoft Windows, S10 Software, S10 Password Vault
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Garmin Nuvi 1690
- Garmin made a pretty big splash last year when it debuted the Nuvi 880, its first-ever Internet-connected portable navigation device PND featuring MSN Direct data service. With MSN Direct scheduled to go offline in the very near future, Garmin had to create something to fill this void, so it partnered...
- Tags: Garmin Nuvi, Garmin Ltd., data service, portable navigation device, suction-cup, cradle
- Product reviews 2009-11-24
- The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?
- You can't be a good consultant if you can't even mention MSIf you really think MS is irrelevant in cloud computing then you have some serious bias issues to work out.The fact that throughout your entire blog you can't even get yourself to mention MS or Azure even once is...
- Tags: Virtualization, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, cloud computing battleground, Microsoft Corp., cloud computing, Azure, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- HP vs. Dell: Showdown at the Windows 7 upgrade corral
- Well, the great thing is all the competition. I like to see Acer squeezing them both from below, and of course competing with each other. Of course also great to see all the pressure on MS to innovate and lower prices.Google Chrome_OS will be hard to beatWell, with Google_Chrome_OS it...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Windows 8, Microsoft Windows, XPS, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for good
- RE: Let's get rid of usernames and passwords for goodIf you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. -Bruce SchneierCommon sense & best practicesFirst off social networking sites are a DISASTER waiting to happen, private data into a...
- Tags: password, security
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years
- Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, information technology, comeback, profit margin, job, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- iTablet goes OLED,??bumped until late 2010
- $2000? I doubt it.Apple puts themselves in a "premium" price range, but $2000 for a 10" tablet? Even they're not THAT crazy.No ThanksDon't need or want either, waste of space...If I want real gaming, I'd rather play real games on my PS3 or Wii on my flat screen; or on...
- Tags: SunSHINE, iTablet, organic light-emitting diode, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology
- AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...
- Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- IBM researchers speed up medical diagnostic testing via chip
- A step in the right directionIf this can provide reliable quantitative values and isn't too expensive, it would be a great asset. Being able to get a full initial blood workup in minutes using this technology could reduce some of the cost of health care by allowing a physician to...
- Tags: Semiconductors, speed-Up, chip, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
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