Canon has released their new crop of cameras. There is some interesting updates, but sadly they seem to have cranked the MP up to 14. Will have to see how this affects the noise and overall image quality. It is nice to see they finally have 720p video with a stereo microphone. It would be nice if they could have started the lens a little wider open than 28mm, but with 14x optical zoom it could be an interesting look.
Another interesting announcement is their updated d-SLR the T2i. Less than a year ago they released the T1i to replace the XSi. With entry level d-SLR’s like this, it’s hard to figure out why anyone (other than the top of the top photographers) would need anything more. the T2i offers 1080p video, 18MP and a whole heap of other internal enhancements.
I think I need a new laptop case. Twelvesouth are making some damn sexy laptop cases. (update: $34 shipping?! No dice.)
The idea of geotagging pictures has been something I’ve written about a lot in the past. I really like the idea of being able to go to a location and see a collection of photos that show the changes in a place over time. Flickr has just done a little post that shows this combination of old and new photos in one shot on their blog. It is a really amazing effect.
Photo by Jasone Powell
There is many examples of these photos on flickr, and many are captured in a gallery called Looking into the Past.
I was a huge fan of pinball during my high school years in the mid to late 90′s. I remember going to the mall for lunch and playing The Adams Family pinball game. We left many a free play in that game when we had to leave to get back for afternoon classes. It was my favourite pinball game and the one I was the best at. I’d love to find a digital version, or a live machine someday. With the detailed game information presented here I bet I could do even better at that game. In contrast, another mall also had a copy of the game, but they had their table set at a steeper incline and it made the game play entirely differently (obviously). I really sucked when I played there.
There is a wonderful article that explains the economics of the pinball machine, and also looks at their eventual downfall in the face of video games.
Jim Whitelaw’s daughter bought an iPod Touch to play games with, and Jim placed some allowance money on a gift card for her to buy games from the iTunes store. Accept she can’t. The iTunes store in Canada does not allow one to use gift cards to buy games or applications. I ran into the exact same problem a while back when I tried to use a free gift card to buy a $10 app, and all of a sudden saw that my credit card had been charged. I wouldn’t have bought the app if I’d have known. Sure enough some digging into the terms listed online I found that I couldn’t buy applications with my gift card, but one shouldn’t have to dig through the small print to learn that info. It really should be right on the card (this card is good for music only).
Jim Whitelaw wasn’t going to just let this one go, so he set off to get to the bottom of this Apple stance. His MPP and the Minister of Industry are now involved. His story can be followed on his blog.
Apple released a 2GB 2TB Time Capsule recently that pushes the price of the 1TB down to $329 CAD. With the cost of a good 1TB HDD costing around $110+ at Future Shop and Best Buy this router just became a really good deal. I wonder if the old 500GB ones will get reduced to clear.
An interesting graphic that depicts where TV broadcasts are in the solar system. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but it’s still a cool thing to look at. I once read that these broadcasts won’t actually go on forever, as they end up just turning into noise and can’t be read anymore.
via Abtruse Goose
The most complete topographic maps of the planet earth have been created using instruments aboard the decade-old Terra satellite. The new map covers latitudes between 83° north and 83° south, resolving patches of land as narrow as 30 metres across. The data is available online but I haven’t figured out how to use or view it yet. There are some more images here.
Word on the street is that Zack Morris from Bayside High (not Mark-Paul Gosselaar) was on Jimmy Fallon last night. Sounds like something I need to check out.
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