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Continue reading →: Noise Ninja, Neat Image and DxO
“Noise Ninja”:http://www.picturecode.com/ and “Neat Image”:http://neatimage.com get frequent mentions from the top photography sites for reducing “digital noise” Another often used tool is “DxO”:http://dxo.com which corrects the imperfections of particular lenses digitally. They have a computer model for popular pro lenses and thus can correct lense problems. Pretty amazing really what…
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Continue reading →: Griffin iFill
For $20, “Griffin iFill”:http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/ifill/ will fill up your ipod when you recharge it overnight with any of a set of FM stations. A pretty good idea, it makes some sense as a usage scenario, but seems like you’d rather get news when it happens rather than overnight. Probably good for…
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Continue reading →: Rockbox
Rockbox – Open Source Jukebox Firmware. Wow how cool. This is an open source firmware replacement for iPods as well as certain models of iRiver (H100 and H300), iAudio X5 and Archos. Kind of amazing folks have done this. “Cnet”:http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-6513844-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd says that it isn’t flashy, but has lots of features…
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Continue reading →: Hard time to buy…
“Anandtech”:http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2753 does another Buyer’s Guide. As he says, it is a hard time to recommend buying a desktop because both AMD and Intel are changing things so quickly. In a few weeks, AMD launches their AM2 platform. It isn’t any faster, but uses much cheaper DDR2 memory, so you should…
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Continue reading →: Cable economics
Interesting to see how these niche sports folks are doing in terms of viewership on cable: * “OLN and TdF”:http://www.tdfblog.com/2005/07/sunday_tour_cov.html. They got 1.7M viewers or 418K households which was a 2.09 household rating. So its about 1M viewers for household rating.* “NBA and NHL”:http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6329685.html. The NHL got a 0.3 household…
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Continue reading →: AGEIA PhysX Card
“Anandtech”:http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2751 reviews a physics acceleration card. This takes the physics modeling in games, (you know, shoot a bullet, hit a guy and how does he fall?) and puts a dedicated processor in to do that. It’s for the ultimate gaming geeks and requires specialized games to take advantage. The just…
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Continue reading →: Intel Core Duo on Desktops
Well, as noted before, the hotest processor right now is the Intel Core Duo and the motherboard folks are adapting their desktop designs to put it on the desktop. The true desktop Core Duos don’t ship until later this year, so it’s interesting to get the performance Intel is seeing…
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