DxO Labs, a French company with deep experience measuring cameras’ technical performance, has launched a Web site called DxOMark.com that features detailed data on the performance of the image sensor at the heart of many higher-end digital cameras.
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Lone travelers, vain photographers, or anyone too shy to ask someone to take their picture finally have a convenient way to include themselves in their photographs, thanks to Charles & Marie’s bottle cap tripod.
The $10 “gadget,” and I use the term loosely, fits (not screws) onto nearly any bottle top and a universal tripod adapter on the…

PC Magazine Volume 1, Issue 1, January 1982.(Credit: Magmaweb.com)
The Alleyinsider reports that dawn that after 26 years in circulation, Ziff Davis Publishing’s PC Magazine will issue its last print edition in January 2009. Going forward, all of its publishing efforts will shift to the online edition, …
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Hate the way you look in photos or the way you take photos? Here’s your chance to get some free help with both, assuming you’re in the New York City area Wednesday, November 19. Carson Kressley, former Queer Eye guy and current star …
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Colin Smith of PhotoshopCafe.com has released a proof-of-concept tutorial for Photoshop selection techniques using Configurator. A final version is due soon.(Credit: Adobe Systems)
After a slight delay, Adobe Systems has begun shipping Configurator, an application that lets humans create customized Photoshop CS4 control panels and share them with…

Pixel Bender enables a new range of effects sped by a PC's graphics chip. (Click to enlarge.)(Credit: Adobe Systems)
Adobe Systems on Monday launched a technology called Pixel Bender that brings new effects to Photoshop–and some new work for computers’ often-idle graphics chips.
Pixel Bender, presently an Adobe Labs project, is a new engine…