June 7, 2010 – 9:31 am | 2 Comments

A long time ago, in a world that only used film, a lens was developed to see the whole sky. Cloud studies for meteorological use prompted the invention of the fisheye lens. It wasn’t long …

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Enjoy Your HD Media on Your Iphone and Computer with Libox
August 30, 2010 – 6:30 am | 3 Comments
Enjoy Your HD Media on Your Iphone and Computer with Libox

Ran across a new app for both your computer and iPhone that will allow you to share and experience all high quality media for free! That means: no price tags and no limits on …

Review: ART TEXT v2.2.2 by Belight Software
July 28, 2010 – 7:45 am | One Comment
Review: ART TEXT v2.2.2 by Belight Software

Editor’s Note:  Wouldn’t you know? Just as we released this article, a newer 2.3 version with a vector editor has been released. Dr. Roach will review it at a later date.
Back in April, 2009 I …

Review: Pixelmator 1.6
July 19, 2010 – 10:22 am | 7 Comments
Review: Pixelmator 1.6

About a year and a half ago (January 7, 2009 to be exact) I wrote a review of Pixelmator as a potential light-weight image-editing software. At that time I found it a very useful and …

A Quick Look at EPS Quicklook
May 10, 2010 – 8:02 am | 2 Comments
A Quick Look at EPS Quicklook

Right now, all I want is to be able to quickly scan my folder of EPS files to find what I need. I know it’s in there. I just can’t remember the filename.
I have Leap. …

Ironman Central by Zumobi
May 6, 2010 – 12:11 pm | 6 Comments
Ironman Central by Zumobi

Have a little thing for the “Man in Red”? Wait no longer, die hard Marvel fans, with a little help from Zumobi, there’s an APP for that!
Although there are members of my household, dying to …

Topaz Labs Releases DeNoise v.4
May 6, 2010 – 10:51 am | 2 Comments
Topaz Labs Releases DeNoise v.4

One of my favorite software companies, Topaz Labs, has just released an upgrade to their DeNoise software, rasing version 3 to version 4. This is a free upgrade to version 3 owners and is a …

Millions Join the Evernote Brigade
May 4, 2010 – 9:00 am | One Comment
Millions Join the Evernote Brigade

Evernote has passed the next million-user milestone – 3 MILLION – since announcing 2 million in December.
Since reaching 2 million, Evernote has launched and revamped several new clients and product updates (including Windows desktop and …

Preview: Wordpress 3.0
April 28, 2010 – 7:36 am | One Comment
Preview: Wordpress 3.0

I was very excited when I read of Wordpress 3.0 multi-site network capabilities, so much that I had to install it to find out how it worked. How could I not? Wordpress 3.0 even has …

Restore from backup – bringing a Mac back with Time Capsule
April 22, 2010 – 9:30 am | No Comment
Restore from backup – bringing a Mac back with Time Capsule

Back at home my wife’s MacBook sat at her desk, left on overnight like she often did so that when she woke up in the morning a quick shake of the mouse would brighten the screen and allow her to check e-mail. From what I can tell in the hourly backup logs, at roughly the same time my aircraft lifted off the runway the 120GB hard disk in her MacBook crashed.

Photographs by Britt Stokes
April 22, 2010 – 9:09 am | One Comment

These Files sizes are large. Please be patient.
Taken in 2010 with The Infrared Conversion Digital Camera

Why I got rid of my HP b9180
April 19, 2010 – 7:46 am | One Comment
Why I got rid of my HP b9180

It’s a lovely printer, the HP b9180 is. When I finally understood the printer’s need for control and set the color management to “Printer control color”, the blacks came out smooth and velvety, the print always true to what I saw on the screen. Since that fateful discovery, I have yet to see a single horizontal track streaking across large fields of color in a print. Image quality is superb. So, why would I get rid of such a great machine?

Evernote for your iPad
April 15, 2010 – 8:14 am | No Comment
Evernote for your iPad

Okay Mac addicts, if you’re still debating the necessity of Apple’s new iPad, I know how you feel. Heart telling you “GO GET IT”, head asking “DO YOU REALLY NEED THIS?”
Well, playing for the …

Keeping Up With Google: Speed a Factor in Page Rank
April 13, 2010 – 7:12 am | 3 Comments
Keeping Up With Google: Speed a Factor in Page Rank

I was reading my morning news website yesterday when I ran across a link to an article entitled “It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor” posted at SearchEngineland.com .
It seems that …

First Look At CS5
April 12, 2010 – 12:12 pm | One Comment
First Look At CS5

Creative Suite 5 is out, and it’s got bells and whistles. I am hesitant to call it a game changer. Just better bells and whistles. Here are some highlights that immediately jumped out at me:

Photoshop, Premiere, and Aftereffects are now 64 bit. Snow Leopard users should see an improvement in performance as a result, especially in video preview and playback …

Slidepress- A Fully Customizable, Dynamic Media Player for Wordpress
March 2, 2010 – 10:35 am | 5 Comments
Slidepress- A Fully Customizable, Dynamic Media Player for Wordpress

Slidepress is just the latest offering from Dominey Design, a web development company in Atlanta. Their main focus- AKA obsession- is Slideshowpro- a quick and easy and versatile Flash-based slideshow application  available as a Flash …

Lexmark and Evernote Join Forces
February 26, 2010 – 4:53 pm | One Comment
Lexmark and Evernote Join Forces

Can office life get any easier?  I’m sure it could, but this gets us one step closer – for sure! This is definitely a “smart solution” for getting rid of those pesky meeting notes, sketches …