Staying for a bit on photo topic today, Scalado introduced “Remove” – “…the world’s first object removal innovation in a mobile device”. Looks quite impressive:
From press release:
Remove is a technology that automatically highlights and removes any unwanted object from a captured photo. It is the world’s first Object removal software to be released on a mobile device.
Tags: Cell phones, Gadgets, iPhone, New products, Photography, Photos, Video, YouTube
Adobe has been teasing us for a bit now with latest and greatest features of upcoming Adobe Photoshop CS6. Today, Adobe posted series of videos on their YouTube channel previewing Content Aware move, Dashed and Dotted lines, performance update in Liquify filter and overall, and new Camera Raw 7. Presonally, I think move to darker interface is a good move, working with Apple Aperture, I noticed the difference darker interface makes on overall feel of an image you are working on.
Here is Content Aware Move, some stuff is not a big deal, but some are more impressive.
Performance enhancement is HUGE! My favorite is Background Save – no more waiting to save one image to switch to another.
Interesting preview on Camera Raw that works with cellphone image.
Finally, something that designers asked for a long time, some vector improvements: dashed and dotted lines.
Tags: Adobe, CS6, Gadgets, New products, Photography, Photos, Photoshop
I’m really suspicious to all things said and showed on the internet, and this video is not exception. Somebody please pinch me as this video from 1994 talks about electronic newspapers.
We see newspapers going to e-publishing thanks to success of tablet device, iPad from Apple in particular. But this video talks about future more than 15 years. Just to put this into perspective: 7 years before release of Mac OS X, 5 years before release of Mac OS 9, 3 years before release of Mac OS 8, and a year before release of Windows 95. Read »
Tags: Apple, Cell phones, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, New products, Prototype, Video, YouTube
This is pretty cool. By using front camera, app developers can create apps that ‘simulate’ 3D, i.e. glasses-free. Front facing camera tracks face position, esentially what angle is looking at the iPad, and adjust picture on the screen.
We track the head of the user with the front facing camera in order to create a glasses-free monocular 3D display. Such spatially-aware mobile display enables to improve the possibilities of interaction. It does not use the accelerometers and relies only on the front camera.
Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay
Here is video:
From MacStories
Well, I’m sorry I lied to all of you when I said that iPad would be released in Canada. Seems that “Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May.”
Here is full press release:
April 14, 2010
Apple Media Advisory
Apple today released the following statement:
Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April.
Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason—the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far.
Press Contacts:
Natalie Harrison
Apple
harri@apple.com
(408) 862-0565
Natalie Kerris
Apple
nat@apple.com
(408) 974-6877
Really Apple??? Well it means that come “late April” I’m traveling across the board to get my hands on 3G Model from Uncle Sam.
Tags: Apple, iPad, New products
Two weeks ago I wrote about this iPhone Dock which turns your lovely iPhone into a desk phone.
Well Engadget reports that it was spotted in the wild at China Sourcing Fair.
Following are pictures from Engadget Chinese
Here is also video of it in action:
Tags: Cell phones, Gadgets, iPhone, New products
Engadget has a story about Scrabble App for iPad and Tile Rack App for iPhones. All three devices, once tethered, become old school Scrabble game.
From Engadget:
We just paired up a couple iPhones (running the free Tile Rack app) and joined in with the iPad over Bluetooth or WiFi (the app makes it unclear as to which particular wireless tech is doing the honors at the moment, but both work) and in moments we were swiping tiles up to the iPad with the best of them.
I knew even before iPad was released that it will find various applications in real world beside ‘big iPhone’ and book reader.
Here is one of the examples over at Sightglass Coffee Shop in San Francisco. Accompanied by Square headphone jack credit card appliance this business turned ‘big iPhone’ into point-of-sale system.
There will be even more opportunities to incorporate iPad into everyday life of not just business but also consumers. Can’t wait for 3G model…
Tags: Apple, Gadgets, iPad, New products
According to iPad in Canada website, Apple Store employees are advised to not take holidays during weekend of April 24th. Does that mean iPad would be released as promised by Apple ‘late April’ in Canada? I certainly hope so.
If it’s to be released, it would make sense that all three big cell phone providers would jump onboard: Telus, Bell and Rogers. Hopefully they would follow AT&T steps with availabilityof 3G unlimited data plan. On the other side, iPad 3G might not be available in Canada at that time with release sometime later, which will prompt shoppers travel across the board as iPad is not locked to any cell phone provider.
Just a reminder that iPad is to be launched in US this Saturday April 3rd.
Tags: Apple, Cell phones, iPad, New products, Rogers
Last week has been eventful. After shooting various type of photos for over 7 years I’ve decided I want to practice and grow my portfolio of modeling, fashion and headshots. Not an easy task, I might add. If shooting nature, landscapes, city and architecture requires only camera, fashion and modeling requires… right – models. In [...]
Just arrived at F5-Expo at Vancouver Convention Center. I bet there will be hundreds tweets, blog posts especially about bumpy start of the expo. Running quickly to the office to grab stack of business cards I thought I would be late for conference kick-off scheduled. Update: Despite computer issues, F5-Staff decided to let everybody with [...]
I’ve neglected my blog for quite some time time now writing only one post per month, if that. With this post I’ve determined to write about all those things I have done in the past 6-9 months but haven’t shared yet. I’ve mentioned our new corporate Rogers Cell phone plans, but haven’t really talked about [...]
Two members of our team were heading oversees, Russia to be exact, for couple of weeks and it was my responsibility to come up with solution for cheaper roaming. One of them was on Telus with World Blackberry while other had personal Fido phone. Telus roams fine in Russia, but bills are outrageous. Telus charges [...]
After shooting Anthony Sedlak at Eat! Vancouver show Friday night, I’ve imported footage from my Sanyo Xacti HD1010 into iMovie 09. I was so happy that by converting .mp4 files into .mov it actually reduces size by 50%. The truth was – it only imported half of the clip.