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GALAXY NEXUS coming soon...

2011-11-16T11:26:00.001-05:00

Canon, organising an event to make an historic global announcement!

2011-09-16T09:11:00.002-04:00

What will that be is the question? New Mirorrless camera? New camcorder? New DSLR? New lenses? New printers?

Or perhaps Canon and Nikon will join in a new Canikon Corp.???

November 3, 2011 - stay tuned!

full article from Engadget.com

SNAPSORT.COM

2011-03-25T09:35:00.000-04:00

Hey folks,

In this article we want to point your attention to one excellent source of information about digital cameras. If you’re in doubt which model to choose, or you want two models or brands compared side by side, this is where you should go.

SNAPSORT.COM - Excellent Digital Camera Resource

Here is a brief walk-through the site. The main sections of the site are:

EXPLORE – they have excellent rank list of the digital cameras with the most important pros/cons of each camera, as also the overall score point.

COMPARE – Truly amazing side by side comparison between the most popular digital cameras today

JUST TELL ME – Recommendations which camera to buy according your budget

LEARN – excellent articles about sensor types, lenses, zoom, crop factor, ISO, etc.

TOP DIGITAL CAMERAS – a list of the top cameras by brand. Among with sites like dpreview.com, cameralabs.com or kenrockwell.com snapsort.com gives you full information about the selected model. They start with overview and then go deeper with showing the main competitors, replacement models, best prices and full specifications. Furthermore, their analytics team score the cameras. You also have videos, tutorials and samples from each model.

The only few recommendations we have and we would like to see on snapsort.com:

The "big" camera images are actually too small. You will still find yourself looking for other sources online if you want to see big detailed picture of the cameras.

The other thing we would like to see is a mobile version of the site. Although it is very user friendly, lite, intuitive and opens fast in modern Android phones, iPhone and Blackberry a dedicated mobile app will make it even better - optimized for the small screens - bigger buttons to tap, etc.

In conclusion we highly recommend snapsort.com

Go, take a look and tell us what you think! You won’t be sorry and we’re sure you’ll be using it more often than you think! Enjoy!

The first 3D laptop!

2010-12-01T15:58:00.000-05:00

The ASUS G73JW-3DE features a 120Hz Screen that provides a fully immersive stereoscopic 3D experience with NVIDIA® 3D Vision™. A combination of high-tech wireless glasses and advanced software, 3D Vision automatically transforms hundreds of PC games into full stereoscopic 3D. In addition, view movies and digital photographs in eye popping 3D.

http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-g73jw3de-pre-order-p-2912.html

Adobe MAX 2010

2010-09-23T11:07:00.000-04:00

Adobe MAX 2010 - October 23-27, Los Angeles, CA

MAX is a unique opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, and business leaders as we shape the future of digital media together.

Discover how to realize the full potential of your content and applications. Find new opportunities presented by rich experiences across screens. Explore new methods for monetizing content. Learn about innovative technologies that enable designers and developers to work together more effectively. Join and get inspired.

https://max.adobe.com/register/

How Much Should A Web Site Cost?

2010-09-13T12:24:00.001-04:00

There are many opinions about how much should a web site cost. This is one of the most frequently asked questions in the web design world.
And this is not without it's logic, because there isn't just one answer to this question.
The reason I'm writing this article is not to give you that dreamed answer, but to summarize the information I found out there. Yeah, I already did that for myself, spending many hours to look for information. Let me share with you, so you don't have to spend time to find the same results.
1) Let me start with the site, named exactly with the name of the question:
http://www.howmuchdoesawebsitecost.com
2) http://www.webpagefx.com/How-much-should-web-site-cost.html
3) http://www.imageworksstudio.com/blog/what-does-custom-website-design-cost-ongoing-web-marketing-lead-generation/index.html
4) http://onwired.com/index.php/how-much-will-it-cost/
5) http://webdesign.about.com/cs/salaries/a/aa022403a.htm
6) http://www.designquote.net/html/dq_estimate_wizard.cfm
7) http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Much-Does-Website-Design-Cost?&id=1920023

Below are some books, that also may help you better understand how much a good website costs:

I hope you find some of the information useful for you.

Tips for Photographers: Rules for Perfect Lighting

2010-07-26T11:34:00.000-04:00

Rules for Perfect Lighting: Understanding The Inverse-Square Law

The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts

2010-04-02T16:27:00.000-04:00

Windows 7 users - check this out:
The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts

New image editing tools for Photoshop CS5

2009-12-10T11:33:00.002-05:00

New image editing tools for Photoshop CS5

The project, collaboration between Adobe, Princeton University, and the University of Washington. Presented at the technical papers session at SIGGRAPH ‘09 in New Orleans this August.

Take a stand against IE!!!

2009-07-12T09:07:00.002-04:00

Take a stand against IE! - James Padolsey

Imagine, if every single website on earth suddenly broke in IE – users of IE would be utterly confused and annoyed – there would be an epic stream of complaints battering every IT department this side of the sun! Eventually it would result in the demise of IE (all versions). So you see, it is possible! Together we can bring down IE, it just takes a tad of collaboration!

Here is the buzz...

2009-06-21T08:50:00.002-04:00

Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts

I am a PC, but this is one of the funniest articles I recently read.
As MS said - "Here is the buzz..."

CCD vs. CMOS

2009-06-09T08:25:00.003-04:00

CCD vs. CMOS
Extremely useful information if you're still wondering which technology is better.
There are always pros. and cons. but this article makes your choice much easier.

And one more very useful article I found:

CCD vs. CMOS: Facts and Fiction

Overlay your HTML with eyecandy with jquery overlay

2009-04-22T00:15:00.008-04:00

Overlay your HTML with eyecandy with jquery overlay

Overlaying HTML on top of the main document is one of the most common features in today's websites.

STEFIG DESIGN has a New Website!

2009-04-14T19:50:00.006-04:00

Please, feel welcome to visit the new, fully
renovated site of Stefig Design at: STEFIG.COM
We hope you'll enjoy your time!
Don't forget to give us your feedback.

5005: Unknown Error optimizing byte code

2009-04-08T14:04:00.003-04:00

Recently I had a strange output error message in Flash CS4.

"5005: Unknown Error optimizing byte code"

After I did some research I found the Adobe answer:

"Extremely large Flash applications may compile incorrectly (Flash CS3, Flash CS4 Professional)"

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405257

My flash file wasn't so big (FLA file - 2Mb and the exported SWF file - 193kb).

I was using some Jumpeye components, so I was thinking they may be adding some extra code.

Jumpeye have posted very useful article about this problem:

"This is a really “interesting” error message that Flash throws in the Output panel and unfortunately there is no other explanation accompanying the message. At Jumpeye we’ve had to deal a few times with this error message which seems to be generated whenever working with large .fla files that make use of rather large amounts of code."

http://www.negush.net/blog/5005-unknown-error-optimizing-byte-code/

This posting describes different solutions. It took me some time to figure out which one works and which one doesn't. To help save your time, I decided to summarize both - the solutions and the results.

1. Uncheck “Reduce file size and increase performance” in Publish Settings/ Actionscript3 settings - unfortunately it is only in CS3 but not in CS4.

2. Control / “Delete ASO Files” - Didn’t work

3. File / “Save and Compact” - Didn’t work

4. “Increase java VM heap memory size” - WORKED!!!

To do that in Windows: right click on my computer -> properties -> advanced -> environment variables -> make a new variable:

JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

and add this value:

-Xmx1024M

Then log out or restart.

There was an issue when I opened Flash CS4 after the restart. I got the message:

“Error initializing Java Runtime Environment. You may need to reinstall Flash.”

I had to change the value from -Xmx1024M to -Xmx256M (or -Xmx128M). A value of -Xmx512M and higher causes every time the error “Error initializing JRE. You may need to reinstall Flash”.

After I set up the variable "JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS" with value "-Xmx256M" everything started working fine.

For MAC users please look here:

http://mactip.blogspot.com/2004/04/setting-environment-variables.html

I hope you'll find this post helpful.