Archive for 2010
Ever since Advance Micro Device has purchased graphic processing unit (GPU or in layman term “the video card unit) giants ATI Technologies on July of 2006, they retained the ATI brand for the GPU units until today on which AMD has formally drop the ATI brand name for all their upcoming Radeon GPU units.
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Last Monday Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 during the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (or WWDC). It is expected to be release on the third week of June 2010. Jobs highlighted the iOS 4 major features during the conference which includes the following:
Multi-tasking
- iOS 4 will ensure that multitasking doesn’t hamper the performance or battery life.
- Now you can play audio continuously even while surfing the web, playing games and more.
- VoIP can be used even better enabling users to receive VoIP calls and conversations while using another app. Users can even receive the calls when their phones are locked in their pockets.
- New navigation apps can guide users who are listening to their iPods or using other apps. iOS 4 also offers battery efficient way to monitor location on the move.
- Users can receive notifications from remote servers even when the app isn’t running.
- Users can now schedule events and alarms in the background, it doesn’t require any servers.
- All developers should be able to take advantage of the fast app switching feature, which will allow them to leave an app and come right back to where they had left.
Folders
Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps.
iBooks
More than a great ebook reader, it’s also an amazing place to browse and shop for books, day or night
Home Screen Wallpaper
Change the background wallpaper on your Home screen.
Gift Apps
Give your friends apps from the App Store.
Spellcheck
A built-in spellchecker works in Mail, Notes, and other apps.
There are more features the iOS 4 can offer but these are the major features that stands out
I was surprised to read from Wikipedia that the season finale of “House” titled “Help Me” was shot using a Digital SLR camera specifically the Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Episode director Greg Yaintanes has quote saying that this particular camera is “the future” of digital photography as well as videography and it allowed the production team to work in very tight spaces, using minimal lighting, while also offering a very shallow depth of field. My curiosity was aroused as I quickly search the detailed specification of the EOS 5D Mark II.
According to the the Wikipedia entry “The 5D Mark II is the first camera in the EOS line to provide video recording functions. Still photography during video recording is possible, but the camera suspends recording video until the final still frame is captured.”
Detailed Specifications of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Google officially announced the forthcoming release of an open source, royalty-free video format called WebM. Using the VP8 codec that Google acquired from On2 last February, the format is backed by fellow browser makers Mozilla and Opera.
In April, rumors about the open sourcing of VP8 started to take off, but the implications of what VP8 — and now WebM — might mean has been somewhat clouded by the bigger battle between Apple and Adobe over HTML5, Flash and the future of mobile platforms.
While WebM is not currently part of the HTML5 spec, it will be added as a supported part of the tag for the Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers.
Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative tool.
The latest version is Corel Painter 11.
Pros
- Super-realistic new hard media tools
- Better Photoshop support
Cons
- Interface remains cluttered
- Priced for professionals, not amateurs
Bottom Line
- The natural-media powerhouse gets its most realistic drawing tools yet.
In depth review of Corel Painter 11
On the heels of news that the Google Chrome Web browser is gaining market share while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is losing ground, both companies took the wraps off faster, next-generation browsers Wednesday. Google released a new beta of its Chrome browser which is much faster than the previous version and has several new features. Meanwhile, Microsoft put out its second IE9 platform preview, one week ahead of schedule. Speed is one of the main hallmarks of the latest Chrome browser beta, which loads Web pages at 2,700 frames per second, according to Google