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Voigtlaender Virtus D8 digital camera {Engadget}
Jul 27th 2006 12:22AM Outlandish name, you say? From the Wikipedia:
"Voigtländer is an optical company founded in 1756 by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna and thus the oldest name in cameras"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voigtlaender
Washington Times likes the MacBook {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 20th 2006 8:41PM "Mark recommends that you get 2 gigs of RAM to really make this baby fly"
So do I. The RAM is a big help. But what happens in a year when 10.5 and Office 2007 and CS 3 are out? More RAM will likely be called for, but you can't fit more RAM in the computer. What happens next year is called planned obsolescence.
It's sad that there are no Intel Macs that will hold more than 2 GB of RAM. It's more than sad that no reviewers are calling attention to this major lack of upgradeability.
Designed in California: Apple product database {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 18th 2006 7:45PM I agree with Justin. You can have all of this information and more on your hard drive instead of on the web.
http://mactracker.ca/
OS X browser test, fourth edition {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 14th 2006 11:53PM Omniweb is still using your monitor profile as the default for viewing images, instead of sRGB. sRGB is recommended by w3c and is what most digital cameras use. I'm not buying until they fix this.
Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 released {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 14th 2006 1:59PM Still no support for color profiles in JPEG images, or other images. Not good. Safari and other Webkit browsers have this.
Samsung's new NV line of fashionable cameras {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2006 8:34PM I'm glad to see Samsung taking some chances with their packaging instead of following the herd. The buttons on the back near the screen might actually be an improvement over joystick button layout that everybody else uses.
Negatives:
The small NV3 doesn't let in enough light, just like every other folded optics design (f3.5).
The big NV7 has a zoom that starts at 38mm. That's not a very wide angle lens. Maybe it's a mistake and they really mean 28mm. That would make me a lot more interested in this camera.
ADTec's AD-SDH SD cards: waterproof and fast {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2006 1:51AM ATP has been making fast, waterproof cards for years.
http://flash.atpinc.com/products/view.php?product_id=1028
iPizzle and other dubious iPod slang {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 27th 2006 8:30PM "I have never heard any of these phrases." It could be because nobody uses them. Wired has been known to make up stories like this.
Foxconn denies iPod sweatshop accusations {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2006 11:00PM No stories yet about any other company's gadget factories yet. You've had two or three on iPod factories now. I don't think you hate Apple, I just think you are very shallow. Staying with this story is just like repeating malicious gossip about the in crowd in high school.
Chinese workers reportedly toil in "iPod City" {Engadget}
Jun 13th 2006 3:18PM "so until we find a way to break our gadget addiction, we'll all be complicit in these practices to some degree." I think that sentence is weak. Try ending the sentence with "we are all complicit in these practices." That's present tense, leaving no room for doubt.
Still I'm impressed that you even mention the conditions under which gadgets are produced. That's a big step forward for engadget. I hope to see more posts about this subject in engadget.
