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Some general information about pre-loaded Styles: “Standard” is told to emulate Kodak’s Ektachrome 100 slide film emulsion. Also the “Portrait” and “Landscape” styles are told to emulate popular film emulsions. “Neutral” is told to be tweaked to maximize the amount of information transfered to the RGB output (JPEG / TIFF…

The new iPad is unlocked and the iPhone 4 uses a micro SIM which is pretty uncommon. But you can take any regular SIM (called properly a mini-SIM) by cutting it down according to the DIY Guide Next, you’ll have to get a SIM template printed out at 100% (available here).…

Peta Pixel says Nikon goes first on August 19th, Sony does theirs on August 24th with a Petticle Mirror, and Canon has one scheduled August 26th. Nikon will likely be announcing the D3100, while Canon drops the 60D during theirs.

OK, I had no idea that the iTunes system was so insecure, but it makes sense, it is in essence a massive new credit card system and there hasn’t been 50 years of fraud detection builtin to get rid of unscrupulous merchants and it is entirely online so it is…

Ok, now that the government has said jailbreaking isn’t a violation of the DMCA, here is a current (it changes every 15 seconds!) guide to jailbreaking and unlocking as needed. Here are the key steps: First you want to save your SHSH blobs and a jailbreakable firmware version. Right now…

Where can you go to launch rockets around Seattle? Magnuson isn’t a bad place to go if you have a small rocket (e.g., Class 1) NW Rockets has a bunch of places, but the nearest is 60 Acres which is a set of soccer fields in the Sammamish River valley along the…

Been getting excited about using the Canon 5D Mark II as a professional quality video camera. Need some add-ons as there is no electronic viewfinder and the screen is way too washed out and hard to see as well as the fact that it won’t focus while shooting, so you…

The two places online you need to go. According to Rennie, Scancafe.com does a high resolution scanning job and then you can pick your photos that you want. Perfect for all my photos that I never have time to scan. And you can use smugmug.com to load your high resolution…

If you don’t want to get locked into AT&T (which I don’t!!!!), then you can buy an unlocked phone from Canada, use it overseas (yeah!) and also go with T-Mobile or whoever. It actually makes some sense given the lockin that these guys have. I lost $1,000 alone this month…

Apple announces new desktop Macs: For $70, you get a Magic Trackpad that has all the magic touch gestures for your desktop machine. How cool. Great for your imac. And most interesting is the iMac which has the new Quad Core i5 and the lower end i3 plus they have moved to…