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Filecrate Remote File Backup

The backup system you have working — in this case automatic, off-site file backup — is the system which will save your business some day. This one is very good.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Premiere Elements 8

A common organizer, auto-analyze, powerful JPG and RAW processing and wonderful video production make it a tough act to beat.

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Digital Photography Books to Kick Off 2010

Camera makers should dump their dense, boring user manuals in favor of Busch's guides. There's more including WordPress, photo tools, blogging.

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Rolling, Medium Size, Carry-On Camera Cases

Carrying too many bodies and lenses? Probably. Something sturdy, secure and carry-on compatible is needed.

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Uniblue DriverScanner 2009

When the latest Windows update mangles a video card or network card driver, think about how nice it would be to have a really good driver updater.

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Think Tank Urban Disguise 35

Think Tank Photo seems bent on making itself the gold standard in pro camera bags. Is this shoulder bag one of the most versatile ever?

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Handy Folders v3.5

Productivity and organization fall flat when they run into the rather limited Windows file explorer. Fast access to regularly used folders is easier than you think.

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Think Tank Shape Shifter Photography Backpack

Medium size photo/laptop backpacks come and go. The best stay with us for years. This is one of the best we've seen.

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Think Tank Airport AirStream Rolling Camera Bag

If you travel with more than a shoulder bag full of gear, you need something that will protect the load and make it easy to go places.

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Think Tank Skin Set Modular Component Camera Gear Carry System

Pros know that if you don't get the shot, you're out of business. Tough, crowded, fast moving situations require special solutions.

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Crumpler Six Million Dollar Home Camera Shoulder Bag

Crumpler is a bag maker which insists on being different. Care and attention to detail help create wonderful photography products.

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Think Tank Urban Disguise 40 Camera Bag

The mid-size entry in the Urban Disguise series provided us with enough incentive to physically beat it up and overstress it. The bag took it all.

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Think Tank Urban Disguise 30 Camera Bag

There are camera bags and then there are Think Tank camera bags. Lots of competition means better products. Think Tank is at the top of its game.

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Nik Color Efex Pro 3

The best Photoshop plug-ins get better because the developers listen to end users. Nik Software listens. Digital photographers are demanding sophisticated processing effects.

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ION Slide2PC Scanner

If you've got boxes full of old 35mm slides and negatives, it's probably time to start scanning before everything falls apart, gets lost, or gets soaked in a flood.

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TetherBerry v1.0.7

Connect a laptop to the Internet, anywhere you've got cell phone service, through your BlackBerry's data connection and avoid some really crazy per-megabyte carrier charges

HTC Touch Diamond Smartphone

HTC has steadily grabbed more market share by regularly turning out superb smartphones offering slick designs wrapped around great features

The Ultimate HTML Reference

A concise desktop reference guide for all standard, W3C-compliant HTML, which uniquely also includes browser compatibility charts for each element

UpStrap Shoulder Strap for SLR & Prosumer Cameras

Superb quality, purpose-built SLR and prosumer camera shoulder strap that's made in the U.S. and made to last

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The 10 Most Annoying Programs on the Internet

ZDNet UK has just published contributor Rupert Goodwins' brilliant list of the 10 most annoying programs on the Internet. I'm not sure if Goodwins had help from the other ZDNet editors or if this incisive, spot-on list flew out of his mind alone. Either way, it's good enough to make you laugh and cry at the same time.

Here's the list.

As you click each Gallery thumbnail to access the list and read the well-written annoyance descriptions, you may think of some other annoying products. Let us know. In the meantime, Goodwins' ZDNet list is an excellent overview.

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posted by Howard Carson, Managing Editor at 9:06 AM

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Undersea Cables Mysteriously Cut In Middle East

The idea of someone going around cutting undersea data cables is bound to bring any IT reliant middle eastern the night terrors. But apparently this seems to be exactly the case. In recent weeks there have been 5 undersea cables cut/broken/sabotaged, and no one seems able to point out the culprits. Is some kind of action by a cyber wing of Al Quaeda or economic and cyber terrorism by other radicals?

The cables affected are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the SeaMeWe-4 and FLAG Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast and the FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran. The news is however that three of these will be repaired within the week.

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Friday, March 02, 2007

New Reviews on KSN - Friday March 2, 2007

Review of Photo Mechanic 4 - digital photo sorting & tagging

Review of the Microsoft Zune Media Player - new competition for the iPod

Review of the Nikon D40 Digital SLR camera - entry level SLR

Review of Norton Internet Security 2007 - the biggest keeps getting bigger

Review of jetAudio v6.28 VX Plus - audio/video media player

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posted by Howard Carson, Managing Editor at 8:59 PM



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