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What’s Next After Nexus?

Jeff — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:40:33 +0000

By now everyone has seen or read about the superphone from Google, the Nexus One. $529 to buy the phone outright or $179 to take a two-year contract from T-Mobile. I can’t wait to see the numbers on the early adopters. If you consider the price to be high, think about how much an iPhone would cost [...]

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What’s Next After Nexus?

Photographic Lighting: There’s An App For That

Jeff — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:31:21 +0000

Shooting on location has plenty of opportunities to create stunning lighting set-ups that you want to record and reuse on another shot. Committing the lay-out to paper doesn’t always happen to due time constraints, good thing there are iPhones. Strobox.com iTunes Store Link has a handy little app that lets you create a diagram of the [...]

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Photographic Lighting: There’s An App For That

The Camera of 2009

Jeff — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:04:10 +0000

2009 has brought plenty of great cameras and advancements for photography, both digital and analog. After I read a couple choices for the Camera of the Year title, I began to think what would be my pick for Camera of the Year. That is something that is easier said than done. There are so many great [...]

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The Camera of 2009

Bad Santa

Jeff — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:11:36 +0000

When I was a kid and beginning to understand the concept of money I had a question. How does Santa Claus afford to bring all the toys? Today in Nashville my lifelong question was finally answered. In what sounds like a scene from the Billy Bob Thornton movie Bad Santa, a 6 foot tall man dressed as [...]

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Bad Santa

The Out of Towners

Jeff — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:35:35 +0000

Getting out after Friday and Saturday’s snow I ran across this group of visitors at a frozen parking lot Sunday morning. You have to wonder if they didn’t check their travel calendar. Taken with Nikon D300 that had a Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR lens attached shot at ISO 400, 55mm, 1/50 sec [...]

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The Out of Towners

F.Y.I. Last Day to Order at Amazon for Christmas With Standard Shipping

Jeff — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:58:39 +0000

Today is the last day you can order at Amazon and still recieve it in time with Standard Shipping. Amazon will still have the two-day and one-day options left, but ordering today will save you some cash for the Egg Nog fund. Also you can send an Amazon Gift Card by e-mail or print out from [...]

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F.Y.I. Last Day to Order at Amazon for Christmas With Standard Shipping

Googling Brittany Murphy’s Death in Realtime

Jeff — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:15:32 +0000

Watching the Twitter timeline I saw that actress Brittany Murphy’s death was trending. Curious if it was fact or another Jeff Goldblum hoax, I went to Google and I was pleasantly surprised. Not that I saw she has died, but the realtime streaming of the all the news stories, blog posts and tweets. The query [...]

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Googling Brittany Murphy’s Death in Realtime

Snow Day

Jeff — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:02:51 +0000

I guess I’ve been spoiled by global warming. When the forecast calls for snow I expect a few flurries and quick trip to Food-O-Ram-A-Lot as a precaution. Really we have not had a good snow Morristown for a couple years. According to news reports some parts of the Smokies really got slick and buried under with [...]

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Snow Day

FastMall App Hits the iTunes Store

Jeff — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:17:08 +0000

Timing is everything and this handy iPhone app came out at the right time. Just in time for Christmas shopping, FastMall™ (iTunes link) has hit the hitting the iTunes Store. Think of FastMall™ as a GPS for your area mall. It features turn by turn directions, updates on sales and can even remind you where [...]

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FastMall App Hits the iTunes Store

Ten Gift Ideas for the Shutterbug

Jeff — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:48:43 +0000

Shopping for a shutterbug can be a challenge when you know don’t know as much about photography as the person you are buying for. Here are ten ideas that you should be able to find at your neighborhood camera store or online and still have it ready to go under the tree in time. 1 – [...]

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Ten Gift Ideas for the Shutterbug

If You Are Netbook Shopping…

Jeff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:15:45 +0000

I know that when run a blurb about a cheap Netbook a lot of you will snap it them up. Seeing how Christmas is close I will share this one, but I don’t know how long they will have them in stock. One of the features I like best about this one is the 11.6″ [...]

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If You Are Netbook Shopping…

Nikon Unleashes 300 mm of Awesome

Jeff — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:55:41 +0000

Nikon has gone to their line-up a lenses and found another great lens to refresh with some of the latest advances the company has to offer. This time they took the Go-To lens that sports and wildlife photographers have used for decades, the 300 mm f/2.8. The revamped Nikon 300mm f/2.8G AF-S ED VR II Nikkor [...]

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Nikon Unleashes 300 mm of Awesome