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I am using my compact cameras more often than my Canon and Nikon SLR – what? Putting aside $3000++ of photo power for machines costing 1/10th as much? Now don’t get me wrong – the Canon and Nikon SLRs do deliver notably better sharpness, less noise and many more shooting options in both still and […]

NYTimes David Pogue – camera, gadgeterati and electronics zoom commentator extraordinaire – has one of the most amusing takes on the wit and wiles of Apple TV versus the up-and-coming Roku TV [hunhhhh?]. But as you will see in this parody on the midterm erections … elections, David manages to convey the plus and minuses

Over the course of the 2010 one trend from Apple has become clear – Apple is short-changing its Mac line-up of desktops and laptops in favor of its iPad and ilk [aka iDevices]. The evidence is compelling – from the Adobe Flash attack to no touchscreen or multi-touch on the Mac lineup, Steve is asking

Picnik is one of the best online photo editors – it is now a part of Google’s Picasa line of free online photo albums.  The good news is that Picnik is fast and has some of the best online help and hints. The system seems to be a bit slower on startup than benchmarks on

Xara has the fastest bitmap + vector draw program by far with Xara Designer Pro. Xara has had as one of its consistent virtues blazing speed. Xara is able to handle big bitmap 30-80MB files  [great for the thunderously sized images being produced by top of the line Canon, Nikon, and other  SLR cameras] and

Corel has long had one of the best Windows natural media paint programs, Painter 11. The program offers numerous brush+media types with master control over each brush+media and its effects. Artist colleagues use Painter 11 as a basic creative medium and tool. Photographers use it to refine photos with subtle brush effects and enhanced compositions.

This is a story about the new forbidden fruit – picture taking at public events. After the Cobourg Highland Festival was washed out with a downpour, your PhotoFinishes editor wearing a PhotoFinishes cap and trying to rescue the day went down to the Cobourg Beach to catch the storm clouds over Lake Ontario. The graying

Whats a waste! Apple’s Steve Job is getting awfully close to libelous scamming of Adobe Flash Player.Adobe has made the critical mistake of not putting enough resources into developing for Linux and Mac. And so Steve throws out HTML5 as a solution – and walks right into 3 big punches. First, HTML5 is far from