Friday, January 9, 2009

To minimize the photographers JPEG quality loss.

Cameras, PCs, DVD players, mobile phones or navigation devices? they show all images in JPEG format. But beware: JPEGs have a built-in loss of quality. The trade magazine "Color Photo" explains what you need.
  No file format is as popular as JPEG: Not just cameras and PCs show JPEG image files, including DVD players, mobile phones and navigation devices are suitable. Admittedly: widespread is the JPEG version with a loss of quality. If the image with low-quality store, you can save disk space and in time transfer? but fine image details are lost forever.
Levels of quality, batch processing, preview - "Color Photo", the problems with the popular JPEG file format, and shows how to avoid them.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

The evil is suddenly Steve brav.

Premiere for Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer: As a successor to Bill Gates gave his first speech to the opening of mega-entertainment trade show CES. He promised a public preview version of the new operating system Windows 7? and was responsible for his situation very cautiously.
  Steve Ballmer stomps onto the stage, marching quickly forward to the 5000 people to lift the huge hands in hips, so that his dark red sweater some stretches, bends in attack position, and says: "That is the CES."
Yes, this is the largest high-tech show the world that Bill Gates for 15 years has opened up. And Ballmer is now off. It was the 2009th Ballmer is facing a huge room full of people who could use a little encouragement. It's recession - who have since bought 3-D TV?
A little optimism, a couple of stunning products, a few sentences anfeuernde - who would be better suited than the herauszubrüllen Ballmer, once a room full of software developers to Mitklatschen brought by it on the stage stamped, hopped, and heiserer voice again schweißüberströmt and again "Developers, Developers, Developers (" Developers, developers, developers ") shouted. Steve Ballmer, the counter-draft to the more pastoral other industries Steve, screaming, not once in Las Vegas. He rewinds to the encouragement of wisdom from a couple who researches in the recession, is better off if the economy grows. The power of new ideas drives humanity forward. And so on.
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Only rarely is a little louder Ballmer. When he's success story tells of the PC, for example. Since Ballmer raises his voice to the arms high, showing with his shovel hands to himself and says "I'm a PC" - a quote from Microsoft's own anti-Apple ad campaign. He is not screaming, he emphasizes the voice only slightly. And then a little further: "And I'm proud of it." Louder is not on this evening. Also, the product announcements are restrained. Have not new, Microsoft has to offer, certainly not surprises.
Ballmer acts as if he is to hold back. Only sometimes there is something of the energy that one of his most famous performances knows. For example, Ballmer as a sideswipe at Yahoo chief Jerry Yang austeilt of Microsoft's takeover bid, and later rejected by its shareholders for abgestraft was: Yang chatte him again and ask: "Why do not you want my Facebook friend." Ballmer rewinds the gag routinely, and pushes a spontaneous, Fiese, loud laughter behind. When running video presentation, Ballmer rubbing their hands, runs on the stage back and forth, lift the arms to the hips. He is bursting with energy and aggressiveness, but not from inside.
How about Microsoft at this evening.
A preliminary version of Windows 7, new Web services, cooperation and fun: Read what Microsoft has planned for 2009.

Cableless load underwater filming.

A creative crisis is not to determine what in the next few days in Las Vegas at CES is presented, the trends of the year. A few interesting novelties have already been leaked: Chargers without cable, 3D Webcams, underwater camcorder, Bluetooth sunglasses - a selection.
  Las Vegas - On Thursday opens the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2009 in Las Vegas its doors. It is so much already seems certain, in quantitative terms set no records: After years of excessive growth, which the CES the world's most influential consumer electronics show has made the industry is now caught by the downturn.
Not to the same extent as in other industries, but noticeable and painful. The industry eventually produced primarily of luxury goods - and are commonly very small margins because of price competition in the electronics market is brutal.

Still, it is not so far that the number of exhibitors significantly sänke. The savings trend is rather less elaborate presentations, in a slimmed-down Beiprogramm. Apart from the CES is again expected that the trends in consumer electronics for the next year will: What From tonight there will be presented, we in Europe still up in the summer and walked to various fairs as novelties presented.
The spectrum ranges from pure luxury to everyday smart solutions. For the foreseeable trends this year include the topic of 3D, the movie about us from the home to the PC will meet, direct connections from TVs to the Internet, including several solutions for streaming multimedia offerings and, of course, single PC in every imaginable design and forms - also known as touch-screen laptops or Netvertibles ".
Just the simple machine could be the most remarkable long-term changes in the market: at a pragmatic use profiles oriented small computer to open the market for operating systems in new ways. For example, Phoenix Technologies a base operating system for laptops imagine that within 15 seconds to boot and the core functions of the computer should be available. Only if you need something more, if necessary, switch to Windows.
Software is also on weal and woe of another, once a very successful company to decide: Palm is the first time at CES its new operating system imagine. ONLINE blogs is on the spot and will arrive on Wednesday evening on an ongoing basis, all the important news. Interesting from the current Apple's Macworld trade show can be found here and here.

The Lord of the 500 Apple-shirts.

He was more Mac than Steve Jobs Shows: Raines Cohen, a quarter of a century almost every Apple meeting in the United States attended and suit makers scared. His collection of Apple-shirts, he has given away - the home computer revolution is over, says Cohen.
  San Francisco - It's cold and rainy in San Francisco in early January, so has Raines Cohen for his 24th Apple Fair in this city inevitably attracted subtle: Spilled sneakers, neon yellow rain jacket, sweater and thick hides such an Apple-shirt from Cohen's collection: white, long and over the heart of a small colorful apple logo.
Cohen, who has been around since the 1985 Macworld Expo Apple Fair every visit, the visit to San Francisco was, remembers exactly when he bought the shirt: "That was the beginning of 1998, before Steve Jobs is the old logo has changed." The hippie buntgestreifte apple, which from 1976 for the counter-culture image Apple, it was at that time by the monochrome logo replaced with the company back to success has been consolidated.
25 years Apple disciples
Raines Cohen, 42, and now consultant for nonprofit housing, in 1984 in Berkeley, California at the University one of the largest Apple user groups ever created. "We wanted to show ourselves how to get the best of the opportunities the new technology makes," he says. For the "Berkeley Mac Users Group (BMUG) Cohen has passed quarter-century in almost all Apple-fairs in the United States experienced hundreds of user group meetings attended while he was alongside his geography degree. And Cohen has nearly every event T-shirts and shirts with them, more than 500 have it.
T-shirts are an interesting part of geek culture: The organizers of trade fairs and user meetings, but also companies that introduce new products, or developers who participate in a new project, devote this occasion selbstgestaltete T-shirts, which Participants will be given away or sold. And there for almost every small and big IT event in the history of their own T-shirt.
T-Shirt donation to Stanford Collection
Cohen has a big part of his collection of 2002, the Library of Stanford University that form a collection of devotional Apple care. The donation is enriched by one important aspect: The unofficial, not Apple's self-written history of the Mac culture.
Stanford librarian Alex Soojung-Kim Pang told the U.S. magazine "Wired", T-shirts were "the crocks of the digital age," Cohen was one of the few people who "from the beginning part of the Mac history, with no part of the Apple influence around the Mac growing, vibrant culture. "
Therefore it can be estimated from T-shirts stories about the distance between Apple and the Mac disciples tell: the red-white-BMUG batik shirt, for example, which the user group in 1989 to the Macworld Expo in Washington by the suit makers from authorities , ministries and military abhob, which dominated the show.
The unwritten history Mac
Or, as Apple employees Cohen at Macworld 1992 by the state, because he wore a shirt that covers the new Mac OS 7.1. amused that the memory hunger and the inertia of the predecessor 7 should stop. On the front of Cohen's T-shirt stood System 7.1 sucks less "(mutatis mutandis:" System 7.1. Is no longer quite so large dung "), on the back" We've upped Our standards - up yours "(mutatis mutandis" We have raised our standard - you can we get ").
Designed had this T-shirt, according to Cohen Apple programmers. They had obviously more humor than the marketing managers in the company. Cohen is even the name of one of the participating programmer. If anyone knows how the Mac community is ticking and how it has changed, then Cohen. To retreat from the tradition of Apple's Macworld trade show, he has a surprising opinion: "The show had anyway reinvention is necessary."
A bit of 1985 would be good
The smaller companies would still receive little attention, which could deal with a smaller, which in the sense of community interested fans oriented Macworld Expo change. If it is a bit like 1985, would have the Mac fair perhaps even without Apple a chance.
At that time, Cohen says, "People just wanted to try it together, what you all with such a home computer can do." The visitors thrilled to have long forgotten the wonders of technology. 1985 was the Thunder scanner crowds - two engineers had Apple ImageWriter dot matrix printer to a relatively cheap scanner converted by the print head against a sensor exchanged. The device inserted digitalized prints line by line? and needed one hour per sheet.
No nostalgia, only anecdotes
Cohen transfigured the past complains not about the present, he is too busy, too active in the here and now. He folded his arms behind the head, then on his knees, his eyes scurry back and forth, he tells drauflos. About the big things, whether Apple is really the world has changed, as the advertising and many fans say he does not like to speculate. Apple has revolutionized the marketing, very easy to use computer built and in advertisements shown that it is cool, computer use.
So much for revolution.
True, he is excited by low-cost laptop OLPC initiative "One Laptop Per Child" - which was a "revolutionary device as the home computer and then Macs. Because: The OLPC is the first computer, the people are in their hands, which would otherwise probably never would use a calculator.
Mac Help Earthquake
Unlike many Apple preacher Cohen has big dreams of technology utopians, with the computers to change society, very concrete reality. For example in 1989, when an earthquake the bay from San Francisco and shook more than 60 people killed.
Cohen helped the Red Cross with a few Macs and network cables, which he made the fundus of BMUG-giving, within 24 hours to build a database. At ten in a closed network Macs tippten human details of more than a thousand volunteers On - language skills, training, how long they have been on his feet.
As computers have been the subject of everyday life, Cohen is looking for a new task. Today, he consults with his wife, a city planner, people called Cohousing settlement wishing - communities with private homes and jointly designed and operated facilities such as daycare or libraries. Cohen: "What I said in the user groups have learned about themselves, helps people find a way together and the best of the opportunities to make."
Just like back then from the Mac.

Apple buried the copy protection.

A small Knaller farewell: With Apple's recent Macworld show, the group announced that soon only copyright free music to sell. Retreaded computer does not exist - that the overdue in 17-inch MacBook, exciting photo and video tools and stunted office software for the Internet.
  The jeans from Apple manager Phil Schiller is reminiscent of Steve Jobs. Nothing else.
The marketing director of the group enters into a light blue, something schlabberigen trousers in San Francisco around 3000 before Apple fans on the stage. He has little to do with the Apple boss Jobs in common here in recent years from frenetic applause always new products shown at this year but has refrained - although it is the last time that Apple has at Macworld will present its products. Phil Schiller is wearing a blue shirt, the approach emphasizes his stomach, he smiles friendly, harmless and speaks with the quiet, deep voice of a storyteller.
Jobs was the magician - Schiller is the nice uncle.

And so it begins nicely, too. "From the bottom of our hearts thank you, that they have come," he says and adds a sideswipe at Macworld this: Every week could be the Apple stores around the world 3.4 million people. "A hundred times as many people as to Macworld."
A few people clap, some whistling. Schiller then submits the go, what he can better product ideas.
Face, a mini-online-office and 10 million songs without copy protection - blogs ONLINE shows Apple surprises from the Macworld Expo:

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

3D iPhones and dwarf projectors.

iPhone image with depth, touchscreen Macbook: Not only has Apple on the Macworld Expo new to offer. Several accessory manufacturers use the Mac as a fair forum to present their new developments. A few highlights blogs ONLINE has the same place at the start of the fair.
  If an Apple Steve (Jobs) does not come, then at least the other. Steve Wozniak, co-founder and developer of the first Apple computers, this year not only as a visitor, but also as an exhibitor at the show on the way. Wozniak, friends and fans briefly Woz, is at the booth of the company Axiotron show a product that you really like Apple itself had seen: the Modbook.
As the name suggests, it is a modified Macbook. By Apple's laptop with a drawing tablet with an integrated screen married, created the developer of the Modbook manufacturer Axiotron an Apple notebook with a touchscreen. That dream of many designers for a long time. Directly on the screen, you can paint and draw - if one wants to go. At least, if one has the wherewithal. Because a Modbook on the basis of the cheapest 999-dollar Macbook is with $ 2249 in Axiotrons pricelist.
Frisierte Macbook: Axiotron makes relatively cheap Macbooks significantly more expensive Modbooks - with touchscreen

Why now but precisely Wozniak painting Macbook at the fair will present explains Axiotron founder Andreas Haas easy affinity with his technique: "When Newton Messagepad enthusiasts (the Apple Newton was glück hopeless attempt at a handheld computer to build Anm . the Red.), we share the desire, some of whose characters tablet functions revive, for so long been forgotten. "
With such prominent shooters can not help all the exhibitors at Apple's Macworld Expo trade show in San Francisco auftrumpfen, exciting products have many of them still there.
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Steve Jobs, who is suffering from hormone disruption.

For weeks rumors about the health of Steve Jobs - Apple now has the boss a statement delivered in their own right: He was not renewed because of a cancer so emaciated, but due to a hormonal disorder.
  New York / Cupertino - Apple CEO Jobs said he needed only a "relatively simple" treatment. His leadership at Apple, he will be retained. "A hormone imbalance in my body has robbed the proteins, which he needs in order to be healthy," said Jobs in writing. "Sophisticated blood tests" have now confirmed this diagnosis.
The rumors about the health status of jobs had in recent weeks strengthened after Apple announced, Jobs will not be as usual, the opening speech at Apple's Macworld trade show hold.
Philip Schiller, the marketing director of the company, the speech, which usually also includes product launches, on tomorrow, Tuesday, to Jobs' body hold. The rumors also had several times the market price of Apple Inc. clearly fall - Jobs is regarded as a guarantee for the success of the company. In response to today's news, the Apple shares on the New York Stock Exchange around four percent. Analyzed the stock market as an end to speculation about jobs.
The company's founders was a little more than four years to pancreatic cancer, the disease had claimed to own but overcome.
Its clearly visible weight loss in the past year, the rumors about a renewed outbreak transported. Now, Jobs said that it is merely a "problem with the nutrient supply," he had with the treatment already begun. This will however take some time to come: He had all the weight did not "in a week or one months lost," said Jobs, according to his doctors expected that "at least until late spring will last until I have recovered ".
The company Apple published alongside an opinion: "Apple has a lot of luck, Steve as a manager and CEO, and he deserves our full and unwavering support." The Apple will he and his executive also definitely get.
Jobs said in the letter that he would continue as the Apple chief available. "I will be the first who resigns and the Board informed when I no longer my duties as head of Apple can fulfill."