Ohanaware has updated HDRtist (http://www.ohanaware.com/hdrtist/), its free HDR photography software for Mac OS X, to version 1.2. It’s purportedly the most stable version of the app to date.
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“North of Northeast” is a column that offers commentaries from a Canadian perspective. Google’s invested millions in it. Apple’s moving steadily towards it and Microsoft’s Office isn’t far behind.
Everywhere you turn, more and more companies are extolling the virtues of “the cloud.” My colleague, Dennis Sellers just wrote an interesting piece where he quotes an unnamed executive as saying “Apple want’s to eliminate the hard drive.”
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TrendNet (http://www.trendnet.com) has launched the US$159.99 450Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router. Three external antennas broadcast on the 2.4GHz spectrum.
Three spatial streams per antenna produce a record 450Mbps theoretical wireless throughput. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology boosts wireless coverage, signal strength, and throughput speed. The router has one Gigabit Wide Area Network port and four Gigabit Local Area Network ports.
Read MoreThere are reports (http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_reportedly_eyes_cloud_services_with_goal_of_eliminating_the_hard_driv/) that Apple wants to get into “cloud computing” and eliminate the hard drive when it comes to storing music and movies. Maybe I’m a dinosaur, but I’m not totally convinced that I want most of my data in the clouds.
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Making an external hard drive stand out when there are so many to choose from can be quite a challenge, but Western Digital (http://www.westerndigital.com) has always been an innovator in this realm. In addition, they have the experience given that they are a leading provider of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) drives as well as with their own products that bring a little more to the table than just plain old storage.
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