Hyundai Imagequest L90D+ 19-inch LCD display By John Virata The Hyundai Imagequest L90D+ is a 19-inch LCD display that offers up to SXGA (1280 x 1024) resolutions as well as analog and digital connections. Targeted at the lower end of the 19-inch LCD market, the display has a contrast ratio of 700:1 and built-in two-watt speakers with an earphone jack. ...Read More »

Wacom Graphire4 Pen Tablet By John Virata With the popularity of digital cameras and digital photography, many folks are eager to put their own finishing touches on their digital images. Some have, however, quickly found out that sketching or painting with a mouse is like trying to draw with a bar of soap. ...Read More »

The Digital Photography Pocket Guide By John Virata The Digital Photography Pocket Guide by Derrick Story is a 172 page guide on digital photography and how to get the most out of your digital camera. The guide, which is designed to fit in your camera bag or your back pocket is just three chapters long but is full of a lot of valuable information, information that you can easily take with you. ...Read More »

Verbatim 2GB Store 'n' Go Pro USB Drive By John Virata Back in the mid 1990s, the Iomega Zip drive was king of the removable storage market. Highly reliable when compared to the SyQuest drives that it quickly replaced, and sporting a huge 100MB capacity, the Zip became the go to sneakernet solution for portable media storage. Fast forward to today and the media storage of choice has got to be the flash based USB thumb drives. ...Read More »

Shooting the Hilton Waikoloa Village By John Virata This article is more about traveling with your digital camera and laptop computer more than shooting the Hilton Waikoloa Village, though the Village is a great resort to shoot photos. When you travel with your digital camera and your digital darkroom, there are several things that you have to consider as you pack for your trip. How many memory cards to bring, what cameras and lenses to bring and when to choose the appropriate cameras and lens. ...Read More »

Lowepro Top Load Zoom I Camera Bag By John Virata Digital SLR cameras can be expensive. These cameras start at around $799 and go up from there. The nice thing about them is the fact that they are SLRs, so you get all the benefits of a traditional SLR in a digital format. Keeping them safe and secure might be an afterthought, but for the price that you pay to buy one, you should protect it as best as you can. ...Read More »

Kingston Data Traveler II Plus Migo By John Virata There was a recent survey in the news about computer users taking notebook computers with them on their vacations. Usually when people go on vacation, it is to get away from work and for those who work on a computer all day, get away from the computer. But based on the survey, for whatever reason, a notebook computer is brought along on the vacation, perhaps to keep up with the goings ons in the world, keep up communications, or to have a place to store digital vacation photos. ...Read More »

Picture Rescue 1.1.0 By Frank Moldstad Anybody who's ever accidentally deleted photos from a digital camera media card will appreciate Prosoft Picture Rescue 1.1.0 (MSRP $59). This Mac OS X application not only retrieves deleted images, it can also restore images from a reformatted or corrupt media card. ...Read More »

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Workflow By John Virata Adobe Photoshop CS 2 Workflow is a 288 page, four part, 14 chapter book that assist you in building a digital workflow for your digital photographic endeavors in Photoshop CS, CS2, and Photoshop Elements. ...Read More »

Epson Stylus Photo R200 By Dave Nagel In general, I don't write reviews of printers unless there's really a compelling story to tell about them. The Epson Stylus Photo R200, like all Epson R-series printers, combines standard photo-quality printing with the ability to print directly on inkjet-printable CD and DVD media. That's not so uncommon these days. But the real story in the case of the R200 is incredible value combined with outstanding image quality. ...Read More »

Wacom Graphire Bluetooth By Dave Nagel I haven't reviewed a Wacom tablet yet that I haven't loved, and I've had my hands on just about all of them. Like all of the company's graphics tablets, the new wireless Graphire Bluetooth is, in itself, a great productivity booster for professionals in the visual arts and another example of the engineering that has made Wacom the deserved leader in this market. But how well does a graphics tablet pair with Bluetooth wireless technology? ...Read More »

G-Technology's G-Drive mini By John Virata Small form factor computers have gained in popularity over the last several years. These systems generally have onboard graphics chips and sound processors to lower the price, as well as limited internal expandability. Apple's Mac mini and Jadetech's MicroPC computers are in this category and by design, have virtually no internal expansion capabilities. And there's the rub. ...Read More »

Concord 5340z Digital Camera By John Virata As digital cameras have fast become commodity products, manufacturers of these devices have been releasing more models that capture more pixels, all for less money. Concord Camera Corp., a third tier player in the digital camera space, has released the Concord 5340z, a 5.1 megapixel point and shoot digital camera with a 3X optical zoom for the previously unheard of price of $199. Just a few years ago, $199 would get you a 3 megapixel digital camera. So how does this camera perform? Let's take a look after we go through the spec sheet. ...Read More »

Dragon Burn 4 By John Virata Dragon Burn 4 is a $40 CD/DVD burning application for Mac OS X that features all the tools in one interface to burn your media. The premise behind Dragon Burn 4 is to be the one stop CD and DVD burning utility for the Macintosh. ...Read More »

SYBEX Announces Digital Photography Contest By John Virata SYBEX announced that it has launched a Digital Photography Contest with a $1,000 1st prize for the best digital photographs submitted to SYBEX to celebrate the launch of the company's DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO CENTER. ...Read More »

The Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Experience By John Virata In March of 1995, Kodak entered the fledgling digital camera market with the Kodak Digital Science DC40, a 0.38 megapixel digital camera that output 504 x 756 image resolution. While it was one of the first to enter the market, for reasons most likely related to the fact that the company was the number one supplier of film, the company virtually ignored the digital camera market, occasionally shipping an anemic model, that was vastly overshadowed by other digital camera manufacturers. ...Read More »

Roundup—Macworld SF 2005 By Dave Nagel For those of you interested in trivia, here's something you might not know. It turns out Apple actually does make computers, not just digital music players. Of course, I can't blame people for not knowing that. After all, the iPod is everywhere, while the Mac is still holed up primarily in the creative professional market. Even at this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, attendees and exhibitors seemed more pumped about about iPods and iPod accessories than anything else, though the Mac Mini also made an impression on many attendees, it being the first sub-$500 Mac sold by Apple. ...Read More »

First Look: Samsung SyncMaster 711T By John Virata The Samsung SyncMaster 711T is a ($449) 17-inch TFT LCD display with a twist in that you can view the display in both horizontal and vertical fashions with the included Portrait Display's Pivot Pro software. The display offers a 1000:1 contrast ratio, a 0.264 pixel pitch, and 1280 x 1024 max resolution. ...Read More »

MagPix Pocket Photo Album By John Virata As digital cameras become more prevalent, companies are constantly trying to figure out ways to share those digital images. While most digital cameras allopw you to preview your images, there are other ways of sharing them. For one, you can email them to those who you wish to view them, or you can burn them to a CD. You can also subscribe to one of the those online image sharing web sites. ...Read More »

Seagate USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive By Stephen Schleicher It looks like a hockey puck, has a four inch tail, and is able to store 13 hours of digital video. It isn’t the latest portable media player, but rather the latest pocket hard drive from Seagate with an impressive 5GB of storage. ...Read More »