Archive for July, 2008

Sony Picture Motion Browser 3.0

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

PMB (Picture Motion Browser) Update Program If you have Sony’s Picture motion Browser either for your camera/camcorder or with the Sony GPS-CS1 Photo tracker, check out the above update. New features include: Upload function for network services Images can be uploaded from PMB to a photo/video sharing website. Labeling / Rating function Labels and ratings [...]

It Takes A Crisis

Friday, July 25th, 2008

It Takes a Crisis – Forbes.com This is an interesting article from Forbes on how Howard Stringer has begun Sony’s turnaround from its past troubled few years. I especially found the part of how the Playstation 3 saved the HD format war to be eye opening. Another fact is that contrary to most rumors, Sony [...]

Go Ask Alice

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

I’ve been wanting to try a new photo technique that involves shooting smoke, and then manipulating the shots by re-coloring and adding layers in Photoshop. I read two articles on the subject and both recommended using incense sticks as the smoke source. I went to my local Wal-Mart and asked one of the workers if [...]

A New Presentation Tool

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

At last week’s E3 gaming conference Sony decided that rather than show powerpoint slides to review statistics, they would use the level creator in their upcomin game Little Big Planet to make the stats presentation more interesting. So, while Jack Tretton read through the numbers, one of the game desginers used the PS3 controller to [...]

Where’s the HD Video Series?

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Back in the 1960s, companies woud tout new and improved features of their products in TV commercials. The commercials would show what the improvement did, but to sidestep exactly how it was improved the following line was invariably used: “It would take a scientist to explain it.” That statement applies very much to the situation [...]