Image Scrimmage by Chin Wong
BACK when the speed of PCs was measured in megahertz, most serious graphics design work was done on powerful and expensive workstations. The arrival of more powerful PCs would change all that. As processors became faster and memory became cheaper, software developers began writing graphics... Photoshop works with raster graphics or bitmaps, which store information about each individual dot or pixel used to make up an image. ... The growing popularity of digital cameras only served to strengthen the program’s position as the de facto standard for image manipulation.

Widescreen 16:9 High-Def: Oh My! Here's the Skinny on Going Wide by Michelle Carey
That's ironic, considering the whole purpose of HD is to provide a clearer picture! Let's see if we can un-muddy the waters a little bit. The first thing to understand in the world of widescreen is that it involves two concepts that don't always come together: aspect ratio and resolution. ... You need to be prepared to spend over twice the amount for a WXGA (1366x768) equivalent, and without a true digital HD system from front to back, you won't gain much from this investment in the short run. ... Even though there are some drawbacks, this option allows churches who in the past could not...

Printer Buying Guide by Jeffrey Lawrence
Printers are essential peripherals, performing a critical role as they render electronic information into tangible records or material output. You’re simply not using your computer to its fullest potential if you are unable to print reports, presentations, letters, photos, or whatever it is you... PictBridge is a standard adopted by manufacturers of printers and digital cameras for PC-free printing, allowing photos to be printed straight from the digital camera to the printer by simply connecting them through a USB cable — as long as the printer and digital camera are compatible.

The Future "Mobile Me" iPod from Apple and Intel by John Thomas
I was reading an article today and my light bulb finally went on - Blam! I really got how cool the Apple and Intel deal is… I spend a fair amount of my time working with startups and I am convinced that 95% of innovation occurs in small companies. Only a small percentage of these fledgling... If you feel creative, use the integrated camera to video conference with a friend or capture some scenes while you are on vacation to share with your family back home. ... A few months ago Intel launched a it’s Digital Communities Initiative, to help cities across the globe build their own wireless...

What Television Shoppers Need to Know by Andrew Gates
With all the changes in technology and program content, buying a tv set is not as simple as it once was. While it is easy to be tempted to buy the one that looks prettiest in the advertisement or on the showroom floor, it's not always the best fit for your circumstances. ... Watching high-resolution DVD and digital TV on a wide screen set however, provides much sharper images than regular sets, and this means you can sit closer and experience a more immersive, theatre-like picture. ... The main advantages these two technologies offer includes the smaller space taken up (mostly in depth)...

Review - Sony PSP by Alex Mayo
I'm fairly certain there are folks at Nintendo feeling some serious self-loathing right about now. You see, back in the mid-90's Nintendo contracted Sony to develop a CD-ROM drive for the Super Nintendo. As the project progressed, a number of factors (one of them being the spectacular failure of... Since the PSP uses standard Memory Stick Duo format chips, if you have a digital camera that uses MS Duo sticks, you can simply slap the stick from your digican into the PSP and browse to your heart's content.

All About DVD Part 1: DVD Format by Artem Chlegov
Types of DVD and history of development It's been a long time since DVD became common in our everyday life. However, most people don't seem to know what it is exactly. Answers to questions like "what sort of arcane symbols are printed on disk boxes" , "how come DVD is different from CD if... DTS (Digital Theater System) is another digital audio compression format, introduced by Steven Spielberg as an alternative to Dolby Digital. ... Dolby Digital EX is more advanced version of Dolby Digital.

Screenshots Vista Windows by Adam Fletcher
Features Additionally, Vista will include many other new features. Aero Vista will include a completely re-designed user interface, code-named Aero. The new interface is intended to be cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing than previous Windows interfaces. ... Native Raw Image support (a format used by most professional digital cameras). ... At least 32 bits per pixel. ... Capable of drawing ~1.5M triangles / second, one window being ~150 triangles. ... A memory bandwidth of 2 GB / second. ... 3D hardware acceleration with capabilities equal to DirectX 9.

Steganography in Principle by Emmanuel Sodipo
1.0 Introduction Steganography is one of the oldest arts that people have always wanted to have since they started communicating with each other, but sadly the least researched. Most people study steganography either as academic discipline or out of curiosity and I belong to the latter camp. ... Systems and techniques that can uncover hidden information will be useful in computer forensics and digital traffic analysis. ... The most common attack is to display the least significant bit of an object; Digital equipments such as cameras and scanners are not perfect and often leave echoes in...