An All Too Familar Pain by Chris Cameron
Lost & Found for the 21st Century In today’s hectic world more and more people are turning to those handy gadgets and mobile products that can be taken with them anywhere they go. The more things consumers own, the more they're prone to lose them. This in mind we actually went out and tested a... Lastly we left a digital camera sitting out in the open in Hyde park. ... Having personally lost my camera while holidaying in Greece earlier in the year I knew how annoyed the owner would be. ... The camera was found by someone in Hyde Park and within the hour Want it Bak had taken the call and...

MP3 Players -- Many Capable Underdogs vs. the 800-lb. Gorilla by Zed Hayden
Anyone lover of gadgets and portable electronics knows what an Ipod is – and in fact, many people who have no interest in personal electronics know exactly what they are. With over 21 million units shipped, and over 75 per cent of the personal Digital Audio Player (DAP) market worldwide, it’s no... SanDisk (a maker of Secure Digital flash memory) offers the Sansa series of MP3 players, with the distinction of being able to accept the same SD cards as many digital cameras, offering additional storage options and the flexibility to swap music collections without long transfer times.

Review: USB Copy Cruiser Plus from Aleratec by G Mo
The USB Copy Cruiser Plus is a USB copy device with the additional convenience of an 8-in-1 card reader. The unit will copy from one memory device to another or from one memory device to a USB flash drive without the need of a PC. This OTG (On-The-Go) USB technology is very useful and the USB... The copier simplifies the process for many tasks including photographers looking to off-load data from their digital camera, quickly share data between people without booting up a computer, or use as a one-to-one USB flash drive duplicator.

Choosing an ID Card System by Marcela Devivo
Choosing an ID card system is less difficult than it seems at first. Once you get past the jargon, there are really only several components that you need, and choosing them is based on what you need, what type of business or company you are, and how much security you require. ... An ID card system consists of a digital camera and software, a computer, a printer with software, an encoder, and a specific amount of card materials. ... If you're a small company on a tight budget, all you really need are the basic or standard packages; on the other hand, if you're really worried about security,...

Computer Memory - Flash Memory by Michael Russell
Flash memory is a form of EEPROM memory, which is Electrically-Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory. It allows more than one location to be written to and erased in just one operation. Flash memory is what is called non-volatile. That means it does not need power to retain the information that... It is because of these features that flash memory is so popular in devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants. ... After that a number of others followed such as MMC, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, and x-D Picture Cards.

Tips For Buying A Great Backup Hard Drive by Cedric H. Dirose
Any computer user who has ever suffered a loss of important data understands how important it is to have a good backup hard drive in place. Unfortunately, many of us do not get a good understanding of the importance of having a backup until it is too late. ... For instance, the advent of digital photography has led many people to store their digital photographs on their hard drives, and nowhere else. ... Most owners of digital cameras end up printing out only a small percentage of their photos, choosing instead to store them on their computer hard drives.

The Apple Mac mini - It Fits Anywhere And It is The Most Affordable Mac Ever! by Bonnie Archer
Mac OS X, the worlds most advanced operating system! Just connect, plug, and your playing. The Apple Mac mini will work with either Mac or PC-compatible peripherals, this makes it easier than ever to upgrade from and older Mac or PC system. All you have to do is connect your USB mouse and... Now this is power packed into a small package - Apple has outdone themselves! ... Under the sleek anodized aluminum styling of the Mac mini is a G4 processor, room for up to 1GB PC2700 main memory, a Radeon 9200 graphics chip, and a large enough hard drive, up to 80 GB, to store todays digital media.

Floppies-The Portables of the Past - YRU Still Using Floppies? by Jack Wilson
Floppy disks have been in use for decades and have served us well. They can hold 1.44 megabytes of information and are more or less infinitely re-writeable. (Till they inexplicably de-format themselves just when you need them most). New computers today are usually sold without floppy drives. ... You can buy a small digital card drive (The kind cameras use) for a few dollars. ... Nifty for small needs and can even be sent by surface mail (I refuse to say “snail mail”) if you are too dumb (scratch ‘dumb’, replace with ‘techno-ignorant’ or ‘digitally-phobic‘) to email the data.

Photoshop Tutorial Secrets From the Trenches:Seven Essential Steps to Digital Workflow by Robert Provencher
I've been shooting with digital cameras in my portrait and wedding photography studio for about five years now, and in that time I've taken well over 50,000 exposures. Our studio has been around for about twenty five years, and it is busy, so creating a digital workflow that made sense was... You will never hear about this in any digital photography course or book. ... Here are the seven steps to digital photography workflow: 1-Good capture: This is the starting point. ... The images that come off the camera tend to look a little flat, dull and sometimes not sharp.

DreamBox All In One CCTV Solution by Efrat Levi
DreamBox (DB) Short Description DreamBox (DB) is a real time synergetic multimedia surveillance system for homeland security and general CCTV use. DreamBox, with its built-in ETX Pentium and 11 DSP’s, processes information such as video, audio and data. ... Each DB performs a number of independent processes which include video compression, audio/video transmission, digital recording, content analysis algorithms (such as outdoor and indoor video motion detection), digital/analog acquisition, data transfer over multiple network types , synchronized playback of video and audio, digital...