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Canon Digital Rebel T1i vs. Nikon D5000

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Coke versus Pepsi. Mac versus PC. Canon versus Nikon. Among these great rivalries, we can only pick out one clear winner. (Here’s a hint: It’s not the colored sugar water.) In the latest Canon-versus-Nikon entry-level digital SLR (single-lens reflex) battle, both cameras score hits against the other. It’s the DSLR version of Mac vs. PC–except without as obvious a winner. But in the end, they’re much more similar than different. If you already use a film camera from either camera maker–and own a few lenses–don’t bother switching sides. If you’re not already invested in hardware that only works with one of them, your decision is much more nuanced. After much debate, we give a tiny edge to the Nikon D5000 for its impressive high-ISO performance. But you could just as easily fall in love with the Canon Rebel T1i for its slightly brighter, clearer LCD. Canon Digital Rebel T1i The T1i is light in your palm, weighing about 1.5 pounds with the bundled lens. We felt comfortable slinging it around and shooting with just one hand in one of the auto modes.

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Feb

Meet Tim Blane, Your GarageBand Teacher

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If you take the Basic Lessons on GarageBand ’09, your improving finger work on the guitar and piano will be thanks to a guy who introduces himself at the beginning of each segment as just “Tim.” That’s Tim Blane , a Boston singer-songwriter with a decade of live performances under his belt. Other credentials include ringtones for Pepsi, he also opened for Guster and KT Tunstall and writes his own soulful pop tunes . When Blane received an e-mail from an Apple guy last summer saying that he’d seen Blane’s clips online and wondered if he would be interested in auditioning for a job, he jumped at the chance. “I thought maybe they needed someone to show up at a trade show,” recalls Blane, who was sent a script and flown to LA for an on-camera audition. Nearly a thousand actors and musicians auditioned for the gig. Four screen tests later Steve Jobs selected Blane, who has never taught a lesson in his life, to be GarageBand ’s music instructor. “They didn’t want a preachy vibe, but more a vibe of sitting down with your little brother. I had a great time, although I had to wear super HD makeup on my face and hands and arms. I think I ate more makeup than lunch.” Via MacDaily News , Boston Globe

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Jan

HockeyGPS Aims to Locate Cool Spots Nearby

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I’m a big hockey fan — cheering on the Colorado Avalanche and playing whenever I get the chance. So when HockeyGPS (free) came out for the iPhone and iPod touch, I had to give it a try. The basic idea behind the app is that it will locate nearby hockey facilities of any kind, or in the words of Hockey Science & Technology – the developers of the app: Easily find and navigate to locations such as hockey arenas, skill development or training centres and retail locations selling hockey equipment, skate sharpening services, hockey memorabilia and so much more. This sounds great, and even offers the ability for you to add local resources that may not be included in the database yet. The concept has some merit, but unfortunately, HockeyGPS is pretty rough around the edges out of the gate. The user interface, always a hot topic for Apple folks, is horrendous. (To be fair, the icon is actually decent.) There’s a text entry box for searching which you leave empty in order to get all results. I’d have opted for a button that just said something like, “Hockey Nearby” but that’s probably just me. The best looking part is the results listing screen, but once you touch a result to see the details, it degrades awful quickly. The result details page looks like an HTML iframe, and moves around if you touch and drag. You can call the facility, open Safari for the website, or have it mapped in the iPhone Google Maps application. The screen for entering your own spots for inclusion in the database is equally sparse and unappealing. To top it all off, the screens are sluggish to respond to your touch! So the look and feel aren’t there, but could be saved by good content

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Jan

My words are hollow, Rataxes!

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1984 was around the time that Steve Jobs recruited John Scully from Pepsi (maker of Mountain Dew) by saying: “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want a chance to change the world?”

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Jan

Vintage Coke Machine Office

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Craftster.org member DogGrrl posted pictures of their excellent room, painstakingly painted and decorated to look like a diner . Just the murals are impressive enough to warrant it a second look, but buried on the fourth page of the thread is a link to DogGrrl’s office : A vintage Coke machine on the outside… and an impressive iMac house on the inside! DogGrrl says: “ To compliment my new dining room mural I bought an old unworking coke machine, gutted it and then sent it to a friend to weld some shelves onto it. Tada! Here is my new new computer cabinet! The Pepsi and Coke picnic coolers I am using to house my files/office stuff. ” Well done indeed. There’s a nice keyboard tray in there, a shelf for the printer, space for files and a phone, and the inside of the door is neatly multi-purposed as a magnetic calendar and note holder!

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