If you’re deeply in love with your Windows XP system, and don’t want to hear about Windows 7 or the fancier 8, then here’s a hack that should let you get free updates until 2019.
Be well aware that it’s a hack, therefore slightly techy, not recommended by Microsoft, and barely legal. At your own risk.
Via Vincent Abry and THN
Recent news on the latest game engine that will be featured in upcoming games from editor Ubisoft. Or how fast real-time CG technology is coming a step closer to photorealism.
Via Sploid
Vincent Laforet and Vimeo have recently released three nice videos showing how work focal length, aperture and DoF (Depth of Field). Recommended for the neophyte.
– A smart guy playing with Photoshop found two very simple tricks to make it run faster. I’ve tried them both at home and at work on Windows 7 and OSX, and it seems to help a bit with large size images or when dealing with multiple files open at the same time.
©David Noton
– The Photography Blog had an interesting article a couple months ago about long exposure photography, written by David Noton and illustrated with some of his beautiful images. Highly recommended for landscape shooters.
– The people behind “I’m a photographer, not a terrorist” campaign and website organise a flash mob on Trafalgar Square on Saturday 23rd January 2010, at 12.00 (Noon).
– CoolIris Express has been announced earlier this month. This is a new tool designed to help people with very little coding or web designing skills to put together online galleries. More details on The Photography Blog again.
See for informations on John Nack’s blog, Photography Bay and Light Mods among others.
You can also download Lightroom 3 Beta for free following this link.
Polaroid official announcement that they will put back in production a limited serie of their Polaroid 1000 instant camera in 2010.
(Via)
People shooting with films out there will be thrilled to know that Epson has announced a new Perfection v600 flatbed scanner. This is an upgrade from the previous model, featuring improvements in terms of energy-efficiency.
More details and all the technical stuff can be found in this article on Photography Bay.
The Impossible Project gathers former employees of Polaroid’s Dutch factory and passionate investers trying to revive the Polaroid film production. In the meantime, Polaroid owners have to hunt for remaining films in stock, as for instance at Stanley in Central London, where they have about 400 boxes for the Polaroid 600 available for £28.
Via BBC News
Graphic Shard has a bunch of new Photoshop lighting effects tutorials online today.
