Posts Tagged ‘Gear’

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 for $79 (Black Friday)

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 for $79 (Black Friday)

Adobe has Photoshop Lightroom on sale for Black Friday as usual. Grab it while it’s hot!


Taking the plunge into Adobe Creative Cloud

20120607-Adobe-Creative-Cloud-Screenshot

I’m a little late to the game but Adobe Creative Suite 6 was announced a month or so ago. Rather than pay the $1,000+ to follow the CS5 to CS6 Design & Web Premium upgrade path I opted instead to subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud which grants full access to Master Collection. At $29/month for the first year [...]


5.11 Tactical Uniform Shirts on sale for $5.99!

5.11 Tactical B Class Uniform Shirt

Although I haven’t written up a review yet I’ve become a big fan of 5.11 Tactical Taclite Pro vented polyester/cotton ripstop shirts which MSRP for $54.99 USD. They’re absolutely perfect for both photography and travel with hidden document pockets to store your phone, passport, travel documents, memory cards, and anything else you can stuff in! So [...]


Gallery: UDS Oneiric Logistics (April 2011)

UDS Oneiric Ocelot Logistics

Ubuntu Developer Summit Oneiric Ocelot (UDS-O) Logistics at Canonical Group Limited, London, England, UK – 11th – 15th April 2011


Testing out a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus

Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus

Our storage requirements have finally grown enough that it’s no longer feasible to rely on internal drives and direct-attached storage on our notebooks and workstations. Instead, we’ll be testing out a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 6 Plus to split up the workload. All archived projects and old media files that don’t get accessed on a daily basis [...]


Tracking down replacement UPS batteries

APC BR24BP external battery pack

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) batteries have an expected lifespan of 3 to 5 years and need upkeep and maintenance just like your rechargeable camera and flash batteries. Unfortunately, after a failed self-test, maintenance pretty much translates to battery replacement for high-end units or upgrading to a new UPS for low-end consumer units. And, whether replacing [...]


The Canon rumormill is working overtime…

The Canon rumormill is currently buzzing over the fact that dozens of lenses have disappeared off of Canon’s EOS (SLR) Camera Systems Web site and are now in the discontinued product archive. I first noticed the missing products while researching Canon’s last flagship 35mm film body, the Canon EOS-1v, which was also moved to the [...]