One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 29 January 2004

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50 million digital cameras sold in 2003

PMA Data Watch has today released a report showing projected sales figures of digital cameras for 2003. The volume of cameras sold was projected to increase by 64 percent to 50 million units. Europe has led this growth, roughly doubling its sales volume each year. In fact, Europe overtook the Americas during 2003 as the world's largest market for digital cameras, accounting for 36 percent of units sold. Growth in the Americas has been strong nonetheless, rising by 48 percent in 2003,... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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Pre-PMA 2004: Nikon today announced details of its $1000 D70 digital SLR. The D70 appears to be based around either the same or a similar CCD as the D100's (not LBCAST as some had predicted). Body design is also very similar to the D100, a few of the new design hints such as the triangular red stripe on the hand grip come from the D2H. This clearly opens up the entry level digital SLR market yet further providing real competition to the Canon EOS 300D. The D70 will cost $999 as body... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

I'm hoping this will push Canon to respond so that I'll end up saving a bit of money or getting more features on a Rebel D.

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Kodak has today said it would cut as many as 15,000 jobs and take charges of up to $1.7 billion over the next three years as it works through a painful shift toward digital products and away from the waning film market. Kodak has shed some 22,000 jobs in the last five years, cutting its work force to about 64,000 in 2003 from 86,000 in 1998. Another story from Kodak today is that that are buying the remaining 41% of Chinon Industries to take full control. Chinon Industries, established... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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I used to share the same iPhoto Library with my wife, using a standard unix symbolic link so that the folder "iPhoto Library" in my wife's home folder was actually a symbolic link pointing to my real folder in my home, and re... [macosxhints]

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I've seen other hints regarding Bookmarklets in Safari, and I figured I'd share a few that I've created to resize/reposition the browser window. Note: All "Clickable" Bookmarklet examples in this hint can be dragged directly ... [macosxhints]

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What a Difference a Day Makes
It's amazing how warm -32 can feel after a couple of days of -45 plus weather! [Janet's Radio Weblog]

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What a joke. It's pretty clear to everyone which nation wanted to decieve. How stupid do they think we are?

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Former US weapons inspector David Kay says intelligence failures over Iraqi arms must be probed by a public inquiry. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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A new strain of the Mydoom worm could spread more widely than its predecessor warn experts. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Body of soldier killed in Afghanistan arrives in Canada
The flag-draped casket of Cpl. Jamie Murphy arrived at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ont., Thursday morning. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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A new form of matter - only the sixth ever seen - has been made in the lab - could provide a new way to generate electricity. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'The new matter is the sixth known form of matter after solids, liquids, gasses, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in 1995.'

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Senior clerics accuse drug firms of ignoring the plight of Aids victims, as the Pope asks Catholics to help African children. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]