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Friday, September 5, 2003
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Pentax Optio 33WR: "Pentax has today announced the Optio 33WR digital camera. It is a 3.2 megapixel, 2.8X zoom that has a JIS Class 7 water resistance rating, the Optio 33WR remains watertight even when the camera is rinsed, splashed or immersed in water." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Pentax Optio 555: "Pentax has today announced the Optio555 digital camera which is an upgrade to the 550. It is a 5 megapixel, 5X zoom camera which Pentax has maximized the responsiveness of, by reducing lag time so the camera is instantly ready when the power is turned on." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Pentax Optio S4: "Pentax has today announced the launch of the Optio S4 an upgrade to the Optio S. Sporting the same tiny dimensions and light weight of its predecessor, the Optio S4 has a 4.23 effective megapixel CCD, a 3X zoom lens, and a variety of features including a large, easy-to-use manual control playback button." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel Review: "Our full in-depth review of a pre-production Canon EOS 300D / Digital Rebel. We've had the camera for just over ten days and in that time I've managed to produce a review of about the same detail as our normal D-SLR review." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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Backup 2 beta available for .Mac users: "Apple has released a public beta version of its Backup application to users of the subscription-based .Mac online service. The new version can be downloaded by signing in to .Mac now. Backup is designed to provide users with a convenient way to back up and archive data from their Macs to removable storage media like CD-Rs or to the online storage associated with their .Mac accounts. The software includes scheduling features and more"." [MacCentral] Backup 2.0 can also backup to external disks. I'm currently testing if I can backup my PowerBook G4 to a Windows SMB volume using Backup 2.0.
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Unix users to be 'major beneficiaries' of Panther: 'Unix users will be "major beneficiaries" of Panther, the next major rev of Mac OS X, Apple software product manager Darren Sng said at this week's Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) conference at Sydney's Duxton Hotel. LinuxWorld reports that Panther will be bundled with an optional, optimized version of X11, the X window system for graphical user interfaces (GUIs).'
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