Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Tuesday, November 11, 2003

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Minolta DiMAGE A1 review: "Our full in-depth review of Minolta's DiMAGE A1 digital camera. The A1 is the sucessor to the popular DiMAGE 7 series, it is Minolta's new flagship prosumer digital camera and carries one of the widest range of features of any digital camera on the market. The DiMAGE A1's vital specs are a wide angle seven times optical zoom lens, a five megapixel CCD sensor, Anti-Shake image stabilization, a metal body, tilting LCD monitor, tilting EVF, Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery..." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]


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Mac OS X 10.3 - the definitive Panther review: "Ars Technica's Apple Technology Expert John Siracusa is back with one of his trademarked reviews, this time covering Panther." [Ars Technica]

Good work by Ars Techica! I disagree with some of the observations, but this is in any case one of the best software reviews I have ever read.


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Infinitely expressive smileys: "This highly tweakable smiley-generator is part of a computational semiotics project to refine the expressivity of machine-mediated communications." [Boing Boing Blog]