Although the world seems to revolve around Photoshop, there are many alternative and market specific, lower-cost art packages around. EazyDraw – now onto its sixth version – is one. It is by no means cheap but it fits a specific need, and for the wealth of vector drawing options it gives you, it sure is comprehensively satisfying. The package gives you free reign to tackle a wide range of artwork, but it is more at home with technical drawings … [Read more...]
Sony RX100 II
Big-hitting optics poured into a properly compact camera Not only does the RX100 II have the highest megapixel count on test – 20.2, pixel fans – and a bigger-than-usual one-inch, back illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor, it also packs a bright, f/1.8 aperture Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens, with a 3.7x optical zoom. It’s the cat’s pyjamas and it all comes artfully stuffed into a sturdy but slimline case. ISO sensitivity that stretches to 12,800 … [Read more...]
Olympus Stylus 1
Looks just like a miniature DSLR and shoots like one, too The Stylus 1 has a serious, angular design that echoes Olympus’s flagship OM-D cameras. The look is “DSLR that’s had a mishap with a shrink ray” and the handling is similarly pro, with a decent grip and a viewfinder as well as the three-inch, tilting touchscreen. A bright aperture lens is bolted on to the front like the others in this test, but in the case of the Stylus 1 it provides … [Read more...]
Angry Birds Site Hacked Following NSA Revelations
The Angry Birds site was damaged by programmers, the organization behind the diversion has affirmed, after disclosures that America's National Security Agency and the UK's GCHQ have been focusing on the site's "flawed" client information. A picture utilizing the NSA logo and a "spying fledglings" inscription traded the official Angry Birds site for a short time on Tuesday. The hack was according to the disclosure that the Angry Birds … [Read more...]
Chinese Internet Groups See Taxi Apps As Driver For Growth
Two of China’s better internet companies – Alibaba and Tencent – are angry a proxy war over the advantageous adaptable payments bazaar by abetment battling taxi-hailing apps. Alibaba has invested in Kuaidi Dache (“Fast Taxi”), while Hong Kong-listed Tencent, the aggregation abaft babble app WeChat, backs Didi Dache, whose name translates to “Beep Beep Call a Cab”. Auto apps accept become massively accepted in China, area cartage bottleneck on … [Read more...]