By JamesW on Apr 26, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
There’s a new banker in town, and he doesn’t care about how much money you have or you owe. He runs a new kind of bank that checks out your carbon footprint, then sends you a bill, or issues you a credit, depending on whether or not you’ve been environmentally naughty or nice. As [...]
By JamesW on Apr 23, 2008 in Audio, Entertainment, Featured, NAB, Software, Video | 0 Comments
It’s like having your own personal composer, i.e., Hans Zimmer-in-a-Can; and you don’t have to be a Beethoven to use it. Its a new software product, called “Abaltat Muse”, from the Ireland based company, Abaltat (www.abaltat.com). They call it the “worlds first video-driven soundtrack composer”.
First, you import your video segment into the program. Muse can [...]
By MaxW on Apr 17, 2008 in Featured, Rants & Raves, World | 0 Comments
During a recent trip I made a shocking discovery; I pulled into a gas station next to the freeway, got out and almost put my credit card into the pump before I realized that they where charging a premium for using a credit card.
I stood there for about a minute trying to figure out why [...]
By MaxW on Apr 15, 2008 in Cameras, Featured, NAB | 1 Comment
We’ve got pictures and videos for this article but none will convey the realism of this new technology - it is so crystal clear it almost hurts to look at. Feature this: the camera shoots at a resolution of 8k, and is displayed on their Ultra High Definition TV System, with 4320-scanning lines (7680 [...]
By MaxW on Apr 14, 2008 in Cameras, Featured, NAB | 0 Comments
Sony is unveiling its first color professional camera viewfinder using Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) Technology.
The HDVF-EL100 is an 11 inch display and is Sony’s first non-consumer application of an OLED panel. Consumer OLED displays were introduced in January, and continue to generate strong demand.
“High-definition acquisition requires extremely precise focusing, allowing the operator to accurately [...]
By MaxW on Apr 12, 2008 in Featured, How-To | 7 Comments
NOTE: I am currently trying to sell the CNC that is in this article, If you are interested please contact me at Max@9xnet.com. Thanks for all your continued support!
Building your own CNC Router can be a fun and exciting project. CNC stands for Computer Numeral Control and is used to cut designs that were [...]
By JamesW on Apr 10, 2008 in Featured, Is it Real? | 0 Comments
It’s hard to escape coming across the name “Stan Meyers” when researching this technology. Stan Meyers began making news in the early 1990’s, having claimed a major breakthrough in Hydrogen power. In fact, he attracted the attention of the Pentagon with his breakthrough (their interes: “Star Wars” and tanks. Oh well, whatever [...]
By JamesW on Apr 8, 2008 in Event Coverage, Featured, World | 0 Comments
You know Ben & Jerry, the two loveable old guys from the 60’s that have made ice-cream forever, and have always been active in worthy causes (why can’t we get presidents as honest and down-to-earth as these guys?). Anyway, they have just developed and dedicated one of the strangest sounding frozen concoctions you can [...]
By JamesW on Apr 5, 2008 in Announcements, Featured, Photoshop | 0 Comments
Techimoto has recently acquired the Webdogpro.com website and related publishing rights from 9xnetworks. Webdogpro.com started in 2003, focusing on publishing quality Photoshop tutorials and related articles. At its peak, Webdogpro realized over 4 million page views a month, and is referenced via 1000’s of links from other websites.
Techimoto will rebuild the current tutorial [...]
By JamesW on Apr 2, 2008 in Featured, Rants & Raves, World | 0 Comments
BioFuel Now Competes Directly with Worlds Food Supply
Are you wondering why your grocery dollars aren’t stretching quite as far? In Mexico City, a barely publicized riot, called “The Tortilla Riots”, break out in protest of escalating corn prices (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6319093.stm) and sharply rising flour prices destabilize Pakistan. In Sudan, a grocer that supplies the countries needy [...]