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The technology means that taking typically sized shots (say, 5 megapixels) the camera can use oversampling to combine up to seven pixels into one “pure” pixel, eliminating the visual noise found on other mobile phone cameras. On top of that, you can zoom in up to 3X without losing any of the details in your shot – and there’s no artificially created pixels in your picture, either.
Otherwise, you can use ‘Creative Shooting Mode’ to capture images at high resolution – 38 megapixels; then reframe, crop and zoom to find the best “picture within the picture” after the image has been shot and before saving it at convenient sizes for sharing and storage.
”— On the Nokia PureView 41MP camera phone
Good luck explaining that to your average consumer. It sounds like the kind of technology that would be great in a point-and-shoot or a mirrorless camera, but in a camera phone, users just want to snap a quick picture, maybe apply a filter and share it with their friends.
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GORUCK: bringing strangers together via the Internet and a common love of bags.
The GR1 (leftmost) is mine, the Radio Ruck (middle) belongs to Anil and the GR Echo (rightmost) was mine until I sold it at this meeting. Unfortunately, as the amount of gear I have to carry on a daily basis has increased, I’ve had to upscale my everyday bag to the GR1.
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The GORUCK GR Echo that I ordered a couple of weeks ago just arrived (I also ordered its bigger brother, the GR2, but it’s still in transit and is somewhere in California at present read my review here). I haven’t found that many reviews of it online so I thought I’d post some pictures and first impressions.
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David Sparks:
A surprising number of attendees at my Macworld talk about OmniFocus were not aware that you could show start date items in the iPad version’s Forecast View.
He isn’t joking. Myself and a number of my fellow OmniFocus nerds who were in attendance had no idea this setting existed. Incredibly useful if you spend any time in OmniFocus for iPad’s Forecast view.
I had no idea about this either – but it’s awesome. This should be switched on by default.
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This is why the Kindle is the perfect reading device, even though it may not be the perfect device. There are no distractions while you are reading, allowing you to get lost in your book.
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Tough sking in La Vallée Perdue, Tignes
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re·spon·sive
Adjective: Reacting quickly and positively.
I’m happy to say that the redesigned look and feel for the site is up and running – this was one of my new year’s resolutions and I’m proud to say that it’s only taken a week to get it coded from scratch to live on the site.
I have to give some credit to the great Tumblr custom theme documentation, Twitter Bootstrap and the amazingly useful 320 and up project. There are so many great frameworks out there for kickstarting your development and I highly recommend giving them a look. The Twitter Bootstrap in particular (version 1.4.0 at present) has an upcoming 2.0 update which introduces fully responsive CSS.
Anyway – I hope you like the new look. If you have any comments, or spot a bug, send me a tweet or leave a comment.
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Stealthy but patriotic. A new patch for my GORUCK GR1.
