The SLR Digital Camera is fast becoming a complete replacement for normal SLR Cameras, much like the recent exodus on consumer cameras that has crippled many companies who did not adopt to the digital phenomenon..

The use of digital SLR cameras has vastly reduced many of teh significant problems found in the film based SLR cameras. Though one major issue has always been that there has never been a duel lcd screen to allow off the hip or from the ground easy picture taking.

This issue is mainly because an extra LCD screen would make the camera extremely bulky and much heavier. This is something that has hindered progress on flexible screens on digital SLR cameras since they first became available.

Until now.

In recent years technological advancements have been focused around the high tech industry, but rather like a caveman in the 90’s it has taken the genius of the team at flipbac to provide us with a genius cheap and flexible device.

The Flipbac angle viewfinder is an amazing product which allows the photographer to change his viewing angle of the digital camera screen with nothing more than a small mirror with a small attachment device that fit most Digital SLR Cameras!

This handy little viewing divice has raised a storm from the digital SLR enthusiasts, many of whom still promote the optical viewfinder as the only true way to take photo’s. The truth of the matter is though that this growing minority are keeping themselves locked away from a huge convenience and speed factor in picture taking!

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Many people who bought the iPod touch later regretted their decision as the iPhone, with similair performance but phone capabilites.  Fortunately a new piece o fsoftware has been released which comes at least some way to bridging the divide.

The Truphone currenly only lets you ring other Truphone and Google talk users via a WiFi network. (So slightly more limited than an iPohne as you need ana vailable connection)  This is all via VOIP so once you have converted you iPod touch to an iPhone you will be able to make 100% free calls to other users.

Truphoen have also announced that the app they have created to allow calls from an iPod Touch will soon be able to make calls to landlines and mobiles, current pricing structures are currently in creation.

Personally I think this is great news for iPod Touch users who wanted a bit more flexibility with their device.  The Truphone iPod touch to iPhone conversion software is available to download on the Apple iStore! for Free!

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The new Nokia N97 is a beauty to behold, but under the sleek smooth exterior is held an amazing array of smart, useful and downright clever functions for its users.

First lets cover the basics, this phone is similair to many stand alone personal internet devices, but this device contains both a sliding screen and a full QUERTY keyboard.

This phone, while having the telecommunications functionality also has a GPS function which is used by the device not only for route finding but also to automatically update all your social website accounts with your location and to tag images you take with were they were taken!

The home page itself has links to several social networking sites, but it is fully customizable for anyone who would like different websites at the click of a finger.

Under the hood of this beautiful device we have more surprises than you could shake a rabid chincilla at.  For starters the device has 32GB of storage BUILT IN! with flash upgrade capacity of an extra 16GB.  It has a media player built in, and WiFi for at home browsing and file transfers.  On top of this it is fully 3G compatable for ont eh move browsing and downloading.

The camera on this device is a top notch 5 megapixel godsend which is surprisingly good in low light and normal situations. It has the good ol’ Carl Zeiss lens so you are guaranteed a high quality shot!

While this phone has broken the trend of touch screen, better for texting but worse for web browsing, I do predict it will be a massive success on it’s release in Europe in the beginning of 2009.  For 550 euros though the N97 is a little pricy for many people!

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The Nokia N85 is the latest Nokia phone to hit the market.  While currently lagging behind many other phone manufacturers Nokia has released phone after phone with briliant features and yet a scarily high price tag. The N85 is unfortunately no exception, with a starting price of $400 it has a cost that would make Chuck Norris wince.  And yet the Nokia phone itself is still strangely aluring. With the remarkable Nokia two way slider giving easy access to the music lovers media keys and the other giving the old texting keys, sadly missing on several of the newr phones, the N85 remains a great combination.But the Nokia N85 really is well equipped with anything all but the most pedantic of phone lovers could want, its stylish exterior contains a well designed media player, easily navagated menu, GPS System and a fantastic 5mp camera.   In a bit more detail lets look at those functions for a music lover, ontop of the slider function you have a 3.5ml jack for headphones, great loudspeakers and a fast multimedia player you also have an FM transmitter, so for all those long car journeys hey presto you got yourself some music! Those wanting the usual phone functions will eb gla to hear the N85 has fantastic battery life, due in part to the N85’s OLED screeen, new technology providing lower power consuption with crisper images.  Product life will be a bit shorter but hey, phones only last a few years anyway!Those looking to use the camera will be impressed by this phone, which unlike many other cell phones has great night image picture taking.  the 5 mega pixels gives you high quality images and the phones memory is easily upgradable for those with a trigger happy finger. All in all I love this phone, but the price tag is just that bit too much for me.  Those with money to burn and quality in mind though will addore this feature rich multi purpose phone!  

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The Motorola ZN5 is the latest camera phone to hit the market.  Infact it is such a high specced device that it is more like the latest Camera with a handy mobile phone attached.

The Motorola ZN5 is a combination of the Motorola brand with , get this Kodak, the brand you once saw everywhere! Kodak have just began a serious foray into the digital world by teaming up with Motorola to release a camera phone with unbeatable specifications!

But things get better, ontop of the 5 megapixel camera that comes with this phone it also has WiFi built in, so no more cable, simply walk into your house and you can instantly upload all of your photos straight to your computer!

As an addition to the Motorola ZN5’s camera functionality not only does it have a brilliant camera inside but it also has a TV link, so if you have a handy TV nearby you can see all your photos on the big screen!

In a move from most phone cameras the Motorola has a defining  0.2 second click to capture time for taking pictures, that means that when you press that button the picture gets taken, unlike many other phone cameras where you may find yourself waiting for upto 2 seconds for the photo to be taken.

Personally I love this phone, and it’s smooth curved finish.  I think it is a breath of fresh air from a phone company that has found itself well behind the times compared to other  phone companies, much like kodak which was left behind with the digital revolution.

I look forward to seeing more from these previously redundant companies as they appear to be making an offencive cmoback with stylish well designed and feature heavy mobile camera cellphones!

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Shiro, one of Japans leading MP3 player marketers ahs come up with the new Solar powered Mp3 player.  Its specs are nto that amazing but only 4 hours in direct sunlight will give your MP3 player a full battery, or around 6 hours playtime.

The MP3 player itself has a standard but adequate 16gb hard drive and 1.6 inch lcd screen.  When teh sun isn’t out it has a USB power adapter to refill the old power cells!

Many users may find it’s control system unintuitive though, especially in the face of products such as the iPhone!

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From Geekywood

Adobe, the worlds leading graphics design software manufacturer, have today anounced teh specs of th eeagerly awaited Photoshop CS4.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 is a ground breaking on several levels, first and foremost its graphic card utilization, a first outside the Apple Mac, and defiantely something that should be worrying the ol’ iPod creators.

The graphic card utilization gives Photoshop CS4 a whole new level of graphic manipulation, veiwing and modification power, greatly reducing lag. Mix this is with CS4’s 64bit compatability and its new Pixel Bending technology (Reduces rendering time on special effects) and suddenly CS4 is not only a more diverse, but also a much, much quicker product.

Along with the new speediness you also have Flash compatability now, allowing greater flexibility when creating flash documents and a new host of tools within photoshop!

My allover favorite feature though is content aware scaling, this can stretch and distort an image while retaining key areas. Say for interest stretching an image of a couple walking on the beach, you can stretch the image to the length you want while retainingt he size of the settnig sun and avoiding the couple becoming grotesquely fat!

All in all I love the new Adobe Photoshop CS4 and look forward to buying it on release!

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