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Engadget on the newly released Nikon D3S
“the camera truly delivers the goods when it comes to high ISO shooting — something that’s particularly evident in the stunning wildlife video shot by Vincent Munier…”
It’s a new day for low light shooting… video or still.
via Nikon D3S shows its high ISO prowess in two sample videos.

From today’s federal budget announcement in Ottawa, the Conservatives announced that they will:
- introduce a temporary 100-per-cent capital cost allowance depreciation rate for computers purchased after today and before Feb. 1, 2011.
via TheStar.com | Federal Budget | Tax relief aims to get Canadians spending now.
Oh boy… don’t tempt me. Does my BlackBerry Storm count? [...]

New Dashboard Design « Blog « WordPress.com.
If you’re using wordpress.com you’ll notice the new dashboard design right away. It’s awesome! If you’re self hosting a WP install, you’ll have to wait until Dec 10th sometime next week.
And if you’re not using wordpress… well, then you’re not affected by this announcement at all.

Installing Quicksilver
Last week I decided I would install Quicksilver and give it a try.
Well, as it turns out my little quip about installing Quicksilver was prescient, because I ran into a bit of a hitch while trying to unzip and mount the image file for Quicksilver.
My troubles began after I downloaded the file from the [...]

“When working with Leopard on laptops, make sure to consider the realities of older units with less space and/or small solid state drives. Leopard typically clocks in at over 8GB for a typical install. That leaves very little space on an old 20GB hard drive (vintage TiBook, anyone?) or a 16GB (or even 64GB) solid [...]