A brief statement of assorted impressions of the new HP Z printers from time spent with them at HP’s development and design center in Barcelona. Below are some quick impressions of the Z printers. I’ll follow up with more detailed coverage soon. These are real nice printers. I was fortunate enough to spend time evaluating [...]

Site Innervision shows the fine art x-ray photography of Steven N. Meyers As the first such site that I am giving awards to that use x-ray photographic techniques, perhaps I should explain what I find interesting about this area in general. The resulting images from x-ray photography, even if one will never have the opportunity [...]

Newsletter usability has increased since our last study, but the competition for users’ attention has also grown with the ever-increasing glut of information. In his latest report, Jakob Nielsen takes an indepth look at email newsletters and how readers use them. The short version can be read here.

Latest Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox draws your attention to eye flow patterns. In the latest Jakob Nielson Alertbox newsletter he discusses the results of tests done on tracking eye movement over typical web pages. It is quite interesting and potentially very useful information for web site designers. The report can be seen at this link.

How is it that you can put an infrared filter on the front of effectively all digital cameras and get an IR image? In this article we set out to examine how this happens and how to interpret the results. All digital image sensors are sensitive to more than visible light. They have extended sensitivity [...]

How much difference does 10MP vs. 8MP really make. This very informal test is the start of a deeper look at resolution issues. There was a lot of disappointment that the 20D replacement, the 30D wasn’t a 10 or 12MP camera. But just how significant is 10MP compared to 8MP? Well, while I have a [...]

In response to questions, we get some answers from Canon about ink going stale Following on from the earlier article about Epson ink use by dates and ink going stale, we contacted Canon for their angle. Their response is below: From Canon’s experience, they have not encountered issues with useby dates on cartridges. Cartridges are [...]

Questions have been asked about ink going stale. I asked Epson about this. In response to some questions floating around on the internet about whether inkjet ink can go stale, I put the following questions to Epson: Does Epson’s inkjet ink have a ‘useby date’ before it goes stale, both for unopened cartridges and for [...]

WatchMouse research shows that 71% of IBEX websites availability is below industry standards Press Release Of the top 35 funds listed on the Bolsa de Madrid (IBEX), 25 havewebsites with poor to dramatically poor availability. Many of the sitesare badly accessible or unavailable for more than an hour per month. The worst site, that of [...]

Epson has released new lightfastness ratings from testing done for them by the Wilhelm Instutute. Below are the latest figures from Epson on expected display life oftheir inks and papers. All the new R series printers with the HQ inkssit in the second column.  Media 6 color Photo 825, 925, 960, 1280  6 color HQ [...]

E Ink Corporation makes electronic paper display devices Photos and the press releases later in this article supplied by E Ink Corporation. E Ink is the company probably furthest along in the alternativedisplay/print technology area, in terms of getting real products intothe marketplace, at least. Electronic Ink is a clever use of existingtechnology rather than [...]

Third quarter financial results are not positive for Kodak In the third quarter Kodak sales went up by 5%. However, it getsinteresting when you examine the breakdown. Digital products andservices rose by 47%, which is a great result. However traditionalproduct revenue fell by 20% in the quarter. In total, Kodak lostUS$1.029 Billion in the quarter. [...]

Siemens shows color display technology that can be printed onto various surfaces and can display a moving image. At the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt this month, Siemensdemonstrated small color displays that can be printed using commercialprinting processes onto paper and plastics. These very low costdisplays will come to market in 2007. The material [...]

A change is coming in user interface design. In Jakob Nielsen’s latest alertbox he discusses the end of the WYSIWYGusere interface design and the development of a new one. He argues thatthe upcoming Microsoft Office 12 demonstrates this new mode of workingand does so effectively. It is an interesting article and well worth reading. Go [...]

In a move that might help out those celebrities who get caught with their pants down (or doing something else embarrassing), researchers are working on a way to stop a digital camera getting a picture. G.I.T. researchers are developing a technology that can block a digital camera from taking a useable picture. The technology works [...]

The new Apple/Motorola mobile/cell phone does not impress The new Motorola ROKR cell phone with iTunes really fails to impressme. It only handles 100 songs and also it is based on a fairlyuninspiring phone. All a bit of a yawn. My new cell phone, the SonyEricsson K750i plays music and takes a Sony Memory Stick [...]

Jakob Nielsen has new advice for web site developers Jacob Nielsen’s excellent useit.com web site has an new alert on how todisplay non-web documents, like PDFs, on your web sites. He advisesthat non-web documents should not display in a web browser, but ratherin another application to make it clear to users about what they arelooking [...]

Canon’s Point and Shoot Cameras In the point and shoot digital area, Canon have many more competitorsthan in dSLRs. Many of these are highly effective companies producinggreat products. The latest releases from Canon build on an already strong range. TheElph (IXUS) models have always been a favorite and the new releasesexpand the offerings in this [...]

Canon has just launched a huge number of new imaging products. What does it all mean? Well, Canon have just done their usual half yearly product blitz. Nowthat we have all read the press releases it is time to consider theconsequences. One of those consequences is that Canon is continuing to lead the fieldin digital [...]

Many MP3 players lack certain features that make then useable for listening to podcasts, seminars and other long material The shift to MP3 players as replacements or additions to CD players,either portable or in cars and homes, offers many real advantages.However many of these devices are quite unsuitable when it comes tolistening to podcasts, seminar [...]

With the European rejection of changes to their patent law to cover software patents, perhaps it is time for a re-think worldwide The massive vote against a proposedchange to patent law in Europe to create a single approach to patentingsoftware means that perhaps all countries should reconsider theirpatent law on software, at the very least. [...]

In an effort to open up Internet usage and ease of use in countries like China and India, SGNIC, the Singapore domain name manager, has begun a trial of internationalised domain names in Chinese and Tamil. SGNIC has started a trial of non-English language character domainnames in Chinese and Tamil. The rationale is that non-English [...]

In this interview we talk to several people with a deep knowledge of digital camera design. While the interview is now two years old, the information in it is still highly relevant. As professional photography moves from being predominantly film basedto predominantly digital, many of us are struggling to come to termswith the key issues [...]