I’ve bought an exter­nal hard drive from Iomega from the Silver Series for €184,-
The short mes­sage: that’s el-​cheepo! Stor­age cost diddly-​squat nowa­days, so this was the time to give my stor­age a little Oompf. I’ve con­nected it to my Air­port Extreme, so every­body in the familiy is happy.
Just to put it in per­spec­tive: the National Archives of Britain, which hold 900 years of writ­ten mate­r­ial, con­tains nearly 60 ter­abytes of data. What can you do with all those lovely bytes? Here are the tech specs for this drive:

• Holds 4,000,000 photos
• Holds 18,500 hours of music
• Holds 1,500 hours of video
• USB 2.0 Trans­fer Rate - 480 Mbits/s
• Hard Drives = 2 SATA
• Rota­tional Speed - 7200 RPM
• Memory Cache - up to 8MB
• Format - FAT32
• Volume Con­fig­u­ra­tion - JBOD

Mobile devices are get­ting more and more pow­er­ful by the year. In this demo NVidia shows off their vision on next-​generation mobile phones (at 3GSM). The power behind these graph­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties is their new Mobile GoForce line-​up. Engad­get has a nice arti­cle on the sub­ject. Khronos OpenKODE is used for accel­er­at­ing these vector 2D and 3D graph­ics. I wouldn’t be sur­prised if they would become the de facto stan­dard on a lot of mobile devices.

Adobe today released a new appli­ca­tion called Adobe Light­room. It will com­pete with Apple’s Aper­ture on many fronts, though it’s still in beta stage it looks like a lean, mean and clean appli­ca­tion. It’s avail­able now for testing!

Aper­ture, a rel­a­tive new appli­ca­tion was added recently to the pro line-​up. I have already devel­oped a love-​hate rela­tion­ship with this new Apple pro appli­ca­tion! I should con­cider it just a 1.0 release and hope that this poten­tially great appli­ca­tion will evolve grad­u­ally in time. Hope­fully Apple will sup­port my Canon EOS 350D soon! In the mean time I’ll have to do with the Raw.plist hack or just shoot in JPEG.

I have added an 5G iPod (Video), to our iPod line-​up. I was a little skep­ti­cal at first, but after having played with it at an Apple Centre I was con­vinced. The video/audio qual­ity of this device is really amazing!

Okay I had to buy a new camera, a new SLR (Single Lens Reflex) dig­i­tal. I had a ‘happy snapper’ but i missed my good old Canon EOS 500. So after a little research between Nikon D70 and the Canon EOS 350D, I decided to go for the Silver Canon EOS 350D with USM (Ultra­sone Motor) lens. In the the future i’ll buy a IS (Image Sta­biliser) USM lens. O, boy what a camera! Soon I will post some pic­tures made with it…

harman/kardon today intro­duced The Bridge, a unique iPod acces­sory that con­nects a com­pat­i­ble iPod to a range of spe­cial harman/kardon The Bridge-​ready AVR 40 Series audio/video receivers, The Bride, which does not require a power adapter, pro­vides a direct audio and con­trol link between the iPod and the receiver. “Elegantly designed to match harman/kardon prod­ucts, The Bridge enables a host of advanced iPod capa­bil­i­ties, such as dis­play­ing on-​screen menus, on front panel dis­play of AVR 40 Series, on TV or video dis­play, pro­vid­ing oper­a­tion of the iPod via the receiver’s remote con­trol and charg­ing of the iPod.” harman/kardon’s The Bridge will be avail­able in Octo­ber 2005 for €100.