September 04, 2002
Pocket PC SD camera

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This is a neat gadget - the SDCam is a camera for Pocket PCs with SD I/O ports. The camera is korean, and the pages are all in Korean, so if someone has a translation of the information posted on the page, I would be very happy to get it :-)

The basic info about the camera is:

It has a CMOS image capture chip (which should make it cheap to produce), and it can take pictures in 800x600, 640x480 and many other lower res modes. It has 2x and 4x digital zoom, video capture with audio, timer and many other neat features. Its on my christmas list already :-) hehe. Available for PocketPC 2000/2002

[Via Pocket PC Thoughts]

[UPDATE]
Thanks to Ronald, I found this very interesting SD Camera at Expansys, with support both for Palm and Pocket PC:
Spectec SD Camera for PPC and Palm. Looks like a must have -- putting it on the top of my birthday/santa list ;-) -- Only problem is that its not shipping. I found a posting on one of the Palm sites from August 2002 stating that it would soon ship.

Could someone please let me know how fast/slow soon is?

Posted by jarle at 10:15 PM | Comments (20)
Chris is halfway to DevCon

Its looking good, Chris MacGregor was having problems finding the money to attend the Macromedia DevCon conference to be held in Florida in October, but now he has already collected half of the $1250 he needs to be able to attend the conference. I would have liked to see Macromedia spend some more money on the speakers and cover the costs for them, but failing that its good to see that the commnity is getting together and helping one of its hard working members.

Even more gratifying is it to see one of the major Flash book publishers, our english friends from Friends of Ed helping out. They have given Chris $300 for him to be able to speak at the DevCon conference. Great to see someone showing more generosity than Macromedia has shown in this case.

But remember, Chris isn't there yet. Lets help him get to DevCon! Its about $600 to go, lets see some other Flash related companies show their gratitued for the great work Chris has done for the community!

Posted by jarle at 10:14 AM | Comments (2)
Private and public

Photography is one of my favorite hobbies, and besides from finding my inspiration out in the nature, I sometimes find sites with great photography on the net. Private and Public is one such site, made by a fellow scandinavian, the danish Simon Høgsberg. All of the photographs in his "Private and public" project was taken of unsuspecting londoners.

To quote Simon:

All images are taken over a period of a year - from early summer 2001 to late Spring, 2002 - and apart from the portraits taken during the summer period, all pictures are taken from the same spot - 3 meters from the corner of Edgware Road and Oxford Street. None of the photographs have been set up but are all snapshots of pedestrians who happened to walk into the frame of the camera.

[Via Flazoom via Valyard (Welcome back Valyard!)]

Posted by jarle at 09:57 AM