750GB Seagate Hard DriveSeagate Press Release

First-ever 750GB External Hard Drive can Store it all – Your Entire Digital Music, Movie, Photo and Data Libraries in the Same Desk Space as a Stapler

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—27 April 2006— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s number one hard drive maker, today introduced the world’s first three-quarter Terabyte external hard drive – the Seagate 750GB Pushbutton Back-up Hard Drive. As the newest addition to Seagate’s award winning line of consumer products, the stylish 750GB Pushbutton Back-up Hard Drive is designed to offer the most convenient way for consumers to store all of their treasured digital content right on their desktop. For the first time, digital aficionados can easily manage their ever-increasing digital content on one small desktop device that can hold all of the following: 15,000 digital songs, 15,000 digital photos, 50 hours of home videos, 50 computer games, and 25 DVD movies – with 300GB of additional space left over to easily backup their notebook and desktop computers. What previously would have resided on multiple hard drives in a large enclosure on the floor has now been replaced by Seagate with a sleek, stylish desktop design that takes up as little space as a tape dispenser.

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The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has announced TIPA Award-winners 2006. For those who have never heard about the award, TIPA Awards is the European ‘Oscar’ of the Photo and Imaging Industry.

Here are the winners:

- Best Digital SLR – Entry Level: Nikon D50
- Best Digital SLR – Expert: Nikon D200
- Best Digitals SLR – Professional: Canon EOS 5D
- Best Superzoom Digital Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1
- Best Ultra-compact Digital Camera: Canon Powershot SD630/Ixus 65
- Best Compact Digital Camera: Fujifilm Finepix F30
- Best Multimedia Digital Camera: Samsung Digimax i6
- Best Imaging Innovation: Live View system of the Olympus E-330

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Capture rate speeds up with new Capture One 3.7.4 on Intel-based Macs and Windows – Updated RAW workflow software supports all Phase One P Series digital camera backs, the new Canon EOS 30D, Pentax *ist series and Sony DSC-R1

April 11th 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark: Phase One®, the world leader in professional digital imaging solutions, has updated Capture One™ RAW Workflow to support more cameras, more RAW file formats and Intel-based Macs. Capture One is the most efficient, fully color-managed RAW Workflow image-processing solution and delivers the highest possible image quality from the new generation of digital SLRs and Phase One digital camera backs.

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Nikonians photo community has recently announced its 2005 photographer of the year. 1st Place in colour category goes to Wendy Roscoe from Tinkerbell Australia with her inspiring ‘Autumn Leaf’ photograph. While the 1st Place in Black&White category goes to Oliver Kuerten from Inselney – Germany with a flying bird photograph entitled ‘Flying V’.

Winners of 2005 Nikonians Photographers of the Year

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Engadget’s Marc Perton reported that Canon will stop the production of the Canon EOS 20Da later this month. Canon EOS 20Da was first released in June 25 last year specifically addresses the needs of astrophotography

The camera is based on the popular 8.2 megapixel Canon EOS 20D with special features such as a live preview on the LCD monitor and a modified low-pass filter optimised for photographing the night sky in brilliant detail.

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PRESS RELEASE

Great Savings on Select Products Including $300 on EOS 5D Digital SLR and $100 on EOS Digital Rebel XT Digital SLR

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 3, 2006 — This spring, while outdoor activities, sporting events and family gatherings are in full swing, Canon U.S.A., Inc. helps make it easy and affordable to capture and share memories on the field, on the boat, or at the family BBQ. The “Cash In With Canon” Mail-In-Rebate Program will return from April 1 — July 15, 2006 and gives consumers the opportunity to take advantage of big savings on an assortment of select Canon products.

Canon is offering mail-in rebates from $10 to $300 on select products, including $300 on the 12.8 megapixel EOS 5D digital SLR with a full frame CMOS sensor. Canon is also offering a $100 rebate on the #1 best selling DSLR camera*, the EOS Digital Rebel XT Digital SLR and a variety of Canon’s world-renowned EF lenses. Additionally, Canon is offering mail-in rebates on select EX-series flashes such as the powerful Speedlite 580EX flash. Users can also get up to $100 back on select IS (Image Stabilizer) Binoculars such as the rugged 10×42 L IS waterproof binoculars.

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PRESSS RELEASE

Databarracks launch BuddyBackup Free Online Backup for Home Users

10th April 2006 – Databarracks today announced the release of BuddyBackup a completely free online backup service. BuddyBackup is free software, which allows computer users to backup data to friends’, family or colleagues’
computers securely across the internet. BuddyBackup allows computer users to backup files, photos, music or virtually any computer data to be securely and remotely backed up with no charge at all.

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Annual Pictures of the Year International (POYI) has recently announced its Winners of the 63rd competition by the Missouri School of Journalism. There were more than 39,000 images submitted by more than 1718 newspaper and magazine photographers and editors from 400 publications from 45 countries.

You can visit the POYI 63 Winners gallery by clicking on the images above.

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Phixr is new online photo editor where you can quickly edit your digital photos whether you are at home or at some internet cafe far far away in the middle of nowhere.

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Vienna, Austria (PRWEB) April 6, 2006—A small Austrian company today launched http://www.phixr.com, a free Web-based photo editor with a user interface similar to many desktop applications. “The site’s user interface is on the forefront of Web application development,” said Thomas Winischhofer, the founder of Phixr.com. “Its interactivity with the user sets new standards, especially by using interface elements, which were so far only common to ordinary desktop applications.” Winischhofer created Phixr.com to accommodate digital photographers when they don’t have access to their picture editing software.

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Epson have couple of good deals on their 9 products including $50 mail-in rebate for Epson P-4000, and a huge $150 mail-in rebate for Epson Stylus Photo RX620.

Click on the image above to visit their store

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