眾籌網站Indiegogo上最猛的項目誕生了，而且可能開創一種全新的手機產銷模式。 這一項目來自Canonical，他們打算推出一款Ubuntu流動操作系統的智能手機Edge，但是苦於資金短缺，於是便在indiegogo上發起了籌款活動。 Canonical的籌款數額可謂驚人，高達3200萬美元，遠高於Indiegogo、Kickstarter的歷史記錄，相... 
If you love taking and manipulating photos with your iDevices, you'll be happy to know that AfterLight has finally made it to the iPad. Long one of the top 10 paid apps on the App Store for the iPhone, the lightweight app allows you to create more appealing images than what you find with similar filter-based apps like Instagram. In addition, it features numerous sliders to help you create the perfect photo.
If AfterLight doesn't ring a bell, you might recall that the app was originally called AfterGlow when it first appeared on the App Store in November of last year, after which some legal complications prompted the change to the current name.
So far, there doesn't appear to be anything significant that sets the iPad app apart from its iPhone/iPod Touch counterpart, but that's a treat in itself that iPad users now have access to the same features they've come to love on the smaller devices. Those features include over a dozen adjustment tools including options for clarity, brightness, contrast, saturation, highlights, exposure, shadows, fade, highlight tones, mid tones, shadow tone, temperature, vignette, grain, and sharpening.
For a mere buck, that's about as competent as what you'd expect from the Adobe Photoshop app, and a good deal more intuitive, too. Toss in 40 filters drawn from both the development team and "guests" in the form of Instagram users, 66 textures, 75 frames, and a multitude of cropping and transformation features, and you'll likely find that you have a keeper app for your iPad.
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LGG2將於8月7日正式與公眾見面。目前LG為G2量身打造的多彩外殼QuickWindow已經亮相。 與普通的手機外殼不同，QuickWindow除了保護手機之外，還能顯示多種信息。用戶無需掀起翻蓋外殼，即可透過長方形開口閱讀手機螢幕上的信息，包括時間、天氣、音樂、來電、短信等。 QuickWindow將隨G2一起推出，有黑色、白色、粉色等多種顏... 
Today's work is to paste protective film on the iPhone's plastic back cover to prevent it from being scratched on assembly lines. This iPhone model with a plastic cover will soon be released on the market by Apple. The task is pretty easy, and I was able to work independently after a five-minute instruction from a veteran employee. It took around a minute to paste protective film on one rear cover. The new cell phone has not yet been put into mass production, so quantity is not as important. This makes our job more slow paced than in departments that have begun mass production schedules.According to recent reports, Apple's low-cost plastic iPhone is expected to be launched sometime in the fall, potentially as early as September.
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More magic from Sigma coming?
The last year or two from Sigma has been a pretty good one. A lot of highly regarded lenses have been released that come in at pretty great prices compared to the competitors.
We're told Sigma is working on a 24-70 f/2 OS HSM for full frame cameras. We're told they want to give a full frame zoom option faster than f/2.8 that rivals the APS-C 18-35 f/1.8 DC HSM. There was no word on what pricing would be, but it would definitely come in under the Canon EF 24-74 f/2.8L II.
We're told this could be a Photokina 2014 lens. Next year is going to be a big one for Canon & Sigma by all indications.
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Apple Senior Vice President Bob Mansfield has been removed from Apple's Leadership website in the past 24 hours with no explanation. Mansfield is currently senior vice president of technologies, a position he took last October, overseeing a group focused on innovation in wireless technology and semiconductors. | |
If you want a rangefinder-style camera with classic styling and relative affordability, Fujifilm's X100, and its successor, the X100S are some of the very few options out there. But the X100 had quirks around autofocus that made a niche camera even more specialized. The X100S zaps some of those issues, resulting in a camera that, while still quirky, is much more lovably so, for amateurs and enthusiasts alike.
The X100S retains almost exactly the same classic styling as its predecessor, which features a leatherette body with metal accents, and it looks excellent. This is a camera that you're actually proud to wear around your neck, even if it does make you look slightly like a tourist, and one that resembles the Leicas that cost oodles more money.
The X100S might be a little bulky for a camera with a fixed lens that isn't a DSLR, but it's actually a good size. It won't quite fit in a pocket as a result, but it gives photographers plenty to hold onto, and offers up lots of space for its ample buttons and physical controls without resulting in a cramped feeling. Plus the thing oozes quality; it's a $1,300 camera, but it feels even more solid and well-designed than its tidy price tag would let on, and it's durable to boot – I've carted it literally around the world with minimal protection and it's as good as new.
Functionally, the control layout is the real star of the X100S. A physical dial for exposure compensation and for shutter speed, as well as an aperture ring on the lens and quick access to ISO settings programmable via the Fn button on the top of the camera make this a manual photographer's dream – and possible an automatic photographer's overburdened mess. But that's part of the quirk, and the real appeal of this unique camera.
The X100S offers a lot in the way of features, including the excellent hybrid viewfinder that can switch instantly between optical and electronic modes thanks to a lever on the front of the camera within easy reach from shooting position. It's the best of old and new, giving you a chance to frame with true fidelity optical quality and also with a preview akin to the one you'd see on the back of the camera via the LCD screen. You can preview exposure that way, and white balance as well as depth of field. The EVF also offers 100 percent coverage of the image, meaning what you see is what you get in the resulting photo.
Manual focusing also gets a big improvement with the X100S, which is great because focus-by-wire is traditionally a big weakness on non DSLR advanced cameras. It uses a new Digital Split Image method that works with phase detection to adjust focus with a high degree of accuracy, and it works remarkably well. To my eye, which is generally very bad at achieving consistently reliable level of focus accuracy on full manual lenses with my DSLR, the split image trick (along with the inclusion of existing focus peaking tech) works amazingly well.
The X100S is a much better camera in all respects than its predecessor, the X100, and that was a very good camera. Its "Intelligent Hybrid Auto Focus" that switches between phase and contract AF automatically to lock as quickly as possible works very well, though it does struggle somewhat in darker settings and at closer ranges still. It's heaps and bounds better than the original, however, and makes this camera a great one for street shooting; a task which, to my mind, it seems almost perfectly designed for.
Combining a camera that looks suitably touristy, with a short, compact lens and a 35mm equivalent focal lens, with great low-light shooting capabilities and fast autofocus makes for a great street camera, so if that's what you're after I can't recommend this enough. It performed less well as an indoor candid shooter, owing to some leftover weakness at achieving focus lock close up, but it's still good at that job too. In general, the X100S is a great camera for shooting human subjects, in my opinion, thanks to its signature visual style that seems to compliment skin especially well.
The X100S is a photographer's everyday camera. It might frustrate newcomers, unless they're patient and willing to learn, but it's a joy to use if you have any kind of familiarity with manual settings, and the fixed focal length is a creative constraint that produces some amazing results. This isn't the camera for everybody, but it's a more broadly appealing shooter than the X100 ever was, and it's also even a steal at $1,300 – if, that is, you have that kind of disposable income to spend on photography tools. Know that if you do spend the cash, this is definitely a camera that will stay in your bag and/or around your neck for a long time to come, and a worthy upgrade for X100 fans, too.
新浪科技訊 香港時間7月28日消息，Opera旗下子公司、全球最大的流動廣告平台Opera Mediaworks週二發佈了《第二季度全球流動廣告狀況》報告，闡述了今年第二季度全球流動商業化和廣告趨勢。 報告顯示，在廣告印象方面，iPhone與Android並駕齊驅。但在營收方面，iPhone是明顯的贏家，占據了36.4%的營收，而Android占2... 
我們獲悉，OPPO正在研發Find 5智能手機升級版，命名為Find 7。儘管名稱已經變成7，但是，Find 7將維持5英寸1080pd屏幕。 Find 7智能手機採用高通Snapdragon 800芯片組，內建四個Krait 400內核，運行主頻為2.3GHz，這款產品將採用Android4.2果凍豆操作系統，並且採用OPPO定制的專門用戶界面。 O... 
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7月11號， Nokia 推出一款4100萬像素的超薄手機，配備1/1.5英吋感光器、6塊蔡司認證鏡片、氙氣閃光燈、第二代OIS光學防抖技術。該機可謂秒殺市面上一切以拍照為痛點的旗艦手機，在AT&T上預定不到一天就售罄，首批訂單將今天（7月23日）發貨。 如此強勢入場的Lumia 1020 是否能夠改變智能機市場格局，是否能夠使 Nokia 重... 
導語：美國科技博客Techcrunch今日發表文章稱， Apple 公司(以下簡稱 Apple )週二發佈的第三財季財報結果顯示，3年前舊產品iPhone 4在第三財季表現不俗，銷量大增。這主要得益於 Apple 的價格優惠措施，因此這一次的iPhone熱賣可以看做是對即將上市的低成本iPhone未來表現的一次預演。 以下為文章內容... 
新浪科技訊 香港時間7月26日凌晨消息， Apple 公司週二公佈了2013財年第三季度的財報。財報顯示， Apple 公司在大中華區銷量出現下滑。 Apple 公司CEO蒂姆‧庫克(Tim Cook)表示，將採取措施努力提升大中華區銷量。 根據第三季度財報數據， Apple 公司在大中華區的營收為46億美元，同比減少14%，環比下滑43%。在上一... 
雖然 Apple 的保密措施業界稱讚，但還是無法抵禦萬能的互聯網，這不，又一塊主板圖片洩露於網上，這已不是第一次了。外觀跟iPhone 5頗為相似，可惜無法看到處理器型號，據稱屬於下一代iPhone，也就是可能於9月份發佈的iPhone 5S了。 iPhone 5S是理所當然是本季度最受期待的智能手機，恐怕沒有之一。官方雖還未公佈具體發佈時... 
導語：美國科技博客Mashable週二發表題為《六年了， Apple 公司如何讓iPhone持續熱銷》(Six years later, how Apple keeps the iPhone chugging along)的評論文章稱，雖然 Apple 公司的其他產品都出現了銷量萎縮，但iPhone卻憑藉對舊機型的積極推廣實現了持續熱銷。但要破解營收高、利潤低的謎題，該公司... 
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Ubuntu Edge是一款手機、PC二合一設備 導語：美國科技網站ZDNet週三發表題為《Ubuntu Edge可能改變計算世界(Ubuntu Edge might just change the computing world)》的評論文章稱，手機PC二合一的超級手機buntu Edge可能會贏得用戶的青睞，成為未來計算設備的新形式。 以下是文章全文： Ubuntu及其母公司Canonic... 
A Harris poll of almost 40,000 American consumers on more than 1,500 brands across 155 categories saw Apple retain Brand of the Year in three categories.
What really stands out is that in all three of the categories Apple brands are measured – Computer, Tablet and Mobile Phone – its Brand Momentum scores are in the top 30 of all 1,500 brands evaluated in the study, showing that consumers see this as a brand of the future.
The poll asks consumers to rate brands on Familiarity, Quality, Purchase Consideration, Emotion, Fit, Trust, Performance, Energy, Ubiquity, Future Outlook, Leadership and Popularity.
The top four brands in each of the three categories were:
Computers:
1 Apple Computers – 2013 Computer Brand of the Year 2 Hewlett-Packard (HP) Computers 3 Dell Computers 4 Sony Computers
Tablets:
1 Apple iPad Series - 2013 Tablet Brand of the Year 2 Kindle Fire Series 3 Google Nexus Series 4 Samsung Galaxy Series
Mobile phones:
1 Apple iPhone – 2013 Mobile Phone Brand of the Year 2 HTC Phone 3 Samsung Phone 4 LG Phone
The ratings may provide some comfort for those who feared Apple's enviable brand popularity would suffer post-Steve.
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