Sam sung NX10

 

The Samsung NX10 is a solid DSLR to hold and shoot with, featuring both a crisp 3-inch LCD screen and an elec­tronic viewfinder for composing images. Unfortunately, the image quality is just average and the video quality lackluster. The menu system is easy to navigate, and you can control most popular set­tings by using buttons on the top and back of the camera. Processing raw files shot on the NX10 is cumbersome, especially for Mac users, The NXlO is best suited for casual photographers looking for lens interchangeability in a smaller package than a typical DSLR

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V

 

With its in-camera GPS, digital compass, wireless image and video sharing via Transfer Jet, accelerometer-driven panorama mode, and 1080i high-definition video capture in AVCHD format, it's easy to overlook the fact that the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V is, in fact, a camera. And it's an excellent camera at that, delivering great image quality. The 10-megapixel DSC­HX5V, with lOX optical zoom, also boasts some innovative and fun-to-use features. It excels when shooting in low light without a flash, creating panoramic images, and correcting backlit images. The DSC-HX5V is a go-to pick for anyone who craves cool-factor extras backed by impressive performance

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Canon EOs Rebel T2i

Canon's Rebel T2i, an upgrade to the T1i, gives you incremental refinements that add up to improved image quality and movie recording, The T2i has been bumped up to 1B megapixels (compared to 15.1 megapixels for the T1i). Video capture is substantially improved and now features your choice of video size, up to lOBOp, The camera has a gorgeous 3-inch LCD screen and both phase-detection and contrast-detection autofocus. The T2i provides excellent image quality in all formats, even in the auto modes .

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Databases Hit the Road with FileMaker Go

 

the iPhone may fit in your pocket, and the iPad may not be much larger than a hard­cover book, but FileMaker thinks it can fit an entire database application on each device. The company has released File Maker Go-a mobile application in iPhone and iPad versions­that gives you access to databases created with the venerable File Maker Pro desktop program. You won't be able to create databases on your iPhone or iPad with File Maker Go. But you will be able to work remotely with FileMaker Pro databases on your mobile device, viewing, searching, and editing information from wherever you are. “The thing that's cool [about File­Maker Go] is not that we've done it, but how we did it," Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services for FileMaker, told Macworld. Although the mobile app can't do everything its desktop counter­part can pull off. Rosenberg says, it's still a pretty full-featured version of FileMaker. To that end, File Maker Go for both the iPhone and the iPad can run most data­bases created in FileMaker Pro 7 or later, with no custornization required. layouts, lists, forms, and tables look the same on a mobile device as they do on a desktop computer. FileMaker Go also supports most scripts used in desktop databases. With FileMaker Go, you can access databases on a Mac or PC over either a local wireless network or a Wi-Fi or 3G connection. (Database hosting requires version 10 or II of either File Maker Server or File Maker Pro.) When you connect to databases via a network connection, changes you make remotely appear in the stored database instantly-and vice versa. In addition, you can use File Sharing in iTunes to copy databases from your desktop onto your mobile device for use with File Maker Go. You can download databases via e-mail as well, using the Document Support feature in iOS 4 (and iPhone OS 3.2 on the iPad) to open Mail attachments directly in FileMaker Go

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