Sony, Olympus SLRs await Adobe camera profiles

I'm a big fan of Adobe Systems' camera profiles, which when editing the RAW images that higher-end cameras can produce imbues photos with what I find to be more natural hues. So I was glad to hear camera profiles are moving out of Adobe Labs and into Photoshop and Lightroom.

I apply the "camera faithful" profile by default when I import photos from my Canon SLR into Lightroom. But when I tried to use the profiles on some photos I took with an Olympus E-3, I found I couldn't.

Now seemed a good time to find out exactly which models are supported, and Adobe obliged with a list.

All SLRs from Canon and Nikon, which dominate the SLR market, are supported in the profiles that ship with Adobe Camera Raw 5.2, and that's a good start. But things get thinner after that.
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Report: 10-inch Acer Aspire One on the way

Acer is readying a 10-inch version of its Aspire One Netbook, according to a report in DigiTimes. The publication attributed the news to Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan, and said to expect an official launch of the new Netbook in February or March of 2009.

Lin offered no further details about the 10-inch Aspire One, including whether (or when) it will make its way to the US. We assume it will, and that when it does it'll have largely the same specs as the current model, adding perhaps some more RAM and (we hope) a larger battery. No matter what, a 10-inch screen will provide a welcome break from all that scrolling.

Of course, this puts a kink in the plans of anyone who'd hoped to buy an Aspire One this holiday season. If you've been planning to buy an Acer Netbook, will you now hold out in hopes of a larger model, or proceed with your purchase as planned?

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Give a smiley face to the emo keyboard

From the "how is it that this is coming out of Italy and not Japan" part of the Web comes the Emoticon Keyboard, or as it's formally known, "Bajca: The Emotional Communication."

This is basically a keyboard that plugs into your USB slot and can be used to type emoticons. I mean why waste time typing out carats, colons, dashes, and parentheses when one button from the emo keyboard can do it all for you?

Also, depending on how sturdy these things are, you could even smash your emotions out if said emotions call for it.

Also, in a crazy, quirky, multipurpose turn of events, each emoticon ball can be removed from the keyboard and used as jewelry.
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Xperia gets more panels

Sony Ericsson has announced new panels for its Xperia X1 Windows Mobile phone, and this time, they are from Facebook and Windows Live.

In a nutshell, the panel interface in the X1 allows the user to choose from a number of Home screens to replace the original. It's a feature Sony Ericsson has used quite a bit to market its X1 as being different from other Windows Mobile PDA-phones. Currently, most of the panels are provided by Sony Ericsson with only a handful of third-party ones.

We downloaded the panels for a test run
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Motorola Hint QA30 debuts, no plans for APAC

From the US phone-maker which brought us the AURA, ROKR, MING, ZINE, RAZR, KRZR and SLVR comes the latest Hint. A little less inspiring than its name is the slide-out QWERTY form factor which doesn't seem too comfortable to hold due to its blocky footprint. Aside from that, the CDMA phone packs Bluetooth stereo, a 2.5-inch QVGA LCD, 2-megapixel camera, 3.5mm audio jack, dedicated music keys on the top panel and support for microSD cards of up to 8GB. Moto says there are no plans to bring the Hint to Asia Pacific yet, though the handset will be available in the US this quarter.

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