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Lightroom 5 more elegantly disconnects

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Lightroom 5 more elegantly disconnects


Lightroom 5 more elegantly disconnects

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 02:39 PM PDT

Long overdue, Lightroom 5 adds an automatic distortion and perspective correction tool.

(Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET)

Adobe's latest iteration of its raw-editing and management software, Adobe Lightroom 5, enters a public beta today with a modest set of enhancements that will make some photographers very happy but a large number of others shrug and choose to skip it. The biggest news: support for proxy editing of disconnected images, a feature dubbed Smart Preview. Other highlights include an overdue distortion and perspective correction tool, Upright; reusable custom page layouts and page-numbering tweaks in the Book module; a radial filter; the expansion of the spot healing/clone tool into a full-blown healing brush; and the ability to insert playable videos into slideshows. Plus, there are the usual myriad small updates.

What's not here: still no face recognition or tagging, HDR editing, panorama stitching, or expansion of the video capabilities. And as far as I can tell, performance hasn't improved; in fact, it seems a little slower on my system, though that may be beta overhead that will be tuned out before it becomes final. It took about four and a half minutes to import in place 11850 files (on a 2.2GHz Core i7 system with 8GB RAM equipped with a 2GB nVidia Quadro 2000M and running 64-bit W... [Read more]

    


Hack your Android like a pro: Rooting and ROMs explained

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 11:12 AM PDT

Rooting an Android phone opens the door to new possibilities.

(Credit: Scott Webster/CNET)

For all of the flexibility and customization that comes with an Android device, there are still plenty of restrictions in place. While Android technically is an open-source platform, the final product is still the result of a phone maker's skin, the carrier or manufacturer's preloaded software, or even sometimes, a few disabled features.

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There isn't anything wrong with most out-of-the-box experiences, but more daring and tech-savvy users who tire of being at the mercy and discretion of carriers and handset makers might be interested in pushing their Android devices to new limits. This where the practice known as rooting comes into play.

Around since the early days of the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), rooting can ... [Read more]

    


Ignore your dull family, says new Facebook Home ad

Posted: 15 Apr 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Oh, Mom.

(Credit: Facebook/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

You know those self-centered, self-regarding people who just have to look at their cell phones during dinner?

Facebook loves them. Facebook admires them. Facebook wants to promote them.

This thrust toward spiritual progress is the company's latest ad for Facebook Home, its attempt to turn your Android into something from Redmond.

In one recent ad, we saw Mark Zuckerberg's loyal troops ignore his dull corporate ra-ra in favor of a screeching goat.

Now, we can see a young woman ignoring her family.

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Kensington brings USB docking stations to OS X

Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:18 AM PDT

Kensington has just announced driver software for OS X that allows Mac owners with USB 3.0-capable systems to make use of its latest docking stations.

USB 3.0 is the latest iteration of the USB protocol, which at 5Gbps throughput offers a substantial speed boost over USB 2.0, and gives it more options to host high-bandwidth devices, including video adapters for external displays. While video, networking, and audio over USB is nothing new, the greater bandwidth of USB 3.0 allows for more of these options to be lumped together into rather versatile docks such as Kensington's SD3500V docking station.

Kensington's USB 3.0 docks and video adapters will now work on OS X systems.

(Credit: Kensington)

Apple began including USB 3.0 in its 2012 iMac and MacBook systems, so people who have these systems may be able ... [Read more]

    

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