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Q: What is image stabilisation? A: Image stabilisation is a feature found in digital cameras that identifies the optimum moment required to allow light to enter the camera. Light enters the camera when the shutter is opened and if this occurs when th...
May 02, 2012
Technology

"Creative talents"

Many of you may have noticed your Facebook friends posting unique, filtered images with an Instagram tag below them. Instagram is one of the hot new apps that allows you to modify digital pictures on your Android or iPhone and share them through soci...
May 02, 2012

"The ‘Dock’ is wedded to the ‘Yard’"

“The whole town of Hamilton had come out to stare at the strange monster — the most wonderful craft that ever made voyage since Noah’s Ark went cruising.” — A British officer on the arrival of HM Floating Dock Bermuda on July 29, 1869. It is a curio...
Apr 28, 2012
Technology

"TECH TIP OF THE WEEK"

Q: What is image stabilisation? A: Image stabilisation is a feature found in digital cameras that identifies the optimum moment required to allow light to enter the camera. Light enters the camera when the shutter is opened and if this occurs when th...
Apr 25, 2012
Technology

"Now featuring…"

Even though most point-and-shoot cameras come loaded with a bevy of additional features, many users are satisfied with images taken using the basic features of their digital point-and-shoot camera. Sadly, I must admit I am also one of those users, ho...
Apr 25, 2012
Technology

"Will Apple go against Jobs and make a mini iPad?"

Apple generates more gossip than the Kardashians. There's a constantly spinning mill of rumours about Apple products, most of which turn out to be untrue. What's unusual this week is that talk has revived of a smaller iPad model, an idea company foun...
Apr 25, 2012

"The Pearl sails into oblivion"

“I once hear a sermon given by Dr. Patton who said “a man does to his destiny as straight as a shot from a gun”...Yet sometimes a warning voice if listened to may deliver one from the jaws of death.” Dr William Henry Watlington, ‘A Bermuda boy recall...
Apr 21, 2012
Other

"The race is on to replicate the Undine"

All that’s left of Undine — the Island’s fastest known racing sloop from the 1800s — is sitting in 50 or so pieces at the Bermuda National Museum in Dockyard. But Barry Brewer, a boat lover and enthusiast, is on a mission to replicate the historic v...
Apr 19, 2012
Opinion Writer

"To understand Bermuda, you must know its history"

Last weekend the Titanic memorial cruise ship MS Balmoral floated above the wreckage of the Titanic precisely 100 years after this magnificent vessel sank, killing 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters ever. Examination of...
Apr 19, 2012
Technology

"The creeping growth of machine intelligence"

An invisible revolution is occurring. While at the grocery store recently, I paid with a debit card. Being too lazy to use the pen, I pressed the on-screen ‘OK’ button on the device with my finger. The machine haughtily told me to please use the pen ...
Apr 18, 2012
Technology

"iPad users spend $70,000 a day at the Newsstand"

It’s been said iPads are the future of newspapers and magazines, but just how much are people spending on digital editions? A new study finds iPad users spend more than $70,000 every day on the top 100 newspaper and magazine apps in Apple’s Newsstand...
Apr 18, 2012
Technology

"Say cheese"

Now that you’ve had a chance to review the offerings of a digital point-and-shoot, it’s only fair that we expose you to the other alternative, the DSLR. So what’s the difference between a point-and-shoot and a DSLR? There are lots of differences and...
Apr 18, 2012
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