01 Snow White and the Huntsman
02 MIB 3
03 Marvel’s The Avengers
04 Battleship
05 The Dictator
06 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
07 What To Expect When You’re Expecting
08 Dark Shadows
09 Chernobyl Diaries
10 For Greater Glory
Category Archives: Arts and Culture
Fujitsu, Dell ‘Ivy Bridge’ ultrabooks point to hybrid HDDs
Hybrid storage systems will become common on Ivy Bridge-based ultrabooks.
With Fujitsu today announcing new ultrabooks based on Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processor in Japan and Dell’s XPS 14 Ivy Bridge ultrabook imminent in the U.S., it is becoming apparent that spinning hard drives are back in vogue for these slim laptops.
The 0.6-inch thick, 3-pound Fujitsu UH75/H ultrabook comes with a Core i5-3317U (1.7GHz) chip, a 14-inch display with resolutions up to 1920×1080, and a 500GB hard disk drive with a solid-state drive cache for the base model.
That last storage specification matches a similarly-configured Dell XPS 14 ultrabook model that is expected to be announced imminently. And already-announced HP Envy laptops.
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London Comic Con – MCM Expo
Best Selling Books – Week of May 24, 2012
Source: USA Today
1. Fifty Shades of Grey – by E L James
2. Fifty Shades Darker – by E L James
3. Fifty Shades Freed – by E L James
4. Mockingjay – by Suzanne Collins
5. Catching Fire – by Suzanne Collins
6. The Hunger Games – by Suzanne Collins
7. Stolen Prey – by John Sandford
8. 11th Hour – by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
9. The Lucky One – by Nicholas Sparks
10.The Last Boyfriend – by Nora Roberts
Google Self-Driving Car License Approved in Nevada
By Joanna Stern
Nevada is putting the pedal to the metal on those autonomous automobiles.
It was just two months ago that the state approved and set regulations that would allow self-driving vehicles on the state’s roadways. And today it announced that it has approved Google for the first testing license under the new rules.
Google, which was instrumental in pushing through the original legislation in Nevada, has been testing its very own self-driving automobile for a number of years on its campuses and other secret locations. (“Good Morning America” even took it for a spin in 2010.)
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Learning the art of light with Joe McNally
Joe McNally is a renowned American photographer who has worked for publications like National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Time.
McNally is in Australia to hold a series of workshops, keynote presentations and seminars across the country, over the coming month.
The one-day workshop, which is also being held in Melbourne and on the Gold Coast, covers the fundamentals of working with light in order to best capture a series of subjects, with McNally providing personal one-on-one tuition throughout the event, as well as group guidance. There’s plenty of advanced lighting equipment to use on the day, including camera flashes, Nikon SLRs such as the D800 and D4, reflectors and professional studio lights.
His approach to lighting is particularly organic, and McNally is a big advocate of “thinking inside the box” — that is, working with what you have. You don’t need to have experience working with flashes to take part in the workshop; just a love for photography and to know your way around your camera in manual exposure mode.
To find out about locations and events, visit the Through the Lens website.
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Amazon says Kindle owners can lend Harry Potter e-books
By Alistair Barr | Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday owners of its Kindle e-readers and tablets will be able to lend Harry Potter e-books to each other in a move aimed at encouraging more people to use the devices and sign up for its Prime service.
Amazon, the world’s largest Internet retailer, bought an exclusive license from author J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore e-book business to make all seven Harry Potter e-book available to lend through the Kindle platform.
Lending begins June 19 and includes Potter e-books in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
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Box Office Shocker: ‘Avengers’ Opens to Record Shattering $200.3 Million
by Pamela McClintock
The Disney and Marvel Studios tentpole makes history in nabbing the biggest opening of all time in North America; globally “Avengers” has earned a massive $641.8 million in 12 days.
Joss Whedon’s The Avengers has set a new bar in opening to a walloping $200.3 million at the domestic box office, the largest debut ever and kicking of summer 2012 in high style.
The Avengers — marking a major victory for Disney and Marvel Studios — easily dethroned Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which opened to $169.2 million last summer, then the largest number in history.
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Vogue’s Underage Models: No to Under 16s & Eating Disorders , Says New Policy
The editors of all 19 editions of Vogue around the world have pledged to use only healthy models no younger than 16 on their editorial pages in an attempt to shift the fashion industry’s approach to body image.
Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue’s flagship US edition, and Emmanuelle Alt of Paris Vogue – which caused an uproar in 2010 with a photo spread featuring a 10-year-old girl – are among those who agreed to the pact.
“Vogue believes that good health is beautiful,” said Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International and a scion of the New York publishing family that privately owns the world’s most influential fashion title.
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Triggertrap Mobile iOS app turns iPhone into DSLR trigger
by Chris Smith
Triggertrap Mobile iOS app
A new app for iOS devices allows you to automatically trigger your DSLR camera through a means of innovative shooting modes.
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