iOS 5 brought with it a change in how users can zoom when taking a picture within the Camera app. In iOS 4, zooming was accomplished by double tapping the screen and bringing up the zoom bar, but iOS 5 instead implemented pinch to zoom. Some users have been unhappy with this change, and if that’s the case with you, you can bring back the older method of zooming (as long as your iDevice is jailbroken) with developer Itay’s ZoomIsBack! tweak in Cydia.

Using your iSight web camera is a great way to record video into iMovie. You may not remember this, but there were two different types of iSight web cameras: internal and the discontinued external. The internal cameras are built into most Macbooks, iMacs and Cinema Displays. The external models can still be found at pretty hefty prices, but can then be added to the older machines or to machines without the camera built in.

Just as August draws to a close, Apple has made official their much rumored September 9th music themed event. As they have done in past years, Apple has released the image above announcing the event in the style of their ubiquitous iPod and iTunes advertisements. “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it” reads the image, quoting the Rolling Stones’ song.

By analyzing the metadata in uploaded pictures, Flickr is able to see which cameras their users are taking pictures with. When it comes to the camera phone market, the iPhone now tops that list. What does this mean? Is the iPhone that popular or does its software just make it easier to get the pictures more »

Computers. Displays. Cell phones. Music players. Online music. Storage. Networking. Apple is already in a ton of markets, many of which, unfortunately, are tightly tied together. However, Apple is still a relatively young company and can branch out so much more. The questions is, if at all, where? Will they enter the digital camera market? The gaming market? The GPS and auto market? Or maybe even video cameras? It could be any of the above, especially given the fact that Apple has applied for so many patents lately. It will be interesting to find out, but heres my thoughts:

For all of those who truly believe that Aperture is sub-par (such as myself), the amazing alternative, Adobe Lightroom, has been updated to version 1.4. You may be asking yourself, “what magical powers does this delicious upgrade bring?”. And my answer to you is “printer driver bug fixes”. Exciting, huh? If you’re printer has been more »