Weekend picks #018

What is the color of your life?

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Google Earth
Google has added a new feature to Google Earth. If you live in United States you have another layer to add in the 3D view, one that uses data from the weather.com site to present the condition of the weather. Google says that it is as close to real time as it could ever be as it uses Doppler radars to present the clouds. All other users can use Google Earth to access the weather forecast [in 50.000 cities around the world]. Another also new feature in the latest version of Google Earth is that you can also explore the sky and not only the surface of the Earth. You can find it here

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Anonymous?
Browsing the web is not anonymous. You can think that because you use a fake name in a site no one can find you but the truth is that if you have a connected to the Internet computer every web site you visit knows through your IP, your location and your ISP. But with a proxy server or an anonymizer there is an extra layer of security between you and the site you are visiting. The site you are visiting doesn’t know anything about you. All you have to do is ask a proxy server to fetch the data and then send them to you. If the intermediate proxy server is secured you don’t have to worry about anything. The only disadvantage is that because the data travel a longer distance browsing the net through a proxy is usually slower. There are a lot of free web anonymizers in the net but there some like JAP you can install in your own PC which I find easier to use. You can find it here.

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D is for "Dream machine" in DSLR
Olympus invited me among other Greek journalists to Istanbul for the presentation of the new Olympus E-3 DSLR and I had the opportunity to test the camera in real life conditions for a whole day [more than 400 photos :-) ]. First of all I have to say that I was impressed by the city [this was my first time]. I honestly think that after Paris is the most “photo friendly” city in Europe. Everywhere you go from Hagia Sofia to Top Kapi or to the old market there is something to photograph. And then I was impressed by the E-3. You can shoot under any conditions night or day and be sure that your photos are focused, sharp and with the correct colors. It is splash free; one of the demonstrations that we had the opportunity to see was exactly that. A guy purred water from a bottle on the camera, took a towel wiped it and start shooting afterwards. I would like to test the also new A700 of Sony but I am thinking that Olympus has a winner here. You can find the press release here

Until next time keep on photographing and sharing your photos with your friends.