Monthly Archives: August 2015

VR’s Great Secret: It’s Actually Cool

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People have been having a good time with Time’s bizarre VR cover, featuring a big image of Oculus Rift’s Palmer Luckey looking like an absolute idiot. It’s insulting, people say, it misses the point, it treats the tech industry like the fraternity from Revenge of the Nerds, etc. But it’s also fueled a backlash-backlash, with people across social media reminding us that Virtual Reality is somehow inescapably lame, and that the cool masses will reject it outright. This Eurogamer article is probably longest treatise I’ve read on it yet, claiming “Time has inadvertently nailed the big problem with Virtual Reality: it’ll never be cool.” It reads a little bit like the Time article’s absurd, constant usage of the word “nerd,” as if the presence of VR has somehow transported us all back to the mid-80s. That’s nonsense. VR already is cool, and it’s only going to get cooler. Time magazine is sort of lame, but that’s neither here nor there.

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Google Maps for iOS adds night mode for navigation

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Following its latest update, which is already available in the iTunes App Store, Google Maps for iOS now comes with a night mode for the navigation screen.

It’s incredibly surprising that this feature has so far been missing from the app’s iOS version, especially since the exact same functionality has been available in Google Maps for Android for a very long time.

Regardless, it’s now in there, so your iPhone won’t blind you anymore while you’re using Google Maps to navigate at night. Google Maps 4.9 for iOS also comes with the ability for you to label places so you can see them on your map and in search suggestions, and edit the photo captions you’ve posted. Additionally, the usual unnamed bug fixes are supposedly in too.

So you might not consider this a big update, were it not for that glaring omission of the night mode, which is now finally…

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Xiaomi Redmi 2 Prime may launch in India with more RAM, storage

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Next week, on August 13, Xiaomi will officially unveil MIUI 7, the latest version of its Android-based mobile operating system. We’ve already heard that the Redmi Note 2 might finally debut at the same event, and now we can apparently add another device to the list.

It looks like the Redmi 2 Prime will be launched in India soon. That’s because it was listed by Amazon India for a while, and through that listing we have information about its specs.

The Redmi 2 Prime is essentially going to be nothing but the slightly beefed up version of the original Redmi 2 which got official at the beginning of this year. This variation is already up for grabs in China with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage, and for some reason Xiaomi will offer it as a newly named phone in India.

The rest of the specs are shared with the entry-level model, so you’re still going to get MIUI 6 based on Android 4.4 KitKat, a 4.7-inch 720p touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP selfie snapper, and a 2,200 mAh battery. At the helm will be the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC with a 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53…

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El transportador personal WalkCar mola más que el segway (y lo sabes)

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Un nuevo gadget están empezando a sonar con fuerza en tierras niponas y amenaza con arrebatarle el puesto al simpático segway. Nos referimos al WalkCar, un transportador personal desarrollado por la firma Cocoa Motors que, lejos de resultar tan volum…

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Darktable 1.6.8, nueva versión de este editor de imágenes RAW con aires de Lightroom

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Hace poco hablamos de Fotoxx, una excelente herramienta de edición de imágenes, y ya en ese post mencionamos que si algo abunda en Linux son las aplicaciones de este tipo puesto que las hay para todos los gustos. Y como para reforzar esto hoy vamos a hablar de Darktable, que hace muy poco lanzó la versión 1.6.8 y sigue añadiendo mejoras para la edición de imágenes RAW, un nicho muy utilizado entre quienes se dedican a la fotografía profesional.

Para quienes no la conozcan, decir que Darktable es una aplicación multiplataforma, con versiones para Linux, Solaris y Mac OS X, y más allá del inocultable parecido a Lightroom entre sus principales características podemos mencionar el hecho de ofrecer todas las que habitualmente pueden llegar a brindar las herramienta de este tipo: rotar, redimensionar, recortar, mejorar contraste, brillo, tono, saturación etc, o la posibilidad de trabajar con perfiles de colores o copiar los que tiene una determinada área de la imagen.

En Darktable 1.6.8 llegó el soporte para imágenes RAW en una amplia gama de modelos de cámaras, por ejemplo Canon EOS M3, Canon EOS 5Ds R, Fujifilm X-T10, Nikon 1 J5, Panasonic DMC-G7, Panasonic DMC-G7, Panasonic TZ71 y Leica VLUX1 entre tantas otras. También llegó el soporte para el chequeo de integridad, para el manejo de casos especiales en el reconocimiento de lentes en cámaras de Canon y para el uso de presets en las cámaras Samsung NX500 y Panasonic TZ71.

Darktable 1.6.8 ya puede ser descargado desde el espacio que el proyecto tiene en Github (donde tenemos el código fuente) y este es el sha256:

b676f81bd8cc661a8f76e03ad449da4444f770b6bec3e9accf013c636f690905

Descarga Darktable 1.6.8 (Github)

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