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Chronos is finally going to be making its way into the hands of some very eager low-budget filmmakers. Back in September , engineer  David Kronstein  unveiled his low-budget high-speed camera, Chronos 1.4, which boasted features like 1050fps at 1280x1024, touchscreen display, and most importantly, a $2750 price tag. At the time, the production-ready prototype wasn't fully completed, the software was still in development, and the hardware was in the prototype phase, but now Chronos 1.4 is fully operational and  ready to go on Kickstarter , having already raised $250,000 from its $48,000 goal. In addition to the price, Chronos 1.4 has some impressive features. It can shoot at up to 21,649fps, though it does so in a non standard resolution, 640x96, which will be more useful to scientists than filmmakers. The more cinematography friendly resolution of 640x480 shoots up to 4,436, which is still mighty impressive. Conveniently, it can als...

The pound hasn't been this strong against the euro since 2008. Is this as good as it gets? We ask leading thinkers in the world of finance Skiers and owners of holiday homes in Europe want to know what the future holds for the euro exchange rate   By  Richard Evans 05 Dec 2015 As thoughts turn to skiing trips or visits to holiday homes in Europe or further afield, it’s time to ask whether now is the best time to buy foreign currency. In recent years the foreign exchange markets have been very volatile, with the pound appreciating dramatically against the euro but losing some of its value against the dollar. These moves are being driven by strong forces at work in the global economy. The key global trading blocs are all at different stages of their recovery from the financial crisis. As a result, they have different plans for interest rates, and other tools of economic control such as “quantitative easing”, also known as QE or s...

03/16/2015 Christopher Soghoian There seems to be a new data breach in the news every week — a major company hacked, millions of usernames, passwords or credit card numbers stolen. There isn’t much that you, as an individual, can do to stop hackers from stealing the data you entrust to companies. However, there are some easy things you can do to significantly reduce the harm from such breaches. Outsource your passwords to a robot The human brain can only remember so many passwords, not to mention we’re actually really bad at picking good ones. So, too often we just reuse passwords across multiple sites. This is a Very Bad Idea. Once hackers break into a website and steal a database of email addresses and passwords, they can then try to use those same passwords to login to other sites. This is a huge problem, because so many of us use the same password for our Facebook, Google, Twitter and online banking accounts. The solution instead is to use a password ...

By  Jason D. Little  on  5 Feb 2014  in  Web [  2 Comments  ] Efficiency, productivity, and convenience are concepts of great importance to photographers, particularly as they relate to a photographer’s overall workflow. It’s not just your image organizing/editing applications to which the idea of a sterling workflow applies, however; for many photographers, their Web browser plays a vital role in their daily operation.  If you’re a Google Chrome user, here are 12 must-have plugins (apps, extensions) will make you wonder how you ever lived without them. PicMonkey PicMonkey makes it easy to grab and edit screenshots and Web images. With one click, PicMonkey will collect all the images on a page, then produce a screenshot of the entire page, sending them all to a neatly placed sidebar where you can perform a variety of edits on each image.  PicMonkey is a Free extension. Image Size Info Image Size Info allow...

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