November 2, 2010

Turns out having a tripod mount and stand combo is what many iPhone 4 owners have been yearning for -- a Kickstarter funding project for a new mount raised more than ten times what the creators planned to raise. Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost originally intended to raise $10,000 over the course of a month to manufacture the Glif, a new tripod mount and stand for the iPhone 4, but ended up collecting over $135,000 from more than 5,000 backers who want such an accessory. You can find out more on …

If you have a laptop that doesn't have memory card slots built in, then you probably know how annoying it is to have to plug in a card reader every time you transfer photos. The new MR-C25 Series of memory card readers by Elecom tries to solve this problem by making the USB card reader sit flush against the side of your laptop, meaning they can stay attached to your laptop when you stow it away. They also have a 180 degree rotating body that allows you to access other ports that might be …

Here's a pretty interesting 45-minute interview with Pete Souza, which was done via a live web chat at the end of October. Souza is responsible for the behind-the-scenes photographs posted regularly to the official White House Flickr stream. He talks about everything from how photos are selected to crawling around on the floor of the Oval Office to get the perfect shot.

We're giving away two (2) copies of Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 by onOne Software, a set of seven photography plugins that normally costs $500. The seven plugins work for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture, and five of them also work as standalone applications. To see the list of plugins included in the suite, visit this page.