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Review – The RICOH Portable Monitor 150BW

Today’s laptops typically have wide-gamut displays with wonderfully high resolution, but sometimes a larger or extended display is in order. The recently released RICOH Portable Monitor 150BW external display is a solid example of how easy it is to expand your screen footprint while still enjoying impressive quality. Read on for our full review!

Harris Fogel and Nancy Burlan, posted 7/30/2024

Holiday Gift Guide 2023 – Photo Books

There was a day when if you came across a dozen new photo books a year, and you had the bases covered. Now, it seems that dozens of good photo books are published every day, so it’s hard to keep up. We reviewed a number of wonderful books this year, and narrowed it down to four that stood out. Louisiana Lens – Photographs from the Historic New Orleans Collection – John H. Lawrence. Countdown – Jeanine Michna-Bales and Adam Reynolds – A Visual Exploration of the Cold War’s Opposing Nuclear Architecture. Jamey Stilling – ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile, and on a more practical level, Declutter Your Photo Life – Adam Pratt. Read our reviews to discover why these should on a shelf in your home soon.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/6/2023

Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Digital Imaging

Santa’s Digital Imaging Elves were busy in 2023, and brought a slew of actual improvements that will bring wholesale change to photographers everyday workflow. Adobe’s introduction and refinement of the RAW workflow with A.I. Denoise and Masking isn’t a minor revision. Sonnet Tech’s new Echo 20 Thunderbolt 4 Superdock has a slick, svelte design with cutting edge performance, and for great SD Card performance, the Kingston Canvas React Plus SD Card, and OWC Atlas with their Innergize App, help make sure your shoots go off as planned. The Xencelabs Medium Bundle Tablet sets a new standard for image editing. Read our full reports.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/06/2023

Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Lifestyle and More

We are fans of cool, useful gifts, and a few come to mind. Here are some favorites!

The Oral-B iO Sense Series 10 in Cosmic Black Electric Toothbrush is their latest approach to dental hygiene, the Dreamroo - Over the Sink Colander is a very cool addition to your kitchen. Love your hearing, check out the EarasersHearing Protectors, and the Sennheiser SoundProTex Hearing Protectors. Tired of cords getting loose, consider the CordBrick, or folks swiping your chargers, the Lock Socket to the rescue. Reliefband makes two wristwatch sized devices that can prevent nausea. The new NEX Playground is an AI game console with uses a camera to recognize motion. Very cool for all ages! Read our full reviews for more!

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/06/2023

Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Music – Streaming

We don’t need to sneak LPs into our homes. Well, unless you don’t want to advertise spending $130 plus for an artisanal hand-pressed one-step LP of music you’ve owned for thirty years and know from heart. So, you still might be sneaking that into your house from a disapproving partner. But the point is, with streaming we don’t even need physical media. Although I still have a soft spot for tangible media, from LPs to Blu-ray, the bulk of our current listening is via streaming. Read on for our notes on different services.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/05/2022

Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Audio

We love audio gifts for the holidays, especially products that combine cutting edge technology, rich feature sets, and affordable pricing. The Rogersound Labs RSL ia255.1 is a great, entry level Class D amplifier, with solid features. The SVS 3000 Micro is an amazing, small footprint subwoofer, whose small size belies its powerful output. The iFi Neo Stream, is an amazing product, with extraordinary audiophile chops at a reasonable price. The Vera-Fi Audio Vera-Link AMP is a small, powerful, Class D amplifier that turns every speaker into an almost instantly ready-to-go Bluetooth speaker. All are some superb products for a great holiday season! Read on for our reviews!

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, Posted 12/05/2023

Holiday Gift Guides 2023 – Personal Audio

As our readers know, we are huge fans of headphones and earphones. The Audeze MM-500 and Audeze MM-100 Planar Magnetic Headphones are high on Santa’s list, and the Audeze Maxwell Wireless Gaming Headset is the best sounding gaming headphone we have ever heard. Want a great sounding sounding, incredibly comfortable headphone at a bargain price, check out the Dekoni x Hifiman Cobalt Closed Back Dynamic Headphones. Need a handy pair of inexpensive Bluetooth headphones, check out the iLive Active Noise Cancellation Bluetooth Headphones. One of the most interesting sport headphones we’ve tested are the Cleer ARC II Sport Smart Open Ear True Wireless Headphone, which allows you to hear the outside world, yet music and voice come through clearly. A new name in audio, Status, just released a nifty new model, the Between 3 ANC Triple Driver Active Noise Cancelling Wireless Earbuds. Read on for our full reviews!

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/05/2023

Holiday Gift Guides – Music – High Resolution

2023 has been a bumper year for extraordinary musical releases, more than we could hope to cover in detail, so forgive us if we’ve left out your favorites. Here a few notable vendors. TRPTK, Native DSD, The Audiophile Society, 2L The Nordic Sound, and The Jazz Detective are all supplying superlative content, with various resolutions. Want to party a bit, check out The Rolling Stones – Grrr Live! on Bluray. A massive remixing and remastering of The Beatles - 1962–1967 (Red Album), and The Beatles - 1967–1970 (Blue Album) is probably the most important release of the year.

Harris Fogel, Nancy Burlan, and Frank Schramm, posted 12/05/2023.

The History of Iris Printing with Jack Duganne, Who Coined the Word “Giclée” – NAPP Photoshop World Las Vegas

An interview with master digital printer Jack Duganne, who began printing for Graham Nash, and who coined the term “Giclée,” and later founded Duganne Atellier. If you ever wondered where fine-art digital printmaking began, then listen to this interview. Recorded at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Photoshop World Conference, Las Vegas, in September 2006 by Harris Fogel. (28:01)

Harris Fogel, Posted 11/5/2006; Reposted and updated 8/12/2023

Review - Cat Amazing puzzle toys – Montessori for Kitties?

As the days get longer, a lot of energy goes into planning all sorts of parties, activities and celebrations for friends and family - everyone wants to get in on the fun! But while you are firing up the grill and setting up the badminton net, don’t forget to plan some fun for the cats in your life! We’ve found our cats don’t really care who is graduating, or if there’s a game of Marco Polo going on in the pool. But they were amused and delighted when we presented them with a set of interactive kitty puzzles and games from Cat Amazing.

Nancy Burlan, Harris Fogel, Thomas Fogel, Sandy, Grayson, Theo, & Zeke, Posted 6/5/2023

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