Ivan Makarov Blog

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Category: technology

Amazon Kindle – Dropping the Ball

I finally convinced myself I need an eReader. I read at least one book a month. I think having an eReader in my bag would actually help me read more. I know I don’t need an iPad – it does too much and it is too expensive for how it performs. I don’t like the [...]

Adobe Releases Lightroom 3, Time for an Upgrade!

After few months of Lightroom 3 Beta testing, today Adobe released the official version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. It’s available for trial, purchase or updgrade through Adobe’s web-site. Personally, I have not spent as much time playing with beta version of the software as I could have, because I had no reason to start [...]

Hitech vs Lee Filters

While I am still waiting for my Big Stopper 10-stop ND filter to arrive after I ordered it from 2filter*, I was browsing the internet and came across a great review of the filter at Robert Strachan’s blog. He’s lucky to live in the UK, where Lee, the company that makes Lee filters, is based. I imagine [...]

Saying Good Bye to GoDaddy Hosting

After about a year of using their service, I’m glad to report that I am done using GoDaddy Hosting as the server space provider for my blog. Here is why. I’ve been a GoDaddy customer for close to 10 years now ever since I bought my first domain name through them. I can’t complain about [...]

Canvas on Demand – Gallery Wrap Review

When it comes to making canvas prints out of your photos, there are a lot of choices today of who to go through. It seems that most of the larger photos labs offer that option today. However, from my experience, when it comes to creating quality canvas wraps, it’s best to go with the labs [...]

New Filter from Lee – 10-stop ND – “The BIG Stopper”

I’ve been a big fan of Lee filter products, and they’ve just released a new filter called “The BIG Stopper” that should be a huge success with landscape and architecture photographers, if they find a way to get them to US market quickly. The new filter is called “The Big Stopper”, and promises to reduce [...]

Adobe CS5 is Here

While the official launch event doesn’t start until 8am PT on Monday, Adobe is starting to release new information about the latest update to their family of product. Monday is going to be a big day for them. Among their Creative Suite products, I use primarily Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat Professional in connection with my [...]

Adobe Announces CS5 Launch Date

Just got this in my email – Today, Adobe started letting the world know that CS5 will be launched on April 12th, 2010. We are revealing our launch date to give the creative community time to register for our global online launch event that will take place on Adobe TV on April 12th (8 a.m. [...]

Why You May or May Not Want to Switch to Google Chrome

About a month or so ago Google came out with an updated version of its browser Chrome that now supports extensions, a feature that have kept me on Firefoxfor about five years now, among other things. I decided to try it out for a few weeks to see if I should make a switch permanently. [...]