Nikon and Canon - newest SLRs will be updated with Windows Vista Support for “raw” images and also a number of older cameras too from Canon . Raw images contain more data than JPEG and give photographers more control over processing, but different cameras and manufacturers use different proprietary formats, making support a challenge. Microsoft relies on camera makers to supply customers with “codec” software that lets Windows Vista read the proprietary raw image formats. Apple writes its own codecs, and Windows XP doesn’t have any built-in support for viewing raw images.

The software also supports a number of older compact and SLR cameras from years past that supported raw files, said Chuck Westfall, a Canon spokesman and tech guru, and works with the Windows Live Photo Gallery software on Windows XP.

The new versions of these products bring support for the new cameras, and in the case of Digital Photo Professional, adds the ability to correct some lens aberrations.

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If your system is taking a lot of time to shutdown,then - This tutorial is for you . Did you know that Windows XP keeps a couple of values in its registry which determines how long to wait before shutting down open applications and services once the shutdown command has been given . There are two settings and converting them to lower values , you can decrease the amount of time that Windows XP needs to properly shut itself down . Here are a couple of steps you can take to speed up the shutdown process:

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Alongside the Mac OS X 10.4.11 updates today, Apple also released a new beta of Safari for Windows.The latest Safari beta for Windows incorporates a number of stability, performance and security improvements. A number of new features are detailed as well, including:

New Features

1. Allows windows to be resized from any side
2. Includes an additional font smoothing option (”standard”)
3. Adds International text input methods
4. Adds advanced text options (contextual forms, international scripts)
5. Supports NTLM
6. Includes auto-detection of PAC files
7. Supports listing FTP directories
8. Links to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
9. Adds cookie management
10. Adds LiveConnect support
11. Includes tooltips
12. Adds spell checking and grammar checking
13. Allows printing of page numbers, titles, margins
14. Improves bookmark collection interface
15. Maintains original order of imported bookmarks
16. Adds an interface for editing AutoFill information
17. History searches now search the full text of visited websites
18. Adds a new preference to manually mark RSS articles as read
19. Includes support for tilt wheels

Apple also incorporated Safari 3 with the Mac OS X 10.4.11 update, bringing the final version of Safari 3 to Tiger users. Apple first released Safari for Windows in June at WWDC 2007.

Download : Safari 3.0.4 (Windows)

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