I thought I would start off this LONG overdue update with a little humor… I recently read an article about a man in Atlanta who had a very interesting time recently with his iPod Nano. Apparently, while the man was at work (at an airport kiosk), his iPod spontaneously combusted in his pants! The man said he didn’t notice anything until the flames reached his chest! Witnesses say the only thing that kept him from sustaining serious injury was a piece of paper in the same pocket that acted as a shield.

The man told a local TV station “If [the] TSA had come by and seen me smoking, they could have honestly thought I was a terrorist.”

Let this be a lesson to us all to be very careful when carrying our iPods around, especially if we work at an airport!

Knoll Light Factory 3.0 Released

Digital Anarchy has just released the newest version of their ever-popular Knoll Light Factory plugin for Photoshop. This plugin is said to sport a totally new interface and is also fully compatible with Photoshop CS3.

Knoll Light Factory is a very cool plugin that allows you to create custom lens flares and other lighting effects on your images in Photoshop. This release of the plugin also supports real-time previewing which is a much needed change from previous versions. Check out Digital Anarchy for more information.

CS3 Printing Fix Coming Soon

John Nack posted on his blog this week that Adobe recognizes the printing issues many users are having with Photoshop CS3 (especially you poor folks on Windows) and they are rapidly working on a fix. Click here to read the entire post.

Adobe Demos 3D Camera Technology

CNET has posted a very interesting article that talks about Adobe’s new 3D camera technology. I personally saw a brief demo of this new 3D technology at Photoshop World, and I must say it is absolutely mind-blowing! I really hope this idea comes to fruition and we see this on store shelves one day because this could really change the entire landscape of digital imaging and photography in my opinion. Click here for the full article.

There’s a Photoshop For You…

If you are still on the fence about which version of Photoshop is right for you, Adobe has posted a very helpful page that gives users the opportunity to decipher the differences between Standard and Extended and see which one suits their workflow the best. I am really glad Adobe posted this page because this decision will be different for everybody, and until you go through and compare your needs to the functionality of these products, you’ll just be stuck at a digital crossroads. Check out Adobe’s page here.

Podcast Updates

Unfortunately I am still having some serious website and server issues so podcast production could be delayed again this week. I have the episodes recorded and ready to go, I am just having trouble getting them on to the server without crashing. Some people are reporting that Revver is back up and working for them as well but that is certainly NOT the case with me. Hopefully I will get a response from the Revver team soon so that we can diagnose this problem. I apologize for the lack of progress but I am working on it… I promise!

Well, that is the news for today. Hopefully I will be back tomorrow with more updates and some good news from the podcast front! Have a good day everybody.