Adobe offers Elements with Photoshop.com promo

Adobe Systems has begun shipping its enthusiast-oriented Photoshop Elements 7 image-editing software and Premiere Elements 7 video-editing software--and is offering a promotion to try to lure users to its online Photoshop.com site as well.

The Elements software costs US$99.99 each or US$149.99 as a bundle. New with this version, Adobe also is offering a US$179.99 price that includes a one-year Photoshop.com Plus membership. Ordinarily, a Photoshop.com Plus subscription costs US$49.99 a year, so you're basically getting a US$20 price break, at least until the time comes to renew for another year.

Photoshop.com offers tutorials, online albums for backing up and sharing your shots, and access to the Photoshop Express online editing tool. The free basic version comes with 2GB of storage, and the Plus level comes with 20GB of storage.
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A calculative spy camera

Spy cameras these days come in different shapes and sizes. For the Bond wannabe, there is the really petite Minox spy camera, a pen camera and the sunglasses shooter. These gadgets probably won't look good on an accountant (or nerd), and this is where the calculator camera comes in.

Chinavasion is touting the gizmo as the "ultimate wireless office surveillance" tool. A small camera is built into the side of the calculator, so you can pretend to be punching in figures while you're actually recording a clip of your office nemesis digging his nose, to blackmail him with later.

A wireless receiver is included in the package. From there you can receive real-time streams of what the lens on the calculator is seeing. Sound and visual data are recorded in your receiver which has an SD card expansion slot.

Priced at US$192.50, this shooter isn't cheap. But if it will save you the cost of buying new stationery every few days, then drop by its retail site for a look.

Via CraziestGadgets

Olympus' poetic shooter

Great photographers are sometimes referred to as visual poets, telling stories with pictures that can be as descriptive as poems by Edgar Allen Poe, the late American poet.

Olympus is blurring the line between poetry and photography by introducing the Komachi Kit, comprising the petite E-420 dSLR and the 25mm F2.8 pancake lens. Drawing inspirations from Ono no Komachi, a Japanese poet most noted for her beauty, Olympus is including a hand-sewn leather case and matching straps to go along with the shooter.

While using this kit won't make you an instant literary genius, we think the retro-looking camera case should raise a few eyebrows.

Priced at around US$950, it is available now in retail stores in Japan, Europe and other selected regions.

PrintWhatYouLike makes any site printer friendly

There's nothing worse than trying to print a two-page article from the Web and have it print out in a half-inch column across 37 sheets of paper. It happens all the time, and if the site you're on doesn't have a special printer friendly option, your only other method is to use a special software, or attempt to save the page as a PDF then print it out later.

A service called PrintWhatYouLike takes all the work out of this, and does you one better by letting you select only the parts of the page you want to print, leaving things like large Flash ads, site menus, and other clutter off of your precious bathroom reading.

To do this you just plug in the page's URL. You then have the options of simply clicking the parts of the page you want, or getting rid of things like the site's background and images. There are also some handy tools to change the text size, along with a font changer in case you're printing something off a page that insists on using undersized, illegible fonts.

The service is completely free and worth bookmarking. Power users will want to make use of the bookmarklet, which lets you print any page you're looking at without having to jump back and forth. Just one click and it brings up the special PrintWhatYouLIke interface.

Via CNET Crave

Make a Canon dSLR out of wood

Can't afford a high-end Canon dSLR? Well, if you have a good pair of hands, you can pretend to own one by making this wood model. Found on Canon's Camera Museum site are instructions on how to paste, cut and shape pieces of balsa wood to make a dSLR model. Looking at the instructions, it's not an easy task, so don't expect to be able to make one yourself just because you are capable of assembling some papercraft models. If you do make one successfully, this will make a great home decorative piece for showing off how handy you are.

Instructions here | Via Notcot

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