Wi-Fi geolocation made easier

If you were planning to take that work laptop of yours to some undisclosed location thinking your employer would be none the wiser, think again.

Absolute Software Corporation, a provider of firmware-based computer theft recovery, announced on Monday that it has added Wi-Fi geolocation tracking to its Computrace line of mobile computer antitheft products. Users can now track their computing devices on a Google map using either GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation location information sent from the laptop.

John Livingston, Chairman and CEO of Absolute Software, said: "The addition of Wi-Fi tracking enables organizations to track their Wi-Fi enabled computing assets, such as desktops, laptops, and Netbooks, on a single worldwide map. When used effectively, this intuitive tool can help them mitigate losses by enabling simple and timely identification of when an asset may have moved to unauthorized locations."
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Camera lens or calendar?

At first glance, this could easily be mistaken for a camera lens. But look closely at the focus, shutter speed, and aperture rings and you'll see that it is in fact a calendar.

Designed by photographer Sharad Haksar, the calendar--which goes all the way to the year 2032--is sculpted from a single block of aluminum.

While this is a pretty cool gift for photogs and collectors of unusually designed everyday objects, you better really like the person. According to a post on Yanko Design, the calendar is available for purchase for US$2,000.

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Jobo adds Mac support for PhotoGPS geotagger

Back in September, I mentioned a new GPS geotagging device for digital cameras with hot shoes, the Jobo PhotoGPS. Unfortunately, at launch, Jobo left Mac users out of the picture, so to speak: The included software used to match the receiver's recorded data to photos transferred to a computer was Windows only. However, arriving a little later than originally planned, there is now a Mac version of the software.

For the unfamiliar, the PhotoGPS is a small and lightweight GPS receiver that fits directly on any digital camera's hot shoe--just like a flash unit. The US$175 device allows automatic geotagging by capturing raw GPS and time data and then pairing it with the photos you shoot once they are offloaded to a computer.

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Pentax's president raves about the Leica D-Lux 4

Most imaging companies' employees probably wouldn't be caught dead using their competitors' products, but it seems Ned Bunnell, president of Pentax Imaging (USA), thinks otherwise.

On his personal blog, he wrote about how impressed he was with the Leica D-Lux 4 (equivalent to the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3) and gave a short, positive review of this shooter. Bunnell commented that the "lens is sharp and distortion seems to be very well controlled".

His affection for a competitor's shooter garnered some pretty interesting comments from readers. Some people are baffled as to why the president of Pentax would be raving about Leica's products when he should be more focused on his company's directions. However, some Netizens think Bunnell is doing an excellent job by looking at what the market currently and trying to improve on it with future Pentax cameras.
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