The dominant wavelength of a color. A color system, or model, measures color by hue, saturation and luminance. The hue is the predominant color, the saturation is the color intensity, and the luminance is the brightness. See HSB.
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- Virgin Mobile TNT (Kyocera Adreno S2400)
- Virgin Mobile's cell phones tend to stick to the basics. Even when they offer cameras, like the UTStarcom Arc and the Samsung Slash, the handsets concentrate on doing what a cell phone should do. The prepaid carrier's latest model, the Kyocera TNT, certainly follows this format. Like the recent LG...
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- An apology to the Vietnam vets out there
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- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- NEC AccuSync LCD22WMGX (22-inch)
- For a 22-inch display, the NEC AccuSync LCD22WMGX packs in a lot of features for its price (as low as $300 online) including built-in speakers, a headphone jack, HDMI and component connections, VGA and DVI ports, and many software-based enhancements for viewing photos. The sacrifice for these features? The monitor...
- Product reviews 2008-08-04
- ActSoft Color Picker ActiveX (exe)
- ActSoft Color Picker is an ActiveX control that looks like Office color dialog, with much more easy way of selecting colors. It has a drop down palette, Office style, and color dialog box style which ease user work to select any color. There is also a property page that allows...
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- PhotoChances LAB (exe)
- Large collection of photography filters and effects. Random effect generator on your images. Ability to capture and replicate the effects in any other images at any time. The recipe of effects is stored inside the saved images and can be easily reused in other pictures with additional control as contrast,...
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- Colormancer (zip)
- Colormancer is a color enhancement filter for Adobe Photoshop. It allows photographers to breathe life into their images through tweaking the contrast, brightness, and saturation. Advanced color science The filter is designed to sacrifice speed in order to avoid shortcuts in processing color. It uses linear light processing to ensure...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Samsung Soul SGH-U900 (unlocked)
- Photo gallery:Samsung SoulThe Samsung Soul (aka the SGH-U900) was one of the stars of this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung showed it off at a big press conference and huge banners with images of the phone covered the city, from the airport baggage claim to the convention center....
- Product reviews 2008-06-24
- LG LX400
- LG is typically more known for its consumer-level handsets like the LG Voyager and the LG Chocolate. So it was a pleasant surprise to us when we found out LG was partnering with Sprint to come up with the LG LX400, one of the first phones to support QChat, a...
- Product reviews 2008-06-23
- Lexmark Z2420
- The Lexmark Z2420 inkjet photo printer is a refresher to last year's Z1420, and after all our tests are said and done, we're not sure what prompted the update--the Z2420 appears to be of the same build, print speed, and output quality as its predecessor. Sure, the printer is relatively...
- Product reviews 2008-05-16
- Falco Image Studio (exe)
- Key Features for Falco Image Studio. Loading from BMP, GIF, PNG, JPG files. Saving in JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP formats. Unlimited UNDO/REDO. Copy/Paste in Multi - Windows. Paste from others Image Editors like MS Paint. Pencil, Line, Text, Rectangle, Ellipse, Filled Rectangle, Filled Ellipse, Fill Tool, Selection Tool, Color Selection...
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- Blaupunkt Brisbane SD48
- With the Brisbane SD48 digital media receiver, Blaupunkt--a name synonymous with car stereos of old--is proving that it can make products for the digital age. It may look like a regular single-DIN head unit, but like the Alpine iDA-X001, the Brisbane SD48 is a "mechless" device designed to support digital...
- Product reviews 2008-05-07
- Samsung Muse SCH-U706 - blue (Alltel)
- As a longtime purveyor of basic cell phone with simple features, Alltel's reputation wasn't built on offering fancy, feature-laden handsets. But in the last year, the carrier has come a long way toward challenging its larger rivals. A few weeks ago it added the LG Glimmer to its lineup, and...
- Product reviews 2008-04-30
- Sony Ericsson K850i - black (unlocked)
- Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson K850iWe don't get many Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot cell phones in the United States, which is unfortunate considering that they tend to be quality devices. We liked the Sony Ericsson K790a and the K800i so much that they both won our Editors' Choice Award. Indeed, both handsets offered...
- Product reviews 2008-04-28
- Canon Pixma iP100
- Canon continues its lineage of successful Pixma portable inkjet printers with the iP100, an upgrade from last year's iP90v. This time around, Canon increased the number of ink nozzles and doubled the maximum resolution to 4,800x1,200 dpi color. As a result, we've seen significant improvements in both print speed and...
- Product reviews 2008-04-22
- Samsung Armani
- When the LG Prada hit the scene more than a year ago, touch-screen phones were still a novelty. It stood out from the rest of the crowd with its sleek, minimalist look and designer house backing. Since then, the Apple iPhone has taken the touch-screen crown and has become the...
- Product reviews 2008-04-17
- Motorola Z9 (AT&T)
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- Product reviews 2008-04-16
- Plantronics Discovery 925 - black
- Save for a few exceptions, Bluetooth headset designs haven't changed much over the past few years. Most of them just look progressively smaller and blockier. There are some standouts though, like the Aliph Jawbone with its perforated shell, and the Callpod Dragon with its circular disc shape. This year, Plantronics...
- Product reviews 2008-04-01
- Standards and pragmatism in web browsers
- Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- 3D Eagle Mountain Lake (OSX) (zip)
- A rippling lake with jumping fish rounds out the natural elements of this serene mountain scene. Soft string music further soothes the spirit. Want a restful nighttime scene? Just set the time of day to nighttime and a dark shadowy blue hue is cast over the lake, flying eagles, mountains,...
- Software downloads 2008-02-27
- 3D Garden Waterfalls (OS X) (zip)
- Lush garden surrounds rock-trimmed waterfalls. Multiple streams pour into pond as goldfish jump and butterflies flutter by. Serene music plays in MP3 format. Just set the time of day to nighttime and a dark shadowy blue hue is cast on plants and butterflies. The sunset setting produces a deep reddish...
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
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