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While BoomTown Still Has Few FaceTime Friends, New Apple Ads Make It Seem Completely Adorkable

in News on July 12, 2010 at 4:24 am PT

As of right now, the only two people I have done FaceTime video phone calls with using Apple’s new feature for the iPhone 4 are All Things Digital’s Walt Mossberg and John Paczkowski. While Patches’s kids–who hijacked the device–are very cute, and Walt likes to hold documents up to the screen to see if I can see them, this has gotten old rather quickly. Which is why when I saw the terrific new video ads for the iPhone, which you can see after the jump, I wished I had such quirkily touching Hallmark moments to share on my mobile device.

Digital Cameras That Do Thinking for You

in The Digital Solution on April 23, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Most people forget their digital cameras have a settings dial that can be adjusted to take pictures in specific circumstances, or don’t know how to use them. Three new digital cameras claim to do the thinking for you, but how are the results?