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Here’s a device that can share files between any USB gizmo you have; not just iPods, but all devices that use the USB protocol. Use it on iPods, USB flash drives, MP3 players, video players, digital cameras, virtually anything you can stick a standard USB connector in.

It’s made by Sima Products and they call it Hitch. This device supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 and provides up to 500mA at 5V to both ports simultaneously. It also supports mass storage devices with FAT 8/16/32 and USB PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol); that means it will recognize a connected camera automatically, and you can use your iPod now as a photo bank.

For user interface, the Hitch has a 2.5-inch monochrome LCD screen with back light to help you see what’s going on with your file transfers.

It’s available now for $100.

[Via: CameraTown.com]

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The photo book is fast becoming a popular alternative to printing the usual 6� x 4� photographs, and why not? For just a little more than the cost of all those photos and a good photo album you get your own personal pictures already bound in a coffee table-quality book - shiny, glossy, coffe table book - no need to gather them up and stuff them in a photo album.

This is your new photo album, the photo book. Joining the growing list of companies offering to print your photos in a book is FotoInsight of Cambridge, UK, which launched photo books from an online facility with limited editing features one year ago. Today, the company offers a fast and easy way to create your photo books; even inexperienced users are able to layout their digital images in full color double page spread, move, crop and edit pictures to any size and add text freely within the photo book, on the cover and on the book spine. All these can be done in about 3 minutes.

And the final product can look astonishing, a professionally laid out coffee table style photo book.

All you have to do is download software from them; this will help you make your layout easily. Then you upload your photos and place your order. Photo books can be made with up to 98 pages which will comprise about 500 photos.

FotoInsight’s photo book range starts at about $12 for a 5.1� x 5.5� booklet. Top of the range of 64 models are the 8.6� x 11.8� photo books with up to 98 pages.

[Site: FotoInsight]
[Via: DPnow.com]

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