With all the commotion around the next-generation iPhone (4th Gen — if you’re keeping track) today, I started to think about the flash mechanisms used in mobile phones and small point-and-shoot cameras.
As you may have seen, the next-gen iPhone has a small flash next to the camera’s lens (photo below).

This is the way most camera [...]

Last night I had some trouble accessing various areas on Viddler; namely my dashboard.
After about half an hour everything was back to normal and Viddler now has a new video page design. The most exciting new features — widescreen without letterboxing, faster player loading, new embedding options — are detailed on The Viddler Spotlight.
The very [...]