Google Earth Available for Mac

Google Earth for the Mac is now available for download.

UPDATE: Version 4 has just been released

The MacBookPro and new iMacs, too

Apple Computer has released new PowerBooks (and renamed them). They are impressive, Heaven help our credit cards. TUAW has the specs, and says they run Windows, too. There's a lot more mac news over at Engadget. And what's this? NHL Hockey on the iPod?

Adobe's New Photography Software: Lightroom

Adobe has released a new beta software package for the mac called Lightroom. From the Adobe site:
"Adobe® Lightroom™ Beta is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career."
Sign up for the beta.

UPDATE: New version available.

TV and The Internet: A Round-Up

Lots of news from the world of television advertising with google and yahoo both announcing some industry-shattering news at the recent CES. Read the New York Times Articles Coming Soon to TV Land: The Internet, Actually, and Google and Yahoo Aim at Another Screen, then read Robert Cringely's take on it about halfway through the article. For the techies, Engadget goes Backstage at the Google press conference.

Know Your Rights as a Photographer

Interesting article in the USA Today by Andrew Kantor about your rights as a photographer We've previously emailed A link to his blog which includes the downloadable PDF "Legal Rights of Photographers".

Tips and Tricks with Image Capture

It seems like there's a lot of functionality in Apple's Image Capture Utility located in the applications folder. Read the thread comments over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog to learn a new trick or two.

Cost of Doing Business Calculator for Photographers

The National Press Photographers Association has a Cost of Doing Business Calculator for photographers. Enter your details and learn how much your overhead is for a day of shooting. Handy for budgeting in the new year.