New iPhone app “scientifically” measures a person’s level of attractiveness
The unquestionably useful new iPhone app “Fit or Fugly,” created by Ed Nash of Taunton, United Kingdom, allows iPhone users to calculate how attractive a face is. The app is now available for download on the Apple App Store for $0.99. Meant to be humorous, it became popular overnight and is already ranking in the [...]
Rite Aid includes imaging products in holiday gift guide
To help cash- and time-strapped shoppers, Rite Aid Corp., Camp Hill, Pa., has simplified holiday shopping with an easy-to-use Holiday Gift Guide available in all stores, a Three Days to Save promotion centered around Thanksgiving and a holiday cash-back program. More than 4,800 stores will be open daily until 11 p.m. Dec. 13-Dec. 23, and [...]
CVS/pharmacy kicks off annual thanks and giving campaign
CVS/pharmacy, Woonsocket, R.I., launches its annual in-store fundraiser for the sixth year to support the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Thanks and Giving campaign, running through Dec. 12. CVS/pharmacy store colleagues will encourage customers to add $1 to their purchase at the register to support the lifesaving research of St. Jude, one of the world’s [...]
Radio Shack testing Thanksgiving Day shopping
Inside Tucson Business reports Radio Shack is testing Thanksgiving Day shopping stores in large markets in the western United States. Certain stores are open on Thanksgiving Day with pre-Black Friday specials. The paper quoted Wendy Dominguez, spokeswoman for Radio Shack: “Our customers are always looking for opportunities. This will help offer people flexibility if they [...]
New York Institute of Photography offers free photo tips with newsletter sign-up
Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010, the New York Institute of Photography is offering a free NYIP Monthly Newsletter to photographers looking to improve their photographic skills. In addition, when photographers sign up for the NYIP online newsletter they will receive as a PDF download, “NYIP’s Three Guidelines and Six Tips for Great Photographs” – [...]
Koide Camera reports stagnant photo book sales
Koide Camera, a major photo retailer having 79 stores in the metropolitan Tokyo area, disclosed, from Sept. 21, 2008, to Sept. 20, 2009, made profit on operation of 155 million yen (US$1.72 million) or 48.6 percent less than the previous year on sales of 6.62 billion yen (US$73.6 million) or 7.2 percent less than the [...]
Firmware updated for Micro Four Thirds lenses
Olympus and Panasonic have updated firmware for five Panasonic Micro Four Thirds lenses to improve their performance with Micro Four Thirds cameras. All five lenses can be upgraded through the latest versions of Olympus Master or Olympus Studio when attached to an Olympus PEN E-P1 or E-P2 camera body. Here’s a summary of the updates: [...]
PMA offices closed today
The offices of PMA, the Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations, Jackson, Mich., are closed today and tomorrow in observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. The office reopens Monday, Nov. 30, at 8 a.m. EST.
Digital Forensics Worldwide saves day by recovering wedding photos
Tovis Bratsburg, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based wedding and portrait photographer, and the owner of Kiwi Sun Photography, inadvertently deleted photos of an entire wedding from his computer. Treasured memories had been lost. Says Bratsburg, “After exhausting nearly every resource I had at my disposal, I called the bride and groom, and it was the hardest [...]
CE chain brings in dry minilabs
Nojima Corp., a middle standing, JASDAQ-listed CE chain running 78 stores in the metropolitan Tokyo area, will start D-print service installing Fujifilm dry minilabs in all of its stores, according to JPEA Photo Electro News. Nojima has some stores at shopping centers in the metropolitan Tokyo area, and retreat of photo dealers from those facilities [...]
