Article: Flipboard: Now You Can Publish Your Own "Magazine"

Would you use Flipboard to curate your own magazine? I think its kind of a cool idea. I'm not sure I would spend a lot of time building a magazine product, but I'm sure many will be using it to promote their content. Flipboard: Now You Can Publish Your Own "Magazine" http://readwrite.com/2013/03/26/flipboard-expands-platform-enables-users-to-create-their-own-magazines

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Mobile Cameras No Longer About Megapixels

A feature of the iPhone that is very annoying is the low megapixel rear facing camera. For the longest time I wondered why can't Apple fit a really nice 13MP camera in the iPhone. And they could. But maybe it's not about megapixels any more. I ran across this from HTC today, http://www.htc.com/www/zoe/, the Ultra Pixel Camera, which will appear in the new HTC One. The company claims a 300% performance increase over a 13 megapixel camera. I'm not really sure what that means, but the specs talk about "advanced CMOS Sensor, ISP, and optical lens system that captures significantly more light than most 8 or 13 megapixel cameras."

I know most people are used to measuring a cameras value by the number of megapixels (I am/was one of those people). However, of the picture quality can be improved digitally, then I guess I don't care what the megapixels are, only that it produces a very high quality true image.

This Verge review of the HTC One kinda puts the Ultra Pixel camera to the test and didn't care much for it.

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