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MSNBC features a fine gallery of The Week in Pictures.

Canon USA has posted EOS Utility 2.10.4 for Mac. The only stated change is compatibility with OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.x.

Canon USA has posted EOS Utility 2.10.4 for Mac. The only stated change is compatibility with OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.x.

Nevercenter has released CameraBag2 a standalone image editor and special effects application available in versions for Windows and Mac. CameraBag 2 includes processing tools such as cropping and a curves editor as well as more than 100 styles and effects filters.

The war on terrorism has become the war on photography, says National Press Photographers Association general counsel Mickey Osterreicher, as quoted on the web site of the (U.S.) National Press Club. In a presentation to Press Club members, Osterreicher detailed what he says is increasing repression and obstruction of photographers, both amateur and professinal, by police in the U.S. using what he refers to as a "catch-and-release" program.

Accessories manufacturer Holdfast has developed a harness designed to hold two or three DSLR cameras in position for immediate use. The harness is intended for wedding photographers, photojournalists, and other shooters who like to work with two or three cameras essentially simultaneously.

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features an interesting gallery on Coal.

Over the last year or so, the supply of FireWire-equipped CompactFlash card readers has almost completely dried up, despite the fact that, for many photographers who use Macs, FireWire is their computer's only peripheral port that's fast enough to allow for efficient offloading of pictures. That's the bad news. The good news is that a new FireWire 800 CompactFlash card reader has arrived on the scene, one that provides true FireWire 800 speeds, a compact design and excellent compatibility with all but certain older cards. Called the Delock Card Reader FireWire B (Nr. 91694), it nicely fills the opening left by the demise of all earlier FireWire readers. If you're a Mac user in particular it may carry you through until native USB 3.0 ports begin popping up on Apple's products. Read on for a rundown of our experience with the Delock reader, based on both six weeks of regular use as well as performance and compatibility testing.

MSNBC features a fine gallery of images in the Week in Sports Pictures.

The Frame from The Sacramento Bee features India's Republic Day 2012, a colourful gallery of images showing the event commemorating the Constitution of India.

The Atlantic features All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks..., a gallery of images solicited from readers.

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a nice gallery of sports images in the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games from Austria.

The Big Picture from The Boston Globe features a nice gallery of sports images in the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games from Austria.

Adobe's Photoshop.com blog has posted a series of questions and answers about the Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta. The questions were collected from Adobe's Facebook and Twitter users.

While peak action and tight images of the face and ball are usually the focus of a tennis gallery, The Atlantic features an interesting gallery of dramatically-lit images on the The 2012 Australian Open.

Next month, photography accessories maker enlight photo will release ioShutter, a cable and an app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that enables these devices to fire a connected camera. The 35.4in/90cm ioShutter cable runs from the headphone jack to the camera's remote input. At launch, one cable will be available for Canon, Pentax and Hasselblad models with a 2.5mm remote port, and a second cable will support N3-socket Canons. A Nikon 10-pin cable is planned. The app is in two flavours, Lite and Pro, with the latter providing the broadest range of control for shooting time lapse sequences, Bulb exposures, sound triggered photos and more, plus the various app functions can be used individually or together. In this article, enlight photo's James Madelin answers our questions about ioShutter, focusing mainly on the features of the Pro version of the app.

NASA today has released a stunning 64-megapixel photo of Earth from space. Assembled from multiple images captured earlier this month by a research satellite orbiting 512 miles (824km) away, the resulting "Blue Marble" view of our planet is similar to past such photos released by the U.S. space agency, except the resolution and detail is much higher.

Slated to begin shipping next month, Lexar Professional 1000X 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB CompactFlash cards will, based on our testing of the 32GB capacity, deliver class-leading in-camera write speeds with newer Canon and Nikon digital SLRs, as well as card-to-computer transfer rates topping out at over 129MB/s, which is far faster than any other memory card we've ever tested. If you have the need for speed, read on.

PDNOnline has recently posted reviews of two software applications, Adobe Photoshop Touch for the Android OS and onOne's Perfect Photo Suite 6, which is available standalone or in plug-in versions for Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and Apple Aperture.

While on a shoot in Kenya, photographer and Aperture Academy instructor Stephen Oachs came across someone taking pictures with the upcoming Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x, EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM and EOS-1D X. But that's not the only gear that caught Oachs' attention. He also spotted - and took a photo of - the same man snapping away with what looks like an as-yet-unannounced Canon digital SLR, one whose button placement and other features distinguish it from existing models.