* Snow Leopard: Apples sleek upgrade Sep 3, 2009
Icons can now be 512 pixels (several centimeters) square, turning any desktop window into a light table for photos. Theres now a Put Back command in the Trash, just as in Windows Recycle Bin. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Start math learning early, make it fun Aug 30, 2009
Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette Four-year-old twins Uma and Jayanthi Simhan work on a light table with different shapes at Shady Lane School in Point Breeze. Many American adults can't explain how to compute miles per gallon, interest paid on a loan or a 15 percent tip. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Learning while doodling May 14, 2009
Kora Cruz (from left) works on a light table while Erica Smith and Ben Fairbanks look on ... Hugo and Jen Heredia of the Imagine U Studio in Spring Valley worked with the three classes, teaching them how to sketch their ideas, use a light table, and mix and blend colors. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Beating the odds Apr 28, 2009
In the couple s basement are two large light tables that Savage helped build. Each table has a hand crank that raises and lowers banks of florescent lights, suspended on cables above rows of bell peppers, pumpkin and cucumber. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Sand artist illustrates Passion Week for Easthaven crowd Apr 8, 2009
And when the show started at Easthaven at 6:30 p.m., Castillo was ready to go with a light table that had been "MacGyver-ed" together in about an hour and 20 minutes by church members. Castillo used the story of the lost luggage to illustrate part of his point as he spoke before his presentation. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
Presidio museum to feature work of Walt Disney Apr 2, 2009
Interactive displays include light tables, more than 200 video monitors and movie posters that also show film footage. At listening stations throughout the museum visitors can hear recordings in which Disney and some of his collaborators discuss his life and work. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Apr 1, 2009
Ever since Creative Suite 3, Bridge looks a lot like Adobe Lightroom and has workspaces which allow you to switch between a maximised thumbnail view, metadata editing, light table view amongst others. MORE DEPTH: Photoshop CS4's Merge and Blend allows you to blend several shots of the same subject with different focal points into one photo with extended depth-of-field. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Technology)
Incredible, edible - Hutterites produce eggs for Billings-area Wal-Mart stores Mar 3, 2009
The eggs are washed white, regimented and rolled across a light table, where Kleinsasser scrutinizes each one for cracks or signs of fertilization before feeding them into the clacking, spring-loaded fingers of a mechanical egg loader, which sorts them by weight and then drops them into cartons. Eggs have become a big business for the Mountain View Colony, representing about a fourth of the business done at this religious community 15 miles northwest of Billings. (Missoulian, MT)
Books in motion: Moving books double-dare kids to splash and twirl Feb 8, 2009
Seder s childhood interest in animation was nurtured by his journalist-photographer father, who showed him how to make cartoons on a hand-built light table with a 16mm Bolex movie camera. He dedicates Swing. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
