In honor of PMA '08, I've prepared a Pogue inspired list of Digital Camera Imponderables.

1. If an iPod can charge via USB why can't most digital cameras?
   
2. What actually changes when you adjust the ISO setting on a digital camera?
3. Why are memory cards included with digital cameras so pathetically small?
4. Why is there so much digital camera product spam?  It seems within any manufacturer's product line are a couple cameras that are almost the same price but one is significantly worse than the other, or one is way more expensive than the other but only offers trivial benefits.
5. Why didn't Polaroid, a huge innovator in mainstream photography, become a major player in the digi-cam market?
   

Discuss...

Extremetech.com has a great roundup of 5 web based photo editors.  The article is pretty comprehensive (i.e. long), and it's probably more fun to just play with each of the applications.  So without further ado:

1. Snipshot
2. Picture2Life
3. Pixenate
4. PicNik
5. Faxto

Enjoy! And feel free to leave a comment about your favorite.

Rumor has it that Adobe is readying a web-based version of Photoshop, which is nothing short of awesome.  But until it’s finally released there’s Picnik.   With Picnik you can perform basic image editing tasks like resizing, cropping, and exposure (levels!) and color correction.  It's all web based with great speed and compatibility across browsers and platforms thanks to its Flash based interface, and you don’t even need to create an account to use it. 

Picnik.com [via WebWare]

Recently many companies have started making compact, user friendly photo printers which make it easy to print photos from a digital camera, or memory card. However, printing photos is only one part of the transition to digital photograph. Many families still have shoeboxes full of old photos, which if they haven’t taken themselves may have been handed down by grandparents or relatives. So the next need among consumers will be digitizing existing photographs, preferably as quickly and easily as they are used to printing the pictures shot yesterday on a digital camera.