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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Why I don’t delete my NEFs
Someone asked on Flickr if they should delete their camera raw files after converting to Adobe DNGs. Certainly you can see a strong pressure from Adobe to do so in order to save some hard drive space.
I don’t.
Posted in photography
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Aperture 1.0.1 update
Drew mentioned that Apple released an update to Aperture. This is probably the first of many though don’t expect anything major:
White balance adjustment accuracy and performance
Image export quality
Book and print ordering reliability
Auto-stacking performance
Custom paper size handling
Aperture depends on the ImageIO … Continue reading
Posted in Apple Aperture, Macintosh
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Another war lost
It is sad that I have to resort to foreign outlets to be able to read a writeup of Iraq’s elections that is free of pundit sound-bites. That sadness is a different and deeper sort when I read the Independent’s … Continue reading
Posted in religion and politics
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Setting opacity in CSS
Last week, I wanted to create a translucent layer to grey out functionality on the site. To do this, create a div that covers the window and set the background color to black.
But how to make it translucent? This webpage … Continue reading
Posted in web development
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D70 Manual
I was looking for the English Nikon D70 manual (all I can seem to find is the Spanish version) and found that this FAQ pointed me to a PDF of the manual downloadable from Nikon Singapore.
Posted in photography
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HP under new management
The business section of the Merc today has two articles on the front page about HP’s nascent recovery under interim CEO Mark Hurd.
So many people base their measure of a person on what they heard about them than the evidence … Continue reading
Posted in business and economics, computers
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Adam Tow: Mac, mobile and photography
I met Adam Tow only once, briefly at the Apple Store Palo Alto opening in 2001. He was on the roof next door taking photos of it.
From what little I know about him, he has three obsessions: Macs, mobile devices … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, photography
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sub rosa
In a NYT editorial concerning America’s use of not-so-clever redefining the word “torture” to deny that America uses “extraordinary rendition†and similar tactics to cause de-facto torture:
But that doesn’t make it any less disturbing that the United States government seems … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, religion and politics, wordplay
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Pringles white balance
“ExpoDisc White Balance Filter†by ExpoImaging
Carl Weese has an article today about using the ExpoDisc for digital white balance with some interesting history: it was used in 35mm film photography, before it found new life in digital.
ExpoDiscs are basically neutral … Continue reading
Posted in photography
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Saturn sets…
What an amazing article in the Times today about the closing of part of a signature Saturn plant.
Anyone in the U.S. in the 90’s remembers the quirky Saturn commercials featuring this Spring Hill plant; how Covey’s book had a ringing … Continue reading
Posted in business and economics
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