Monthly Archives: January 2006

Domestic spying reframed

Posted on 24 January 2006 by tychay

The new watchword is to replace “domestic spying” with “Terrorist Surveillance”. It consisted of a three-pronged assault of the news: Bush speaking at Kansas, A.G. Alberto Gonzales speaking at Georgetown University Law Center, and Karl Rove speaking at the Republican … Continue reading →

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TimesSelect’s first 150k

Posted on 24 January 2006 by tychay

Editor and Publisher reports that TimesSelect gets 156,000 web subscribers in the first 4 months which is among the 390,000 total web subscription base.
At $49.95 a pop, that’s a $7.3 million and $19.5 million respectively. Doesn’t sound bad, certainly not … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economics | 1 Comment

Disney picks up Pixar?

Posted on 23 January 2006 by tychay

If the Telegraph is to be believed then the Disney is about to get Pixar for $7 billion dollars in stock making Jobs’s 50% share in Pixar the single largest shareholder in Disney.
Wow!

Posted in about me, business and economics | 2 Comments

Fake or Photo fun

Posted on 23 January 2006 by tychay

A fun discussion on Flickr pointed me to this site that contains a quiz where you guess images as “fake” or “photo”?

The site is sponsored by Alias, they have been the king of 3D graphics for many years now. I … Continue reading →

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Canon’s 30 millionth

Posted on 19 January 2006 by tychay

DPReview posted that Canon built their 30 millionth EF lens. This is quite a feat since they only introduced the mount in 1987 (a new mount to go along with a new “EOS” body which added Minolta’s auto-focusing ideas into … Continue reading →

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Scanning resolution…

Posted on 19 January 2006 by tychay

Here is a question I received today:
We’re planning to buy the 35mm film negatives from our wedding photographer, and we would like to have them scanned into digital format (as a back-up, and so friends/family can order prints). A friend … Continue reading →

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Moving to the Front Row

Posted on 19 January 2006 by tychay

I’m always amazed that so many Mac users haven’t seen Front Row just because it is installed only on an iMac (G5 and Core Duo).
Now that the MacBook Pro is out with the Front Row installed, I recalled that there … Continue reading →

Posted in Macintosh | 5 Comments

Year of the Dog

Posted on 18 January 2006 by tychay

“Dog ‘06” by Mnemonix

Michael Rowley whom I know from work designed some kick butt Chinese New Year images for Plaxo eCards. You can check them out here (they’re the one’s marked “new”).
He uses his mad pict-o-graphics skills on one of … Continue reading →

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Feeding the Canon trolls

Posted on 18 January 2006 by tychay

I hate how nearly every discussion that mentions Canon and Nikon in the same breath degenerates into a pissing contest. Yes, I’ve been guilty of this myself, but I like to think my rants are of a different quality than … Continue reading →

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ZF lenses

Posted on 17 January 2006 by tychay

Zeiss today announced the much rumored foray into Nikon SLR cameras with the ZF lens series for the Nikon F-mount. (Previously Zeiss only made interchangeable photo lenses for Contax.)
These lenses are manual-focus prime lenses. In particular a 50mm (Planar T* … Continue reading →

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