Monthly Archives: March 2006

Interesting blog for parents

parent hacks is a blog created by some technical writers/recent parents, devoted to parenting, O’Reilly geek-style. As a parent of nobody, this has little value to me, but somehow this blog “works” because it has a nice focused vertical as … Continue reading

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Nikon D70 #1…on Flickr

Here is a fun little observation that Paul alighted to: The most popular camera model used to create photos uploaded to Flickr on fd’s website is the Nikon D70.

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Death of the Bridge?

Mark Goldstein has a nice little article on the death of the bridge camera over at PhotographyBLOG. I talked about the bridge camera in an earlier article. My main contention is that bridge is often better for more people, but … Continue reading

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Video RAW

Caitlin sent me an interesting website showing off the Andromeda Video Acquisition System. Basically this system purports to take a 3-CCD DV camera and turn it into a high-definition RAW video stream. Note that this only works with the Panasonic … Continue reading

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Google, Google Everywhere

Google is planning to create GDrive for all your online storage needs. Is anyone surprised?

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Server 2.12 released

Plaxo just released Server 2.12. Now that we have a bunch of partners using our website, we had to slide an extra step in the release train that allows the partners to test against the release candidate for a few … Continue reading

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The Origami hype-machine

Pity Microsoft sometimes. What possess them to send out hype announcements just before a Steve Job’s keynote/event? I know Apple has a tiny marketshare, but in the geek world, their mind share is huge. This is why Apple’s announcements top … Continue reading

Posted in Macintosh, Palm, photography | 10 Comments

Aperture 1.1

(Thanks to the people of this Flickr thread for informing me of this.) It looks like Apple caved into all hearsay by photographers and is releasing a new version of Aperture catered to them. The major thing to note, IMO, … Continue reading

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