Monthly Archives: March 2006

Interesting blog for parents

Posted on 13 March 2006 by tychay

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 well … Continue reading →

Posted in society and culture, web development | 3 Comments

Nikon D70 #1…on Flickr

Posted on 10 March 2006 by tychay

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.

Posted in photography | 3 Comments

Death of the Bridge?

Posted on 9 March 2006 by tychay

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 they’re … Continue reading →

Posted in photography | 4 Comments

Video RAW

Posted on 9 March 2006 by tychay

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 AG-DVX100, … Continue reading →

Posted in photography | 5 Comments

Google, Google Everywhere

Posted on 7 March 2006 by tychay

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

Posted in business and economics, web development | 1 Comment

Server 2.12 released

Posted on 6 March 2006 by tychay

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 weeks … Continue reading →

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The Origami hype-machine

Posted on 1 March 2006 by tychay

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 Google … Continue reading →

Posted in Macintosh, Palm, photography | 10 Comments

Aperture 1.1

Posted on 1 March 2006 by tychay

(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, is that … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple Aperture, photography | 3 Comments