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 as a clever graphic, two features a personal blog like this doesn’t have.
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.
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 going to buy dSLR anyway.
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, which is a DV camera.
Google is planning to create GDrive for all your online storage needs.
Is anyone surprised?
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 before release. What this means is I’ve forgotten what is in this release. For me, [...]
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 News Sci/Tech section even after a mediocre product announcement.
More is the pity because Origami is [...]
(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 Aperture 1.1 will be a universal binary and available as a free update, paving my [...]
