Noise as a GUID

An interesting article from the Discovery Channel about using noise to match digital images to the camera that shot it in much the same way bullet markings can be used to match to the gun that fired it. My Nikon D70 has a really hot pixel in the lower left of the sensor (upper right). […]

Applying common sense to what you read

As has been mentioned many times on the blogs already, The Apple v. Apple lawsuit ended in favor of Apple Computer. And to everyone who claimed that that Apple Corps were sure to win, I’d like to point out more of us need to do a common sense parse of the news we read. Look, […]

The Truth about [insert YASNS flavor of the month]

From some random Flickr browsing, I came across an amusing description of MySpace profiles. The site I guess is a parody of “The Drudge Report” a conduit by which the right-wing field tests their latest talking points. The article felt eerily familiar, like something I read once on a Right-Wing humor site, Buttafly (Part II […]

mediamux

“Well, at least one camera is steady” Caitlin started a blog about content creation in sight, sound, and motion called mediamux. It’s just a start, but if you ever do video content creation, or just like to discuss it, you should subscribe to it. One of her early entries covers the RedOne digital cinecamera, which […]

Music for free (with strings)

Neil Young has introduced his new album on his website for free. The interesting thing is it forces you to listen to it in its entirety—the actual website consists of two interacting swf file and a GIF used to track stats. This way it won’t undercut sales of the CD or downloads when it is […]

Aperture team rumors

I found this article about Aperture’s future in ThinkSecret. Because of all the misconceptions in the MacRumors discussion of it, I decided to post the link without any commentary in order to encourage people to actually read the article. In any case, the rumor and its assorted fallout has generated a lot of discussion in […]

DxO updated to 3.55a

DxO Optics Pro has been upgraded to 3.55a as a free update. Most of the new changes are cosmetic/UI changes: New configurable “docked palette” mode for easy access to all adjustment tools; Improved configuration wizard; The “Automatic” mode of DxO Optics Pro is now easily and fully configurable thanks to a “Default preset”; Option to […]

LX1 and Aperture

In order to get the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 (or Leica DIGILUX-2) to work in Aperture you first have to convert it to DNG using Adobe DNG Converter. Then you follow these directions which a commenter provides the trick. Open “/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/ Versions/A/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/ A/Resources/Raw.plist” as an administrator. Search “DMC-LC1” and copy the chunk of XML in there […]