HD DVD delays

According to the latest article from Gizmodo, the HD DVD player launch will, most likely, be delayed. (more after the fold)

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 well as a clever graphic, two features a personal blog like this doesn’t have.

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.

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 they’re going to buy dSLR anyway.

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 AG-DVX100, which is a DV camera.

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 weeks before release. What this means is I’ve forgotten what is in this release. For […]

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 Google News Sci/Tech section even after a mediocre product announcement. More is the pity because […]

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, is that Aperture 1.1 will be a universal binary and available as a free update, […]

Mac Mini switches to Intel

It wasn’t more than a year ago when I wrote in my OSCON bio: Terry Chay is the only Mac user at Plaxo, where he develops the web-based version of their product (they tolerate him because he stinks at CounterStrike). A few weeks ago, IT purchased a couple of Mac Minis to ramp up Mac […]