I was playing with the video features in Caitlin’s new iPod and found it very easy to use QuickTime Pro to make iPod videos. For fun, I exported my OSCON “Building Liquid Websites with PHP†talk to the iPod (download, 139MB).
After I read that Microsoft quietly discontinued support for Windows Media on Mac OS X, I didn’t know what to make of it. Just another free app for the Mac that Microsoft is discontinuing—guess MSN Messenger is next on the chopping block. As a consunmer, it reminded me that I needed to install a Windows […]
Mac OS X Tiger is full of features you never notice until someone is looking over your shoulder saying, “What’s that?†In this case, Joseph was looking over my shoulder and what he noticed was an accidental drop down sheet in Address Book that led me to realize that Address Book supports address book sharing […]
Blake sent me this URL to the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. Man, I wish this was on iTunes Music Store—I’d actually get an Video iPod for this. Watch it to see who will survive.
Someone asked on Flickr how you get waterblur in your photographs. You can go into aperture priority stick and stop down to f/22 to get waterblur, but you are hitting the diffraction limits of the lens and losing sharpness. (Remember, if you have a polarizer hanging around, it doubles as an 2-stop ND filter. If […]
I think what Frey did was wrong and probably potentially harmful to real drug addicts out there, but it wasn’t that interesting until I read that Oprah put her stamp of approval on it—“essential emotional truths†my ass. We live in a world of political double speak, where even the big O thinks she is […]
LA Times reports on a California lawsuit concerning “Intelligent Design.†Since Intelligent Design as a science was universally shut down, the idea this time is to nominally call Intelligent Design “Philosophy of Design†while teaching it as a science or religion course. It’s a lot like a long car trip with your older brother in […]
MacRumors reports in passing that the new Intel Macintoshes are using EFI (Official page, wikipedia).
Robert Gordon, a Yale Law School Professor, writes the most interesting summary of the case against the Alito nomination I’ve seen.
Ethan pointed out to me this press release from Nikon UK that points out that Nikon Japan is getting rid of most 35mm SLR film bodies, all large-format lenses and enlarging lenses, many manual focus 35mm lenses and related accessories. I emphasize the word “most†because many people are reading this as “all†when, in […]