“Dog ’06†by Mnemonix Michael Rowley whom I know from work designed some kick butt Chinese New Year images for Plaxo eCards. You can check them out here (they’re the one’s marked “newâ€). He uses his mad pict-o-graphics skills on one of them. There is another clever one from with an image kindly provided by […]
I hate how nearly every discussion that mentions Canon and Nikon in the same breath degenerates into a pissing contest. Yes, I’ve been guilty of this myself, but I like to think my rants are of a different quality than mindless cheering of “my team.†Having said that, I wanted to piss on another troll […]
Zeiss today announced the much rumored foray into Nikon SLR cameras with the ZF lens series for the Nikon F-mount. (Previously Zeiss only made interchangeable photo lenses for Contax.) These lenses are manual-focus prime lenses. In particular a 50mm (Planar T* 1.4/50 ZF) and 85mm (Planar T* 1.4/85 ZF) lenses. Probably much better constructed than […]
On Martin Luther King Day, Gore delivered an extremely well-written bi-partisan speech indicting the Bush administration and attempting to deliver us from the precipice. I’m certain that the Right Wing will not debate the merits of this speech but simply say, “Gore? Who dey?” or some such. A pity.
Arn posts a roundup of the Macworld 2006 rumors. I have always loved the work he has done there, even though MacRumors is an aggregator of rumors, not a news site itself, he seems to have a “taste†for what is good Mac news and what isn’t living up to his tag-line: “news and rumors […]
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 […]