Decked
Deck Refinishing 3 Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson When Kim and I first looked at buying our house, the home inspector pointed out that the deck was in pretty good shape but should be refinished sometime within a year. That was almost four years ago. Each summer, I’ve vowed to take care of it, and ...
Moo.com Stickers!
This is so very cool. Moo.com, the company that offers small business cards and postcards that you create with your own photos, has just started offering stickers. I have nieces and nephews who are crazy about stickers. A book of 90 costs $10 (plus shipping, but that’s free during July), which is no doubt pricey ...
Dear Indy Hipster Coffee Shop Near Where I Work
Radio personality and author John Moe posted a great open letter on his blog to a cafe near his work. I’m curious to know which one, of course, though what he describes isn’t unique to just that one shop: Dear Indy Hipster Coffee Shop Near Where I Work. I know you have a lot on ...
Qwest Is My Hero Today
More specifically, Wayne B. from Qwest is my hero today. For my Internet access at home, I use Speakeasy as my DSL provider. They’ve consistently been great, and I’ve had occasion to test them. Although I subscribe to their 768 kbps data plan, they’ve needed to throttle back my account in order to keep a ...
Behind the Scenes of Cool Sprint Ad
At the movie theater the other night, I saw a really cool ad for Sprint. What appear to be lots of people with flashlights draw all sorts of images, from flowers to giant fish to picture frames and more, all animated using stop-motion photography so that the flashlight beams meld together to create the shapes. ...
Apple Releases QuickTime 7.2, iTunes 7.3.1
Apple has updated QuickTime and iTunes, resolving issues with the H.264 video codec and fixing bugs. The primary changes in QuickTime 7.2 are fixes for several potential security vulnerabilities related to playback of malformed movie files or visiting maliciously crafted Web sites. However, many people will probably notice one other long-overdue change: Movies can now ...
Still Photo versus Video
One of the blogs I frequent is that of still-photographer Doug Plummer (who has also been uploading a photo of the day for more than a year). Doug is currently attending the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, and reports on a panel called “Still vs. Video” that predicts a big shift in how image content is ...
AVCHD Editing Comes to the Mac
[I wrote the following short article for TidBITS. Although the updates are for Final Cut Studio, what’s important from an iMovie-user’s standpoint is that AVCHD is now supported in some fashion; I imagine the next version of iMovie HD (whenever it appears) will also be able to import AVCHD footage.] Apple has released updates for ...
Ken Burns on the Ken Burns Effect
Poynter Online has published an article about the Ken Burns Effect (pan and zoom), which includes information on how to best use the effect from editors such as… Ken Burns. For Burns, any motion on an image comes in pursuit of meaning. He says there are no hard and fast rules: “All there is is ...
Seattle Times Column and Safari 3.0.2
My Seattle Times Practical Mac column today talks about Safari 3, which is a beta for Mac but also for Windows: “Trekking through Apple’s new Safari“. In addition to talking about improvements over Safari 2, I noted Apple’s initial hiccup with Windows security: Safari also offers better security, especially compared with Internet Explorer, which is ...
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