The MacBook Camcorder
Sure, your MacBook or MacBook Pro has a built-in iSight, but who wants to look at themselves all the time? Using this little clever add-on, you can capture video of what’s on the other side of your laptop’s lid. Good for on-the-fly video interviews, I’d wager. (Link via Gizmodo.) Here’s an idea straight out of ...
Distraction
This cartoon neatly summarizes what my life has been like the last couple of weeks with lots of article deadlines (via BoingBoing, via Cyrus).
Are You Somebody?
Long essay by Tara Ison about dating an unnamed relatively famous actor in LA: “Are you Somebody?” Very much worth the read. His is an awkward level of fame. A mid-level, ambiguous, tenuous degree of famousness, dependent on whether or not you’ve seen his recurring guest spot on a hit network legal drama, the late-night ...
Back up Photos on the Road
Traveling for the holidays? Or just travel in general? Digital cameras let you shoot lots of pictures, but where will you store them? Glenn Fleishman and I co-wrote an article for Macworld about how to deal with an abundance of digital photos, with an eye toward traveling without a laptop in tow. It’s now available ...
Back up Photos on the Road
Traveling for the holidays? Or just travel in general? Digital cameras let you shoot lots of pictures, but where will you store them? Glenn Fleishman and I co-wrote an article for Macworld about how to deal with an abundance of digital photos, with an eye toward traveling without a laptop in tow. It’s now available ...
Aperture Libraries in iLife Apps
I’m writing up this week’s TidBITS coverage on Aperture 1.5, and thought I’d check out how iMovie HD is interacting with the pro photo app. As I expected, your Aperture library and vault shows up in the Media pane, just like iPhoto. I haven’t had a chance to do much more with it, but thought ...
Starbucks Obsessive
Look, people often joke about my business name, Never Enough Coffee Creations, but even I have limits when it comes to consuming coffee (well, depending on the project deadline). But 29 espressos in one day? I’d be a quivering mass of jittery vomit. Here’s a guy who’s decided that he needs to visit every Starbucks ...
To My Republican-Supporting Friends and Family Members
Due to a bill that passed in the Senate today, I want you to understand just what you’ve been supporting since electing George W. Bush as President. I suspect that you’ve bought into the drumbeat, forced into your consciousness, that Democrats are terrorist sympathizers and are interested only in “cutting and running.” But let’s look ...
iLife ’06, iWork ’06 Updated for Aperture 1.5
The Apple developer salt mines are especially active this week, as Apple has updated almost its entire product line. The latest batch of updates to arrive are iLife ’06 and iWork ’06, which add interoperability with Aperture 1.5 (expected to become available this week). The following updaters are available via Software Update or as separate ...
Forget false “compromise”: block torture altogether
Glenn Greenwald, writing at Salon, notes why all the talk of a Republican compromise over the detainee interrogation bill that Bush wants passed is bunk (“The president’s power to imprison people forever“). The fact that the government is actively trying to legalize torture is amazing to me, and proves that the country is off the ...
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 