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I Love Snow
Snow Branches Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson Not to the degree that I want to live in it and deal with a frozen, muddy February, nor even enough to go skiing. I just love it when it appears, as it did today in Seattle.
Shiny Foil Trademark
Shiny Foil Trademark Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson At the beginning of the year, I applied for a trademark on a logo I designed (which is the best-selling design at my Never Enough Coffee store). It involved a fair bit of time and paperwork (and some money, of course), along with a little back-and-forth from ...
“To Burundi and Beyond for Coffee’s Holy Grail”
I’m a late convert to coffee. Before college, it was this brownish muck that everyone older than me drank. And then at some point I had a mocha, and from then on I was mixing Carnation Hot Cocoa mix and some ground French Press from a can to get me through my classes. It’s only ...
The January Project
If you’ve been paying attention to my Flickr gallery lately, you may have noticed a recent picture called “Bump”. That’s not just a random belly: Kim and I are going to be parents near the end of January! I know, we’re rushing into this – we’ve only been married 14 years – but we’re excited. ...
Beautiful Seattle
Ferry Leaving 2 Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson Just wanted to say that I live in a beautiful place. I was eyeing these clouds already downtown, but when I saw that the sun was punching through the clouds and a ferry was about to embark, I quickly found a parking spot under the ...
iMovie HD 6.0.2, iDVD 6.0.2 Updates Released
Check your Software Update preference pane (or click the links below), as Apple released iLife updates today. iMovie HD 6.0.2: This update to iMovie HD 6 addresses issues with Ken Burns rendering performance, scrubber bar editing performance, theme image quality, PAL audio, and displaying iLife Sound Effects automatically in its iLife Media Browser. It also ...
AVCHD: Improved HD Format for Camcorders
This is potentially interesting: Improved HD Format for Camcorders (via Gizmodo). Current consumer HD camcorders record in HDV, which uses MPEG-2 compression to fit HD-sized video onto a MiniDV tape. You still get the large format with more overall pixels, but there’s more compression applied, leading to degraded images (the quality varies widely depending on ...
Seattle Times column: Video Sharing Sites
My most recent Practical Mac column for the Seattle Times on Saturday was about popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube.com, and how to upload movies to them from your Mac. As it happens, if you own a relatively recent Mac and a digital camera (either a camcorder or still camera that can shoot video, which ...
The Onion Scoops Apple
The Onion (“America’s Finest News Source”) scoops the inevitable: iTunes To Sell You Your Home Videos For $1.99 Each. Apple Computer, producer of the successful iPod MP3 player, is now offering consumers limited rights to buy their own home movies from the media store iTunes for $1.99 each.
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