Cortados on the Beach with CoffeeGeek Mark Prince
Mark Prince, founder of CoffeeGeek.com, made cortados for my wife and I at a beach in Victoria, BC using portable espresso equipment.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Tapeless Camcorders at Macworld.com
This is basic information, but a good roundup of some DVD and hard-disk based camcorders and how they don’t work on the Mac: “Tapeless Camcorders and the Mac.” So if you’re an avid video maker and you plan to continue editing with your Mac, I’d say the safest bet right now is to stick with ...
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Web Design for Print Designers – Resources
My second presentation at the HOW Design Conference was “Web Design for Print Designers.” Here are a list of resources I mentioned. My apologies if you looked for this last night; I ended up crashing hard at about 9 pm (the first night I’ve slept more than about 5 hours in too many days)! A ...
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Wrangling Fonts Presentation Links
At the HOW Design Conference today, I gave a presentation called “Wrangling Your Fonts.” Here is a list of resources that I mentioned (or didn’t mention but found useful). “Avoid the Most Common Mac OS X Font Mistake,” by Sharon Zardetto Aker; TidBITS, 2006-05-29 Take Control of Mac OS X Fonts, by Sharon Zardetto Aker ...
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How to Purchase My Photos
Speaking of photos, the last post – plus a query from a friend – prompted me to point out that you can now purchase some of my photos, as either prints or fully framed. I wrote an article last year about printing photos for the Seattle Times (see the blog post here), and one of ...
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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 ...
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NYTimes on Tiny “HD” Camcorders
David Pogue’s technology column this week reviews the Canon PowerShot TX1, the Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2, and the (no-so-tiny) Panasonic HDC-SD1. Each captures high-definition video, but at varying qualities, and each stores the media on memory cards instead of tape. Pogue’s review, “Not-So-High- Definition Camcorders,” is also full of some good one-liners, such as: Each model ...
