A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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Another Photo Featured on a Seattle Blog
Dew Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Metroblogging Seattle featured my photo "Dew" on their site Thursday as visual accompaniment to a blog post. Metroblogging Seattle is one of a few Seattle-specific sites I track via an RSS news reader (I use NetNewsWire for Mac). As with Seattlest—where one of my photos appeared a ...
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New: Photoshop Elements 5 VQS!
Okay, this is a bit belated, but I’ve been busy. My last big deadline in January was a bit of a departure for me: a book about a Windows program. Toward the end of last year, my editor at Peachpit Press asked if I’d be interested in updating an existing book. The original author wasn’t ...
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Making Perfect Espresso at Illy
Chef David Lebovitz is in living in Europe for a while, and went to Trieste to learn about espresso from the masters at Illy: Making Perfect Espresso at Illy. It’s a good read, though it does sound like Illy set things up so that they come off as the heroes (see theshot.coffeeratings.com, where I first ...
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At the Starbucks Annual Meeting; “The Memo”
At this morning’s annual meeting for Starbucks shareholders, Chairman Howard Schultz appeared sternly defensive about what he called, “The Memo,” a critical note to the company’s board of directors (see “The Commoditization of Starbucks, by Howard Schultz“). Although a small portion of the two-plus hour meeting mentioned the memo specifically, the tone of the presentation ...
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HD Coming via Apple TV
At Macworld Expo, Apple hinted that the Apple TV would be able to play 720p HD video, but there weren’t many details. The last updates to QuickTime and iTunes bring some concrete evidence: QuickTime Player now offers an Export to Apple TV option that’s capable of creating videos at 1280 by 720 resolution. Hopefully, this ...
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Newborn Hair
Newborn Hair Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Congratulations to our friends Agen and Parie, who now have a third person living in their house!
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Seattlest Photo of the Day
Reflected Sunset Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Local-area blog Seattlest chose my photo "Reflected Sunset" as its photo of the day for March 16. I don’t know the name of the building, but it’s across from the bus-stop intersection at Second Ave and Jackson downtown, just behind the Seattle Lighting Company. If you’ve ...
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Camping Out in Cafés
In a post’s comments, reader Rick writes: RE: your recent review of Seattle coffeehouses and how nice it is to do work in them: Grr… Jeff, hate to say it, but it’s people like you, i.e. those folks who camp out in Seattle coffee houses all day to do their day jobs or homework, that ...
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Battlestar Galactica Videomaker Toolkit
I’m late to the new BG series, catching up with the help of Netflix and what little spare time I have right now. It’s a compelling show, with amazing special effects and good writing. Now, the producers have created the Battlestar Galactica Videomaker Toolkit, a collection of video and audio clips from the show that ...
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Canon TX-1 Hybrid HD Camcorder
When Canon announced its $500 PowerShot TX-1 recently, I was skeptical. It’s a tiny camera, about the size of my old S200 still camera, that can take 7.1 megapixel still images and also capture 720p HD footage. We’ve seen similar attempts (like the Sanyo Xacti) that haven’t been impressive in real life. Well, Gizmodo is ...
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