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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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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Espressomap
Oooooh: espressomap is a simple site that uses Google Maps to identify excellent espresso venues in North America. Type your zip code to find out what’s near you!
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What Kind of Coffee Are You?
My friend Karen pointed me to What Kind of Coffee Are You? No surprise: You Are an Espresso At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic. At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung. You drink coffee when: anytime you’re not sleeping. Your caffeine addiction level: high. What Kind of Coffee Are ...
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My Macworld Expo Session Online
At Macworld Expo in January, I delivered a session called “Graduate from iMovie to Final Cut Pro” as part of the Users Conference track. I thought it went pretty well, especially since public speaking doesn’t come naturally to me, but I’m working on it. As I was leaving, one man asked if the presentation would ...
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Cinematize 2 Pro review at Macworld.com
Macworld has published my review of Cinematize 2 Pro, a utility for extracting video and audio content from a DVD. The non-pro version also extracts content, but without as many options, such as subtitle extraction (in a variety of formats). Click here to read the full review. When you burn a DVD from an application ...
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The Commoditization of Starbucks, by Howard Schultz
Because I live in a great, coffee-abundant city, I can be a bit disparaging toward our hometown heroes, Starbucks. I have nothing against the company, and they rightly deserve credit for pushing up the quality of espresso in America. But I find their coffee to be just okay. One of the company’s biggest advantages is ...
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More Cameras: HDV Hits Its Stride
When Steve Jobs declared 2005 the “year of high-definition video,” there wasn’t much available to shoot consumer HD, and the only HDV camera at the time (the Sony HDR-FX1) cost $4,000. Now it’s 2007, and the number of HDV camcorders has gotten larger while the prices have started to come down. EventDV.net has published an ...
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Article on Making Money from Web Videos
Scott Kirsner (of CinemaTech fame) has an article in today’s New York Times about several people who are making money (anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000+) by posting their videos on sites that pay for popularity: All the World’s a Stage (That Includes the Internet). When their video reaches a set number of ...
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Spiderbrace Stabilizes Your Camera
BoingBoing points to the Spiderbrace Video Camera Stabilizer, a $70 device that attaches to your video camera to stabilize the image. Digital video camcorders have opened up a whole new world of creative possibilities for today’s independent filmmaker. However, despite all its advantages, the DV camcorder has presented videographers with one obvious problem: the absence ...
