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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iTunes Smart Playlist Adventure
I almost always listen to music via iTunes while I’m working, but I do find myself gravitating to the handful of recent albums purchased. At some point I created a Smart Playlist that shows me music that hasn’t played during the past year. It’s a nice eclectic mix of tunes, with 121 items covering 9 ...
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iTunes Smart Playlist Adventure
I almost always listen to music via iTunes while I’m working, but I do find myself gravitating to the handful of recent albums purchased. At some point I created a Smart Playlist that shows me music that hasn’t played during the past year. It’s a nice eclectic mix of tunes, with 121 items covering 9 ...
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VisualHub for Video Conversion
Dan Frakes at Macworld looks at VisualHub, a $28 utility for converting video into oodles of formats in “All you need is Hub“: As an example of VisualHub’s performance, I had a 5.8GB, 1 hour 49 minute, AVI version of a movie that I wanted to convert for iPod viewing. QuickTime Player (the Pro version) ...
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Pogue on Digitizing Old Home Movies
New York Times technology columnist David Pogue writes in his weekly email about transferring old home movies (you know, the ones on “film”) to digital formats: “Saving Home Movies From Disappearing Formats“. Old reels of film, however, seemed like a tougher nut to crack. My plan was to demonstrate, on the show, the old “mirror ...
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Our Icy Street Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Looking to lock down a city? Throw some snow and ice at Seattle. Just as Kim and I were returning from a nice snowy Thanksgiving in Montana, we hit Snoqualmie Pass in the middle of a big snow storm. To my surprise, it was snowing ...
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Create Time-Lapse Movie
Macworld has published online an article I wrote: Create a Time-Lapse Movie. Although you can’t fast-forward life (caffeine notwithstanding), you can speed up time in your movies with time-lapse photography. This video technique compresses hours of action into mere seconds—clouds roll overhead, the sun races toward the horizon, and flowers bloom before your eyes. Best ...
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Create Time-Lapse Movie
Macworld has published online an article I wrote: Create a Time-Lapse Movie. Although you can’t fast-forward life (caffeine notwithstanding), you can speed up time in your movies with time-lapse photography. This video technique compresses hours of action into mere seconds—clouds roll overhead, the sun races toward the horizon, and flowers bloom before your eyes. Best ...
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I Finally Made CARS
No, not the Pixar movie. I’m “quoted” in an article at Crazy Apple Rumors Site: According to a report by Radar Online, Apple has decided to drop Justin Long, the actor who plays the Mac in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign. The news left the Macintosh community stunned. It then left it in denial. ...
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NYT Notes Closure of Fremont News
The New York Times ran an article today about one of my haunts: “Time for a New Tenant in the Kingdom of Odd.” The subject in question is Fremont News, a great little magazine newsstand that’s half a block from my office. I buy the occasional magazine there, but I must admit that Fremont News ...
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A Word to the House Dems
According to the latest news reports, the Democrats have taken power in the House. This is extraordinarily satisfying, because hopefully this means there’s going to be some positive force in government. But we (and here I actually mean you, House Democrats) can’t get cocky. Oh sure, we want to. The big Republican bully, the one ...
