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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Imprisoning Journalists
This is simultaneously chilling and yet not surprising: The administration’s assault on a free and vital press took a huge leap forward this weekend, when Attorney General Alberto Gonazles announced on national television that the Bush administration has the power to imprison journalists who publish stories revealing conduct by the President which the administration wants ...
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Schneier on Security: The Value of Privacy
Security expert Bruce Schneier puts it best: The Value of Privacy Last week, revelation of yet another NSA surveillance effort against the American people has rekindled the privacy debate. Those in favor of these programs have trotted out the same rhetorical question we hear every time privacy advocates oppose ID checks, video cameras, massive databases, ...
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14 Hours of Student Flms
Want to learn about what makes good filmmaking? Be a screener for a festival: Self-Reliant Filmmaking » 14 hours of student films. The students making the selections want to be filmmakers themselves, and I think they probably learned as much about filmmaking from those 14 hours as they did from any single course they’ve taken. ...
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My Photo Is in a Gallery!
Glory Hole, Lake Berryessa Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. A couple of months ago, my pro photographer friend Laurence Chen encouraged me to submit this photo to the Environmental Photography Invitational, a photo contest open to residents of the Pacific Northwest. To my great surprise and delight, it was selected as a winning photo! It ...
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Final Cut Express HD 3.5 Goes Universal
[Cross-posted at TidBITS.] Apple today released Final Cut Express HD 3.5, an update that brings Intel compatibility and a few welcome improvements to the company’s intermediate video editor. Until recently, the Final Cut family wouldn’t run at all on Intel-based Macs; Apple released Final Cut Studio 5.1 in April, which includes universal versions of Final ...
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Bought a MacBook
As I mentioned yesterday, the new MacBook looked pretty appealing in the Carlson household, as a replacement for a 4-year-old iBook. After talking it over with my wife—who will use the computer most of the time—we drove to the University Village Apple Store and bought a 1.83 GHz stock model. This was the first time ...
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My Officemate Kim in the NYTimes
My officemate Kim Ricketts is featured in a big New York Times article today: Authors Meet Fans Far From Bookstores, at Company Events. Kim puts together author events, public and private, where writers on book tours give readings and talks. I’ve been to a few, and it’s a great way to touch base with your ...
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MacBooks Debut, Drool Erupts
Apple today announced the 13-inch MacBook, the Intel-powered replacement for the iBook. As rumored, it also comes in black (which, naturally, is only offered at a higher price). I’ll let my TidBITS colleague Mark Anbinder nail the details: Like its 15-inch and 17-inch counterparts, the new MacBook features an Intel Core Duo processor, here at ...
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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 ...
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QuickTime 7.1
Apple released QuickTime 7.1 last week, accompanying it with their now-typical brief release notes. Allow me to republish them here in their entirety: QuickTime 7.1 is an important release that delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife ’06, and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users. However, there seems ...
