A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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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 ...
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New Coffee Grinder and Office Espresso Machine
After my Solis Maestro Plus grinder broke, I took it to Home Espresso Repair, a local shop that I’ve turned to in the past. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to do much with it, and I was still wary of spending $80+ to send it to Oregon for repairs. So, I decided to go ahead and ...
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AVCHD: Improved HD Format for Camcorders
This is potentially interesting: Improved HD Format for Camcorders (via Gizmodo). Current consumer HD camcorders record in HDV, which uses MPEG-2 compression to fit HD-sized video onto a MiniDV tape. You still get the large format with more overall pixels, but there’s more compression applied, leading to degraded images (the quality varies widely depending on ...
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