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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iWeb Article in Seattle Times
My latest Practical Mac column for the Seattle Times looks at iWeb: Apple’s Web effort perfect for some. In it, I point to a a site I built in iWeb that includes a short video I edited in iMovie, scored using GarageBand, and uploaded as a podcast via iWeb. It was a pretty slick and ...
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CinemaTech: Tips on South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival
Thinking of attending the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) film festival this year? Scott Kirsner snagged some great advice on attending and submitting films from one of the festival organizers, Jarod Neece: CinemaTech: Tips on South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival.
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First Look: iMovie HD 6
I wrote a first-look article for Macworld Magazine about iMovie, which is now online: Macworld: News: First Look: iMovie HD 6.
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Coffee Grinders in NYT
Article about buying coffee grinders appears in the New York Times, with special mention from Coffeegeek.com head honcho Mark Prince: Establishing Some Ground Rules – New York Times. “I’ve had terrible, cheap grinders in the past,” I said. “They all broke and now we buy ground beans.” I heard a sharp intake of breath. “Never ...
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Subscribe to My Photocast
Part of the new features in iLife ’06 is photocasting, an easy way to share photos online from iPhoto 6. I’ve created a Jeff’s Pretty Photos photocast at http://photocast.mac.com/jeffc/iPhoto/jeff’s-pretty-photos/index.rss. If you own iPhoto 6, this should come up in the program itself; if not, you can view it using an RSS reader. However, it appears ...
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Flip4Mac Causing iMovie HD 6 Problems
If you recently installed Flip4Mac, a utility that lets you play Windows media files within QuickTime, and you’re running into problems with iMovie HD 6 or QuickTime 7.0.4, uninstall Flip4Mac. I’ve exchanged email with at least one person who was hit by the incompatibility, and there are other reports at Apple’s Support Discussions about iMovie ...
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DV Auteurs at Sundance
Wired News has a story about a few DV movie directors who are exhibiting at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival: Wired News: Whither the DIY Auteurs of DV?. While Moonshine has yet to be screened for the media or audiences — Ingraham was still fine-tuning the movie a week before its premiere — it already ...
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Basic iLife ’06 Update Advice
People are starting to get their copies of iLife ’06, so now is a good time to pass along one of the best pieces of upgrade advice I can give: Before upgrading, rename your existing iLife applications. The installer looks for “iMovie HD”, for example, and will upgrade that copy. If you want to revert ...
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A Heap of Editing Advice
Robert Hogan passes along some great editing advice as he works on his film Los Tres Cabrones: Make the hard sacrifices to keep it short. Just because a scene is pretty doesn’t mean you should spend five minutes on a scene that could achieve the same impact in two minutes. If your shot contains action ...
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From Extreme to Extreme
Crowded Apple booth Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. Macworld Expo is now over, and I have the stack of business cards, brochures, and a wee bit of swag to show for it. My favorite giveaway was a Google Earth notepad, which has one of those images that change depending on the angle you view it ...
