Take Control of iPhone Photography, 2nd Edition
The big 2nd edition of my book on how to take great photos with your iPhone is now available!
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iMac G5 or Power Mac G5 for HD?
Mike at HD For Indies takes a good look at the question: should I buy an iMac G5 for now as a lower-cost bridge before the new Intel-based Power Macs appear, or go with an existing Pwer Mac? He’s focusing on editing HD with Final Cut Pro, of course, but his points are still mostly ...
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Video iPod, iTunes 6, and New iMac G5 with Front Row
Apple added some interesting flair to their video offerings this week with the introduction of an iPod capable of playing video, iTunes 6 with support for purchasing music video and television shows from the iTunes Music Store, and the new iMac G5 with built-in iSight video camera, a remote control, and Front Row software for ...
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External Modem: It’s 1993 Again!
Part of the fine print of Apple’s announcement yesterday of the new iMac G5 is that it no longer includes a built-in modem. Instead, you can buy a USB modem for $50. So let’s recap: way back when, you’d spend $200-$300 on an external modem, a big metal box with blinky lights that let you ...
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Biking Fun, or, Clavicle Lesson
Today was exciting. While biking to work, a pickup truck turned in front of me, resulting in a bike + pickup pairing that wasn’t so good for the cyclist. Fortunately, I hit the ground in what a bystander said was a “good fall”: I hit with my shoulder and rolled, not splayed out or over ...
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RIP Torrefazione Italia Fremont
Torrefazione – 3 Originally uploaded by Jeff Carlson. The beautiful Torrefazione Italia cafe near my office closed in September. Corporate owner Starbucks decided to shutter the Italian-themed cafes and concentrate on selling beans wholesale. This is my favorite picture of the ones I took a week or so before it closed. The baristas working there ...
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Serenity
Kim and I saw one of our most-anticipated movies on Friday: Serenity, the big-screen version (or BDM – Big Damn Movie, for those familiar with it) of Joss Whedon’s television show Firefly. Honestly, I loved it. It puts the last three Star Wars movies to shame, because it dares to have a good script with ...
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Shining: Wonderful Re-editing
Making editing available to the masses has its humorous effects. Someone took scenes from Stanley Kubrick‘s scary thriller The Shining, and edited them into a trailer for what looks like a heartwarming comedy called Shining (9.5 MB QuickTime movie file). Update: The New York Times wrote an article about it here.
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Criminals
I quote Digby for an excellent roundup of the current state of our government: So, we have a federal probe implicating the president’s number one political advisor and the vice president’s chief of staff in the violation of laws protecting CIA agents and possibly lying to federal investigators. We have a multi-pronged investigation into a ...
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Brown’s Soft Landing
When “Brownie” resigned as head of FEMA, I remarked to several friends that it wouldn’t be long before he was hired as a consultant for some other Bush-friendly firm or organization. But even I didn’t think that would be… FEMA: Daily Kos: Guess Who’s a New FEMA Consultant. CBS News correspondent Gloria Borger reports that ...
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Cafexperiment.com
Someone posted a comment on this page of my Flickr photo collection that I should check out www.cafexperiment.com. So I did. Wow! I’m in coffee-photo-heaven. I’ve sent my photo to them for posting.
Jeff Carlson | Never Enough Coffee Creations 