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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My Seattle Times column on Apple-Intel
My Practical Mac column in the Seattle Times today takes an overview look at Apple’s decision to shift to Intel processors: What’s in store for Macs with Intel processor inside.
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My Seattle Times column on Apple-Intel
My Practical Mac column in the Seattle Times today takes an overview look at Apple’s decision to shift to Intel processors: What’s in store for Macs with Intel processor inside.
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Shooting Underwater
So you want to shoot the next great underwater shark/disaster/alien movie? Here are some tips for doing it without throwing several hundred dollars out to sea: Shooting Underwater (from the LA Final Cut Pro User Group).
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Apple Moving to Intel
Today’s big news was that Apple will be moving the Macintosh to Intel processors, a sea change for people who’ve been following the Mac. It’s exciting, interesting stuff, and I’ll be closely watching to see how they migrate digital video editing (a very processor-intensive task) to a new processor family. I’m slightly wary after having ...
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Campus MovieFest Concludes
What are students shooting? The wide-rangingCampus MovieFest recently wrapped up, and you can view nearly 1,000 movies online.
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Murderball and Walter Reed Hospital
For my birthday on Monday, my wife took me to see Murderball, an excellent documentary about the sport of wheelchair rugby and the men who play it. The gist of the sport is that paraplegics and quadriplegics compete to move a ball down a basketball court and through a goal. They zoom around on heavily-modified ...
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I’m an Uncle!
Please welcome Emma Victoria Johnson to the world, as of 11:40 this morning. 9 pounds, 1 ounce, everyone healthy.
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iMovie HD/iDVD 5 VQS Now Available!
My author copies arrived last week, which means that iMovie HD & iDVD 5 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is now officially available! (As of the afternoon of May 29, Amazon still lists it as not yet shipping, but when I get my copies it’s usually just a few days before the title hits Amazon ...
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Sony HDR-HC1 Web Site
From the comments, Simon points to http://www.videogear.co.uk/, a site devoted to Sony’s new smaller-sized HDV camcorder.
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Saw the Sith
I finally got around to seeing Star Wars Episode III yesterday, and… I liked it. Seriously. It was a good, solid ending to the first trilogy, especially since the first two were less than… aw heck, they blew. One reason Ep3 was better, my wife and I agreed, is that it’s not encumbered by dialog. ...
