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!
The big 2nd edition of my book on how to take great photos with your iPhone is now available!
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The new edition of my essential guide to Apple Watch is now out, with a bunch of new material.
I spent the weekend photographing areas of Seattle using two of the top Android camera phones for a new CNET article.
Again, why do I use a Mac? Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes. Look, this isn’t a “my computer is better than your computer” issue anymore… if you value your data or security at all (and you should!), the insecurity of Windows is just unacceptable.
Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times: RealNetworks Plans to Sell Songs to Be Played on iPods. What’s interesting is that a key piece of information isn’t being reported, but the PR spin clearly is. The article states: Tomorrow, without Apple’s authorization, RealNetworks will start to give away software that will allow people ...
<img src="http://www.jeffcarlson.com/blog/images/spl_sm.jpg" width="125" height="94" border="0" hspace="3" alt=" Seattle Public Library” align=”right”>I’m spending the morning in downtown Seattle, so I’ve claimed a desk at the new Seattle Public Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas. It’s a great structure, even if it’s a little out of place downtown – but that makes it more appealing to me, frankly. ...
A tripod is an invaluable aid when shooting, but sometimes a real pain to carry around. Enter the Bottle Cap Tripod for Digital Camera from Japan, a gizmo that lets you mount a camera on a water or soda bottle with 28.5 to 20.5 mm diameter.
If you thought that carrying a PowerBook gave you the ability to edit on location, check out Geek My Ride, a Final Cut editing system built into a Lexus IS300. This concept car at Macworld Expo in Boston was put to the test by five editors, who were given 90 minutes in the hot seat, ...
I don’t know why I haven’t run across this before, but if you’re looking for a resource to help you choose which kind of camcorder to buy, check out Camcorderinfo.com.
When I was on vacation a couple years ago, I spied an older gentleman walking around with a Canon XL1. Although he may have been a more experienced shooter, I got the impression that the $3,500 camera was just his tourist gear: I envisioned this man as a wealthy executive telling his secretary to buy ...
iMovieFest.com, an “exclusive film community for Mac filmmakers,” has just gone live. You’ll find a number of tips from my book there (added on a regular basis), along with advice, movies, and community discussions of iMovie and related topics.
Janet writes: Jeff, I’m new at iMovie (version 4.0.01), and I sure do hope you can solve this mystery so I can complete a project. Here’s the situation. I’ve imported 4 DV’s, each to its own project, and now that I’ve edited each one I’m ready to import them all into a master project. But ...