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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DVDxDV Takes DVD to iMovie
Macworld’s Chris Breen points to DVDxDV, a utility for extracting video from an unprotected DVD (such as one you’ve made in iDVD) and importing it into iMovie: Mac 911 Weblog: DVD to iMovie. You’ll take a quality hit because the video on the DVD has been encoded using MPEG2 compression, but if the DVD is ...
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Cool Lightning Photo
Marc Laidlaw has a photo from the same lightning storm that I watched, only his is better than my video: he snapped his picture just as a bolt of lightning struck a tree in his yard! Great picture.
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Late-Night Lightshow
I was about to go to bed late last night when the living room briefly filled with white light. Although the weather has been incredible, a thunderstorm rolled in and treated us to a late-night lightning storm. This is fairly rare in Seattle, so I grabbed my video camera and sat outside on the deck ...
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Combine iMovie Projects Using a Text Editor
A while back I wrote a piece for Macworld about how to combine iMovie projects… using a text editor! The final piece had to be edited down quite a bit for space, but I’ve put the original article online (which is referenced in the book) for anyone who needs to split a project into discreet ...
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New Power Mac G5s
In case you didn’t see the news yesterday: Dual-Processor, Liquid-Cooled Power Mac G5s Announced (TidBITS). Speedy and quieter than current Mac towers? Sounds pretty good to me.
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New Canon DV Camcorders
Canon announced today two new compact DV camcorders: the Optura 500 and Optura 400. Tiny, attractive, and packed with megapixel goodness. The Optura 400 will sell for $1,000 and the Optura 500 will go for $1,200. Both feature 2.2 megapixel CCDs; the Optura 500 also sports a high-resolution 2.5 inch LCD, MPEG4 support, and USB ...
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Okay, a Positive Movie Review
My wife was working late last night, so I stuck around at the office and watched Changing Lanes, a taut film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck (after seeing Paycheck, I wanted reassurance that Ben can do better with good material). The movie was very well directed, expertly acted, and kept me on the ...
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Never Mind John Woo: Stop Stephen Sommers!
Some friends and I were going to catch a sneak preview of the disaster flick Day After Tomorrow, but we got there too late and the theater filled up. Still in the mood to see a movie, we instead saw this enormous pile of stinking shit: Van Helsing. Seriously, Paycheck was so much better than ...
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Someone Tell John Woo He Can’t Make Any More Movies
Just finished watching Paycheck, unfortunately. I knew it wasn’t going to be good, based on the reviews, but still: sci-fi, Philip K. Dick story, heck, I don’t even mind Ben Affleck. And actually, those elements (and Paul Giamatti!) were the good parts. The bad part was the director. I’ve never seen any of John Woo’s ...
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NYTimes on Distributing Home DVDs
The New York Times today published an article about how some people are taking advantage of home DVD-creation technology to put out discs of niche subjects, such as high school football seasons and independent features: Technology > Circuits > In the Era of Cheap DVD’s, Anyone Can Be a Producer” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20dvdd.html?8dpc”> In the Era of ...
