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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CaffeDerm at ThinkGeek
OMG, I must have this! ThinkGeek :: CaffeDerm “So drop that Dew, put down that Jolt catheter, and grab hold of our newly patented CaffeDerm® caffeine patches – they easily apply to your shoulder and provide a steady dose of caffeine throughout the day. These calorie-free fixes are just enough to keep you from ripping ...
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iChat AV 2.2 Public Beta is Out!
Hot on the heels of iChat AV 2.1: iChat AV 2.2 Public Beta Adds MSN Support. [Be sure to read the rest of the April 1, 2004 issue of TidBITS, too!]
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I Review iMovie 4, iDVD 4 for Macworld
Macworld Magazine has posted their review of iLife ’04, which includes reviews I wrote about iMovie 4 and iDVD 4. Check ’em out, and tell me if you agree or disagree with my conclusions.
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PluginPal
The field of iMovie plug-ins continues to be more robust than I would have imagined a few years ago. Now that a lot of plug-ins are available, BKMS has released PluginPal, a separate application that lets you activate or deactivate plug-ins for titles, transitions, and effects.
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Secondhand on a Plane
I’m in Phoenix this weekend, where my wife is attending a work function. She and I arrived by car after traveling throughout Arizona during the week, but we heard a funny bit of conversation from one of her co-workers. President Bush was in Phoenix briefly yesterday, and so Kim’s co-worker’s plane was forced to circle ...
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Today’s Required Reading
Gitmo’ Better Blues – The folly of the new Guantanamo trials. By Neal Katyal (Slate.com). This is my fear, one that seems all too likely to happen: at some point in the future, probably the near future, it will come out that the military detentions at Guantanamo Bay, the ones controlled by the President and ...
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In Vegas
I’m in Las Vegas on a quasi vacation while my wife has business here. We’re staying at the Venetian, which is probably best described as Disneyland for those who wish to part with their money. (Not that Disneyland is a cheap day, but this is a different scale.) Yes, there are canals (much smaller than ...
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iMovie 4 Tip: Exporting Selected Audio Clips
My colleague Glenn and I discovered an interesting iMovie 4 tip today. He needed to edit a short bit of audio that he had captured on his iPod (using a Belkin voice recorder), so we pulled it into iMovie to take advantage of the new audio track waveforms. After isolating the section of audio he ...
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Non-Productive Tip of the Day: Jamming on the Snapping Sound
When you use iMovie 4’s Timeline snapping feature, the program makes a little “pop” noise to indicate that the Playhead has snapped to an edit point. But let’s just say that you’re tired of that unobtrusive pop. That sound is just an AIFF audio file. So, just to see if I could use my own ...
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A Couple of Audio Editing Tips
I’m working on the Audio Editing chapter of the iMovie 4 book, and, because I need a break from looking at pages in InDesign, thought I’d post a couple cool new things. With an audio clip selected, do one of the following: Position the Playhead in the middle of the clip and press the right ...
