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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New Coffeehouse Worth Mentioning
I’m working on three articles today, so I decided to get out of the house and absorb some coffeehouse atmosphere while I worked. Normally, I’d stick to one of my favorites, but today I took a drive to the University district to check out the new UZ (University Zoka), a few blocks north of University ...
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iMovie 4 Tip: Snapping
I’m writing a review of iMovie 4, and making all sorts of notes. Here’s a quick tip: iMovie 4 features Timeline Snapping, which snaps the playhead to the nearest edit point with a little “snick” sound. You could enable this feature in iMovie’s preferences, but don’t bother. Instead, just hold Shift as you drag the ...
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iChat 2.1 beta
Apple has released a public beta of iChat 2.1, which makes it possible to engage in video and audio chats with Windows users running AIM 5.5. (Of course, I don’t know anyone using Windows and a Web cam, so I haven’t been able to test it yet.) iChat 2.1b also introduces a strange limitation: if ...
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Why Apple Stores Are Working
I’m writing about Final Cut Express 2 and ran into a problem importing footage from my camcorder. However, I couldn’t tell if the problem was caused by my equipment (a Canon ZR20 and PowerBook G4) or the software, and I don’t have another camera available to test. What to do? I headed down to my ...
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Fearsomely Effective
As a writer, I appreciate a good turn of phrase, and I’ve found a gem this week written by Rupert Goodwin in a ZDNet UK Diary where Rupert talks about using a webcam on a Wi-Fi train trip from London to Scotland: The four and a half hour journey slips by in a caffeinated haze: ...
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iChat Location Setter
Jason Snell at Macworld magazine wrote a clever AppleScript script for setting iChat’s status to reflect where he (or more specifically, his PowerBook) is located: iChat Knows Where I Am. [I know, this isn’t necessarily iMovie related, but I’ve been covering a gamut of topics over the past year, including my latest book iChat AV ...
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Oscars and LotR
The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning, with 11 nods going to Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, 10 to Master and Commander, and zero to Nicole Kidman. Pleasant surprises: Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider, and Bill Murray for Lost in Translation. I imagine that LotR will take Best Picture, though I ...
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iMovie Default Export Settings
Apple has released a Knowledge Base article that details the default iMovie export option defaults.
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More on iMovie-Edited Tarnation
Wired News ran a story about Tarnation, Jonathan Caouette’s iMovie-edited film now playing at Sundance: Here’s the Price of Fame: $218.32. Filmmaker Gus van Sant, who has signed on as an executive producer, is quoted as saying: “People assumed that one day film would be as accessible and inexpensive as writing, and now it practically ...
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Aloneliness in SF
I’m in San Francisco for the week following Macworld Expo while my wife attends a business event thrown by her company. It didn’t make sense for me to fly back to Seattle when she was coming down here, so we hooked up and now I’m the Hotel Husband while she goes off to work. Nonetheless, ...
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