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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New Articles: Lightroom mobile 1.1 and Adobe Photoshop Mix
Coinciding with the latest announcements from Adobe, two articles of mine were published this morning. Lightroom mobile 1.1 For my first article at Lynda.com, I looked at Lightroom mobile 1.1. On the surface it appears to be an incremental update that delivers iPhone compatibility (which Adobe promised was coming when Lightroom mobile came out in ...
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Everything Wrong with Tech Reporting in One Paragraph
At a family gathering for Father’s Day, my sister asked, “So what’s wrong with Apple?” Puzzled, I asked her to clarify, and she mentioned the occasional snarky tweet I post making fun of Apple analysts, like this one referring to last week’s 7-for-1 stock split: @jeffcarlson: Please please tell me someone wrote an article about ...
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New Article: Kinsgston MobileLite Wireless Review
Is the storage on your iPad or iPhone filling up? At Macworld, I reviewed the Kingston MobileLite Wireless, a small device that stores media files on SD or micro SD cards and streams them via Wi-Fi to any iOS device. It can also charge your iPhone in a pinch! Read all about it: Kingston MobileLite ...
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New Article: Kinsgston MobileLite Wireless Review
Is the storage on your iPad or iPhone filling up? At Macworld, I reviewed the Kingston MobileLite Wireless, a small device that stores media files on SD or micro SD cards and streams them via Wi-Fi to any iOS device. It can also charge your iPhone in a pinch! Read all about it: Kingston MobileLite ...
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Bard Rescue
Sprung from the castle’s jail, the Bard leaves with his rescuers. But are they as friendly as they let on? This is a photo from my latest book, in a chapter about making stop-motion animations. It was 2 am and I felt like being creative. If you like the work I do, please consider signing ...
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Photographers and Fort Builders
Photographers make good use of equipment. A light stand makes a great central post for a living room fort. (It has a smaller footprint than a tripod.) I recommend all parents take up photography!
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Apply Styles from the Keyboard in InDesign
A quick, in-the-weeds-of-book-production post: I’m an oddity among book authors in that most of my books are written directly into layout. Most people write a manuscript in Microsoft Word or Scrivener or some other word processor, then hand it off to design and production folks who lay it out with styles and artwork in an ...
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Devil-on-the-Shoulder Look at the WWDC 2014 Keynote
[Updated in places thanks to feedback from readers, and a fresh round of caffeine since I wrote this post late last night.] I almost titled this post “The Pessimist’s Look at WWDC,” but I’m not a pessimist. I think most of what was announced by Apple at the Worldwide Developer Conference keynote is exciting and ...
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GarageBand Jammin’
My pal Jeff Tolbert jamming with GarageBand on the iPad as amp. Part of a photo shoot for my next book. If you like the work I do, please consider signing up for my low-volume newsletter that I use to announce new projects, items, and giveaways that I think my readers would be interested in.
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Slingshot in My Latest Seattle Times Column
In my latest Seattle Times column, I write about Slingshot, an application and service that makes videoconferencing a bit more interesting by adding the capability to share the screen of an iPhone or iPad during a call: Search is over: Slingshot is the way to go for videoconferencing I can see how small groups, startups, ...
