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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Ice Crystals on the Shore
(Best viewed bigger.) There’s always guilt. You come home after shooting a bunch of photos and the queue is intimidating. During the Oregon Wonders Photography Workshop in October, I added 3,100 photos to my library. And when I got back, I had to jump immediately into three concurrent projects. Even though I follow my own ...
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Macworld Reviews iPhoto 2.0 for iOS
Macworld’s Jackie Dove has published her review of iPhoto 2.0 for iOS, the new version of Apple’s mobile photo editor for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. She likes it quite a bit, writing: iPhoto 2.0 for iOS is a fantastic upgrade to Apple’s mobile consumer image editing flagship program; its streamlined, updated interface is a ...
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Macworld Reviews iMovie 10
Serenity Caldwell reviewed the new iMovie 10 for Macworld: iMovie 10 review: a lot to like, a few quibbles. As a longtime iMovie user (and author of several books and articles about it), here’s one line that particularly stood out: The app’s fast enough now that it doesn’t need you to downscale your HD clips ...
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OS X Mavericks Mail and Gmail
[Update, November 7, 2013: Apple has released an update for Mail that sounds like it fixes a lot of problems. Open the App Store and click the Updates button to get it.] In the last 24 hours I’ve heard from several friends complaining about problems with the Mail application under OS X Mavericks not playing ...
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Google Updates Snapseed with New HDR Scape Filter
Google announced improvements to its Google+ service today, with a focus on photography. One of the items mentioned was an update to Snapseed that adds a new HDR Scope filter to the versatile image editor. According to Google, this implementation uses pixel edge detection instead of relying solely on tone mapping. As soon as the ...
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Mysterious Mac Pro Posters
By far the most unusual thing to happen today was the surprise arrival of a package from Apple. A narrow rectangular box revealed a precisely-made tube containing four promotional posters for the company’s upcoming Mac Pro computer, plus a similar-sized sheet containing a paragraph of text. Apple does this occasionally when they want to drum ...
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New iMovie Doesn’t Open iMovie iOS Projects
Serenity Caldwell at Macworld digs into a curious omission in the new iMovie 10.0 for Mac: It no longer opens projects created on the iOS version of iMovie (which itself was also updated last week). She talked to someone at Apple who confirmed that the feature will return in a future update. Also, iMovie won’t ...
