Posted in Ideas, Social Software on Jul 30th, 2010 2 Comments »
A Must-See Video of Microsoft’s Street Slide, Better Than Google Street View Microsoft Research has come up with a fantastic way to use street view images in panoramic form, including the use of the unused screen area above and below images. Watch the video, it’s quite good. Couple this with their very useful Bing maps [...]
Posted in Movies, People on Jul 29th, 2010 No Comments »
The Age of Laura Linney This is an excellent profile piece by Frank Bruni on this under-appreciated, excellent actress. Her sleeper: You Can Count on Me is one of our favorite movies. Laura Linney at Wikipedia
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Travel, Video on Jul 26th, 2010 3 Comments »
The Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon. The idea is to replace all current petroleum-based asphalt roads, parking lots, and driveways with Solar Road Panels that collect energy to be used by our homes and businesses. Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excess energy in [...]
Posted in Photojournalism, Places on Jul 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 [...]
Posted in Photo Editing Software, Tech Stuff on Jul 25th, 2010 No Comments »
An Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings Jeffrey Friedle on how Lightroom’s JPEG settings differ from other applications that can convert RAW and TIFF images to JPEGs and how to think about evaluating each image being converted to JPEG so as to get the most compression with the least loss of image quality. This [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Quotations on Jul 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations by Josh Billings you don’t find here. More on Josh Billings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Billings. The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Jul 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
BlindType vows to autocorrect all wrongs with your iPhone or Android virtual keyboard Wow, this is an impressive system: forgiving of “fat fingers” and amazing word prediction. It looks like it won’t play nice with the iOS built in keyboard but maybe someday it will or maybe Apple will simply buy them. BlindType
Posted in Ideas, iPad, Social Software on Jul 21st, 2010 6 Comments »
Flipboard may very well be the killer app for the iPad. It’s the ultimate aggregator and content presenter for everything you track: The New York Times, Facebook, Twitter, blogs with RSS feeds, everything with a feed. Robert Scoble interviews Fliboard CEO, Mike McCue and once they get into the meat of the app it’s worth [...]
Posted in Opinion, People on Jul 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Great piece by Sandip Roy on NPR: A Uniquely Indian Perspective On Gay Marriage. Listen to it.
Posted in People, Quotations on Jul 18th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations by George Bernard Shaw you don’t find here. More on George Bernard Shaw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. [...]
Posted in iPhone, Objects on Jul 18th, 2010 11 Comments »
Let me preface this by saying I love my iPhone4 and no doubt Apple is going to give me a credit for the bumper I bought for it. The Apple USB charging cable on the left is the older one although still sold by Apple to work with iPhone4 (see blow), the Apple USB charging [...]
Posted in Adventure, Canon Powershot S90, Hiking, Ideas, People, Places on Jul 18th, 2010 5 Comments »
Bear Mountain, Salisbury, Connecticut. We met "Bloodhound" (his trail name) on the top of Bear Mountain yesterday. Since early June we’ve seen dozens of "thru-hikers" on the Appalachian Trail; hikers who are doing the entire 2175 mile Appalachian Trail hike from Georgia to Maine (map). I had a plan to take a picture of each [...]
Posted in iPhone, Opinion, Tech Stuff on Jul 16th, 2010 3 Comments »
Apple held an iPhone 4 Press Conference today and Steve Jobs showed how iPhone4 reception compares with other leading smart phones. All phones seem to lose reception when gripped tightly and regain reception when gripped loosely. I happen to agree with Jobs that this entire “antennaegate” issue is way overblown. I have absolutely no problems [...]
Posted in Animals, Cats on Jul 16th, 2010 No Comments »
My friend Gary sent me this card when our cat died. I ordered some cards and sent this card when good friends of ours lost their dog. Anne Made Cards are just the thing for animal lovers or anyone who enjoys her playful sense of design and humor. They’re well made and reasonably priced.
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photographers, Places on Jul 15th, 2010 5 Comments »
New York City from Above The Denver Post has put together a fine collection of aerial images of New York City (mostly Manhattan). Most of the images were taken by Daniel Acker for Bloomberg News but there are other photographers represented as well. This is one, fine collection.
Posted in Ideas, iPad, Macintosh on Jul 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
Digitimes reports: Apple readies 11.6-inch MacBook Air and new iPod touch. Wouldn’t it be interesting if this new version of the MacBook Air was an iPad with a folding keyboard. Run iOS and put a multi-touch screen on it and lose the trackpad and you have it. Sell it for under $1000. Better yet, allow [...]
Posted in iPhone, Opinion on Jul 14th, 2010 3 Comments »
I’ve now had an iPhone4 for a few weeks and my wife Anne has had my old iPhone 3G running OS 3.1.3 for the same few weeks. While Apple is being raked over the coals for how they’ve handled reception issues with the iPhone4 Anne and I are incredibly happy with our iPhones. I’ve had [...]
Posted in Andy Singer Cartoons, Cartoons, Humor, Opinion on Jul 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Copyright Andy Singer: www.andysinger.com How to get through a tough problem? Get started. This is an old Andy Singer illustration that seemed useful to post in these times of great frustration and cynicism.
Posted in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on Jul 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California. Not much in bloom except roses during this visit to the gardens. I’ve never been crazy about rose flowers as photographic subjects but their buds are nice and of course, varicolored rose bokeh works.
Posted in Cats, Humor, Quotations on Jul 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’ve been collecting quotations for years and figured I’d put my collections online for others to use as they wish. Enjoy these quotations, use the comment form to share any quotations about cats you don’t find here. Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you. – Mary Bly [...]
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