Posted in Adventure, Our Place on Oct 31st, 2011 7 Comments »
My apologies for lack of posts or attention to this web site. The storm that hit the east coast killed our power and we may be without power for as much as a week more. It sucks. But, we have a wood stove and we’re warm. Many trees down at our place, a huge amount [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Opinion, Reading, Tools on Oct 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
Informal e-reader library comparison Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) has done a very nice comparison of the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks on the iPad. He’s comparing availability of content (books and periodicals) less usability of the various tools. By the way, Instapaper on the iPad is an incredible way to read articles that you’ve [...]
Posted in Collections, iPhone Photography, People, Photo Sites, Social Software on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
1000memories A free social site for organizing old family photographs and building relationships between them. It even has a family tree/genealogy component that allows you to build familial relationships into the stored images. There’s an iPhone app called ShoeBox for scanning/photographing and organizing content for 1000memories. This actually looks pretty good and I might give [...]
Posted in Objects, Photography, Video on Oct 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Booths & Bodies: The life and work of Anthony Vizzari from Philip Bloom on Vimeo. A wonderful documentary by Phillip Bloom on Anthony Vizzari who collects vintage cameras and vintage photo booths. [via Devour]
Posted in Creativity, People, Places, Process, Video on Oct 26th, 2011 6 Comments »
Stuart King made this video of a street artisan in Marrakech, Morocco using a bow lathe to turn chess pieces. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Cloud Computing, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software on Oct 26th, 2011 8 Comments »
Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync Brent Simmons has written an excellent piece on proposed changes to Google Reader and how they might affect clients like Reeder which piggy back off it. I use Google Reader to catalog and organize my various RSS feeds and have been since I dropped NetNewsWire (which Brent [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photography, Politics on Oct 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Money Faces I saw the Colossal post first, then followed it to Visual News: Show me your Money Face!, then followed it to The 99% Behind the Money. Great and fun meme that has been around long before the Occupy Wall Street Movement started although I certainly get why folks in that movement would want [...]
Posted in Collections, Photographers, Social Software on Oct 22nd, 2011 2 Comments »
Flickr user Ewald Mario Bauer has assembled a number of flickr galleries which are collections of images that others have taken and allowed to be included in the galleries of other flickr members. Ewald Mario Bauer’s Flickr Galleries Note the page numbering on the bottom, there are 14 pages of them. Frankly, I never looked [...]
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Ask Different Ask Different is a brilliantly built discussion site that allows people to ask questions about their Apple products and get a variety of answers and tips from others. I first heard about it back here and I decided to subscribe to its RSS feed for a while to see what kinds of questions [...]
Posted in iPhone, Photo Resources on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
B&H Photo has a free iPhone app that’s quite good and if nothing else allows you to check out your wish list(s) while browsing around the store, instead of printing them out as I usually do. Tip: consider making wish lists of things you buy often, like ink and paper for for your printer. That [...]
Posted in Flowers, Time Lapse, Video on Oct 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Life of flowers from VOROBYOFF PRODUCTION on Vimeo. Excellent flower time lapse work by Vorobyoff Production. I’m not crazy about photographing roses but they come off quite well in this piece. Zoom full screen so you can see the details. [via wimp.com]
Posted in iPhone Photography, My mother on Oct 21st, 2011 6 Comments »
Not too bad for a quik iPhone shot of my mother out at dinner tonight. It’s not a 5D/135mm f/2 L portrait but it’s quite good to my eye.
Posted in Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM, Canon EOS 5D, Flowers, Places on Oct 21st, 2011 2 Comments »
Los Angeles, California. The last few times we’ve been to the Getty Center the Robert Irwin garden has been closed for renovation. My mother enjoys wheeling through it; it’s tight but that’s good for her since she can’t see well and the tightness gets her closer to the flowers. I can’t remember what this one [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, Places on Oct 20th, 2011 3 Comments »
I was looking forward to photographing the lights in the tunnel connecting United’s terminal B and C in Chicago. I used to fly through there weekly but haven’t flown through in years now since I fly from JFK to LAX. This trip I decided to try doing it in two legs: Hartford to Chicago, Chicago [...]
Posted in Audio, iPad, Stories on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
The excellent radio show This American Life is available as an excellent iPad app for browsing and listening to shows both online and off: This American Life iPad app.
Posted in Ideas, Video on Oct 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
Revolutionary Oil Skimmer Nets $1 Million X Prize Jacob McCleland at NPR has a great story this morning. A breakthrough in oil cleanup technology allows crews to skim spilled oil off the water’s surface at a much faster rate. The new device wasn’t developed by Exxon, BP or any of the major oil companies — [...]
Posted in Gadgets, iPhone, Tech Stuff on Oct 19th, 2011 2 Comments »
Google announces NFC-based Android Beam for sharing between phones Watch the video, it’s very cool. Since the old days of Palm Pilots I’ve wanted a way to beam a single address to a nearby iPhone, or, any single piece of data that I want to share. The Palm had IR for this and the iPhone [...]
Posted in Ideas, Video on Oct 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Great collection of narrated animations of a variety of physics concepts. [via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh on Oct 17th, 2011 6 Comments »
I just read on Shawn Blanc’s site about a new field in iOS 5′s Contacts app for adding a phonetic pronunciation of a name so that Siri gets it right. That same field is in the Address Book in Mac OS 10.7.2 so you can add those phonetic equivalents for your iPhone 4S and Siri [...]
Posted in Birds, Canon PowerShot S95, Trees on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Macedonia Brook State Park, Kent, Connecticut. Dave and I were hiking the other day and I spotted some unusual bark on a tree. On closer inspection the bark was riddled with woodpecker holes up and down the entire tree. The bird is a yellow-bellied sapsucker and it really likes this tree. As you’ll see in [...]
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