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Sport Game Demos
Sports – Reviews and free downloads at Download.com. Calvin loves sports games. Here is the place to get demo versions so he can figure out.
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Bike Light Guide
Mountain Biking Product Spotlight: MTBR Lights Shine-Off. For years I’ve recommended the Light & Motion HID lights. They are super bright, but the big drawback has been they don’t run that long, so aren’t that useful for more than a relatively short bike commute (2 hours at most) and they are heavy at over two…
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Canon Digital Workflow
I now see why folks are building tools like Aperture. Actually processing a digital image really well is very complicated. The workflow for 35mm negatives to digital I kind of get now (Vuescan to Photoshop), but there is a whole new world if really want the highest quality output. The main thing is that if…
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Good overview of Canon Speedlites
Canon Speedlites compared – 580EX, 430EX, 420EX, 220EX, 380EX, 550EX. _The net is that the 420EX was just $180 new vs. the new 430EX at $250 and is just about the same, so get it used on ebay. If I was a typical amateur photographer who was looking for a new speedlite to go with…
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Sony Cyber-shot vs. Digital Rebel vs. Fujifilm F11 Size and Weights
So what are the dimensions and weights of the recommended cameras, its interesting to see the tradeoffs, as you can see the Sony Cyber-shot is really in the middle so very convenient for travel. It weights less than a pound, while the whole kits for the Digital Rebel is 1.1kg (more than 2.5 pounds) or…
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Performancing is a great idea but buggy on Firefox
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More Web 2.0 sites
OK, as I promised I’m signing up to more web 2.0 sites. These are just from trying to find photo imaging sites: * “ShoZu”:http://shozu.com. This is one of a zillion sites that let you connect your phone to a photoblog on the web. Their big thing is a link to flickr which promotes it.* “Fotki”:http://fotki.com.…
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Polar s720i Battery Change
Polar S720i Heart Rate Monitors . I’ve had one of these for quite a while and the battery if finally dead. Got two years out of though. Fortunately you don’t have to send back to Polar, but you do get an additional year warranty if you do: Battery life is estimated at 1.5 years on…
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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5 and Camera Buyers Guide
“DCViews”:http://www.dcviews.com/_Sony/h5.htm. Well, the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5 is probably the closest thing to the right small camera with big quality compromise. The key thing is that it can shoot decently at ISO 400 so is good for low light situations. Read the reviews, but with 12x optical zoom, 3″ LCD viewer, less than 15 ounce weight,…
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Free Photo Storage
“About”:http://freebies.about.com/cs/digphotostorage/ and also google:”photo storage”.The gold old days of the web are back, now there are literally dozens of sites that will let you store your photos for free on the web and the amount of storage is unbelievable. About has a good list to start with, but here are some reviews of the better…
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Photo Histogram
!>http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/images/thumbnails/histogram.gif! “Photoblog”:http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/tips/histogram_tips.php. These things appear everywhere, but what are they exactly. Photoblog has a good definition cribbed Photoxels: bq. The histogram is simply a graph that allows you to judge the brightness of an image. You can think of the area under the graph as comprising all the pixels in your captured digital image. The…
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Canon i9900 Gamut
With all this discussion of gamuts, I wonder how you should actually print to my trusty Canon i9900. The results are pretty interesting: * With the very best paper, the Canon Pro Glossy, sRGB is really too small, it can print way beyond it * Even with Adobe RGB gamut, there are many more colors…
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Canon Digital Rebel XT Gamut
For grins, Dry Creek Photo also has gamut information on the sensors in Canon cameras. They don’t have the 5D, but they do have the 1Ds Mark II and the Canon 20D. The Canon 20D is the same sensor as the digital rebel and running this shows that it is a good match for Adobe…
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Adobe RGB vs. ProPhoto RGB
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Spyder2Pro Updates
“ColorVision”:http://secure.colorvision.com/sup_dl-upgrades.shtml I’ve been using the Spyder2Pro for a while now and didn’t realize that they had updated the calibration software. Makes me wish I had got PrintFix as well to do printer calibration. Oh well, always more to do.
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Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400: Long-term Review
Shutterbug: Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400. Two years ago, I bought the then brand new 5400. It had a resolution advantage then over the Nikon 4000 and since then the technology has plateaued. Most film has about 4000 dpi and I’ve actually found that for most photos, 2700 dpi is just fine unless you are…
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Magazine Subscriptions
So how much on the Internet can you save if you want to subscribe to a magazine. Here’s one journey (and test) to get the lowest price on _The Atlantic_ * “eHow”:http://www.ehow.com/how_109077_deal-magazine-subscription.html recommends going to the publishers site directly. For the “Atlantic”:https://ssl.theatlantic.com/sub/17580/IPC0506H, this is $2.45 per copy or $24.50. They do have an “educational”:http://www.theatlantic.com/a/eduorder.mhtml discount…
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB
Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive (Seagate-ST3750640AS) – PriceGrabber.com. Just installed this on our server. Wow, it is amazing density. Also, the prices are dropping. Last week it was $477 and this week it is $439. Expensive, but it is hard to get that much density in any one drive.
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Nexus 120mm Real Silent Case Fan
Nexus 120mm Real Silent Case Fan. Well, the temperatures for the hard disks in our main server seem high, so the price of these really great Nexus fans has fallen from $16 to just $12.50, so time to get a bunch. Nexus does it again with the quietest 120mm case fan available anywhere! The Nexus…
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Vast structured search
Vast – Search for Jobs in the United States. A kind of cool idea. Add structure to your searches, so it isn’t just full text, but you look for things like jobs, cars and personals. Bill Burnham mentioned it in his blog.
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StyleCatcher finally working
Blog Administration: Fixing Movable Type StyleCatcher. It has taken me a year to get this finally working. Turns out the README for StyleCatcher isn’t complete. You also have to change some parameters in the settings, it picks up the wrong real path and web path defaults for my installation. The StyleCatcher 1.01 README.txt file says…
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Maxtor Warranties and Backup Now!
Maxtor.com – Warranty Services. Don’t get caught like me. One of our three brand new Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB hard drives just failed. I suspect it is the luck of the draw plus maybe the fact that we defragged it quite a bit and maybe the heat, but in any case, make sure to backup…
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High-def Camcorders: Sony HDR-HC3 or HDR-HC1
“Camcorderinfo”:http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HDR-HC3-Camcorder-Review.htm highlights the new HC3 and says ironically the older “HDR-HC1”:http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HCR-HC1-Review.htm is a better unit for prosumers because. See the “Sony HDV Info”:http://sonyhdvinfo.com/ and “intechspot”:http://intechspot.blogspot.com/2006/03/sony-hdr-hc3-review.html for more data, but the “HC1”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Sony_Handycam_HDR_HC1_Mini_DV_Digital_Camcorder,__9108731/sort_type=bottomline is about $1350 and still available while the “HC3”:http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Sony_Handycam_HDR_HC3_Mini_DV_Digital_Camcorder,__9108731/sort_type=bottomline is about $1250 right now: * The HC1 is less sharpened, you also need to…
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Camcorder Buying Guide: Sony DCR-SR100
Well that Panasonic VDR-D300 never did show up, something wrong with my credit card information or something. So, time for another look at the camcorders before Vfinally getting one quick for the summer. I really need two of them. An idiot proof one that is good for Connie and the kids. The DVD camcorders are…
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Best Notebooks in the Sony TX Series
SonyStyle.com | TX Series. Shawn was asking me, what notebook to get, I’ve been in favor of the ultralight Sonys because I generally don’t need the speed of the Intel Core Duo and most importantly the weight. These models use a very low power Pentium M, but the result is that they get unbelievable battery…
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Intel Core Duo 2
Intel reveals roadmap details, aggressive architecture refresh strategy. Well, Intel is definitely working hard, their update to the first Intel Core Duo is coming faster. Here is the new schedule for the new Intel Core Duo 2 family: * Server chip (codenamed Woodcrest) ships June. * Desktop (codenamed Conroe). July. * Mobile (Merom). August. Of…
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Basic Camera setup
So, what did I what’s the final recommendation on what to get, here is where and some places. These places by the way are already obsolete a week later so go to pricegrabber to get the correct latest prices. Here is the basic dSLR setup: * Canon Digital Rebel XT. “Buydig”:https://buydig.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=CNDRXTB. $674 plus $100 rebate.…
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Why does sand ripple?
Rick asked me, why does sand ripple. bq. Wind ripples in the sand show how close the frontiers of science can be. The exact mechanism is not well understood. Sand doesn’t really fly in the wind. Grains bounce along in a process called saltation, and bump other grains into the air when they land, called…
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RoboForm Password Manager
I can’t take it, there are just too many passwords to remember and it isn’t very secure. “Roboform”:http://www.roboform.com/ is something my buddy Bill uses to automate this. I’m a believer now, it is sure convenient to have something that knows various passwords and that has a master. It also fills in your credit card information…
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Fujifilm Finepix F11 and xD Cards
Well, the xD is kind of a strange format that only the Fujifil FinePix F11 (“DCViews”:http://www.dcviews.com/reviews/Fuji-F11/Fuji-F11-review.htm) uses as far as I can tell. By the way, that is a great review of the F11. Amongst other things it does note that the camera sometimes overexposes. A small -1/3EV correction can be programed to take care…