Month: September 2005

ExifTool by Phil Harvey

ExifTool by Phil Harvey: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ I’ve been playing around with this tool for a while, mainly using it to add {IPTC} tags to images so that Photoshop can…

Canon Digital Photo Professional

Digital Photo Professional: http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/dpp/ Until tonight I hadn’t paid much attention to this application as I’d mainly been sulking at the lack of EOS 350D support in {iPhoto}….

tv shows in programming languages

In Forth, nip tuck could also be described as swap drop dup -rot Which is why Forth programmers should never get to come up with names for TV…

Copy Your Digital Photos Onto Film – PhotographyBLOG

Copy Your Digital Photos Onto Film – PhotographyBLOG: http://www.photographyblog.com/index.php/weblog/comments/copy_your_digital_photos_onto_film/ Not as retrograde as some of the commenters might like to think: at least properly stored film has a…

Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras | CNET News.com

Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras | CNET News.com: http://news.com.com/Crave privacy New tech knocks out digital cameras/2100-7337_3-5869832.html?part=rss&tag=5869832&subj=news Now this is a fascinating system – pretty much…

LOW MORALE ::: Presents Radiohead Music Video – CREEP

LOW MORALE ::: Presents Radiohead Music Video – CREEP: http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/ Wow. Wow. Wow. Now that animation was so well conceived and executed it actually made me forget that…

updated gallery

3 years and it’s still not quite right… Still, it’s better than before, and even has some more recent stuff but none of it has been retouched in…

art parodying life, imitating art

It’s difficult to describe what it is, exactly, I find so annoying and slightly more than a little distateful about any sort of reunion but most especially school…

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ Gotta love number 5, ‘Educating Users’: “…if it was going to work, it would have worked by now…”

Shure E2c: mini-review

A couple of years ago I bought a pair of Panasonic active noise cancelling headphones from Heathow duty free, and after using them on a transatlantic flight my…

AlphaBaby

AlphaBaby: http://www.kldickey.addr.com/alphababy/ “My kids love to play with the computer. Unfortunately, they also have the habit of renaming my hard drive to ‘axlfkaj’” Now that’s a fun program…

more 10.4 fun: Automator World

Automator World : http://www.automatorworld.com/ Unlike Widgets, I was very interested in Automator as a new feature of {OS X}, but once I tried it I found it disappointing…

worthy widget: TypeCast

I’m still not 100% sure that {OS X} Widgets are a great idea (I tried Konfabulator over a year ago, and it was trashed before the end of…

missing font: found

When I first put up a site at this domain back in 1999 I was using hsc on BeOS: when I moved away from that to Solaris for…