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Continue reading →: ILife and me.com tips
The “Old” Apple software is like anything on the PC kind of quirky. Here are some of the asymmetries 1. The iPhoto slideshow is beautiful and most of the web says you can’t just turn it into a movie. You have to use iDVD. Turns out that in fact there…
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Continue reading →: Vuescan and Minolta Elite 5400 notes
Well despite all the things going on, I’ve been working through scanning old images. Been using an iMac with Vuescan 64-bit for Snow Leopard. And an old Minolta DiImage Elite 5400. Lots of settings for vuescan for this thing, so here are some notes on usage. Also see Robert Feinman’s…
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Continue reading →: Follow focus via USB
Rather than some huge expensive things that rotates the focus, these guys decided to use the software inside the camera and it turn the focus using the autofocus already built in. Clever! So the USB Follow Focus is small light and elegant:
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Continue reading →: CES cool stuff
Well of course there is the Verizon iPhone, but the main thing that’s depressing is no GSM compatibility so not really a good world phone for us. There is CES Best of Consumer
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Continue reading →: Just watched Expendables…IMFDB Rocks
The Internet Movie Firearms Database. There is nothing cooler. Here are the weapons on the Expendables! All star action case, but the weapons were amazing: The single action colt revolver Like Black Ops, the Dual Wield Kimber The F2000 which is a bullpup and in Call of Duty as well\…
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Continue reading →: Ski lust
Skiing Magazine has the most complete reviews but makes it all but impossible to find things. No sorting at all on anything, the default appears to be by greatest width to narrowest as if that makes sense and somewhat by date, although 2006 reviews appear quite often which is either…
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Continue reading →: Learning Chinese…
Watching the Forbidden Kingdom reminds me of all the Chinese i haven’t learned yet 🙂 Sun wu Kong is the Monkey King ??; Yù Huáng or the Jade Emperor
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Continue reading →: Ski lust
Things that Dad wants for Christmas (next year!): Armada JJ’s. Although Mark says the Rossignol S7 are great too as does Skiing Magazine. Rockered and reverse cambered. Work on hard pack and the deep powder Bibs. Socks. Seems stupid until you spend 8 hours a day for a week and…
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Continue reading →: Installing Red River paper ICCs
I keep losing how to install this for the custom paper I have from Red River, here’s how but when I do all this the photo comes out very red when I use it with PhotoPro RGB color space (a 16-bit space) but still looks over red even with Adobe…
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Continue reading →: Canon i9900 8×10 printing
They don’t ship it with 8×10 borderless printing, so the workaround is to fool it by telling Photoshop you have 8.5 x 11 borderless and then printing as if it was 8×10… Have you tried this: 1) Creat a 13×19 white (or transparent) document of appropriate color depth and…