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Luecke. A Texas land owner spells his/her name using trees. One way to advertise on Google.
Luecke. A Texas land owner spells his/her name using trees. One way to advertise on Google.
Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator. Incentivize rss-capable widgets! (via Submit Response)
It’s like watching little Anakin grow into Darth Vader.. Google are now working with the Chinese government to censor content from China’s web surfers. What was Google’s motto again? (via Boing Boing)
It’s like the weblog equivalent of a mexican wave this, isn’t it?
Here are mine then, Phil (I felt compelled to anglicise the headings a bit):
Four jobs I’ve had:
Four films I can watch repeatedly:
Four places I’ve lived
Four TV programmes I like to watch:
Four places I’ve been to on holiday:
Four of my favourite dishes:
Four websites I visit daily:
Four places I would rather be right now:
Four bloggers I am tagging (sorry):
NASA Acronym List. If you take away the technical jargon, it looks like a meeting agenda for a bunch of business executives. (via SpaceTramp)
Nasa’s New Horizons probe has just launched on its 9 year journey to Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt. Broadcast live on NASA TV, they’re currently showing virtual footage of the probe based on telemetry data it is sending to NASA control.
I’ll post more in nine years time when the first pictures arrive!
Web 3.0. Zeldman gives his opinions on Web 2.0, and they’re not all positive. This needed saying, in my opinion.
Pool Hustlers. A series of photographs of pool hustler’s in New York City. Looks like there were shot using a big ol’ TLR. Nice.
Stabilised version of the famous Bigfoot footage. Now you can see the chap in the Gorilla suit more clearly.
Chandler. A new Personal information manager for Linux and OS X from the Open Source Application Foundation. (via BoingBoing)
Stardust@home. A bit like seti@home, but instead of detecting interstellar radio signals, your computer will be looking for motes of interstellar dust caught on a 1’x 1’ sized board.
Nikon are to cease production of 35mm cameras (apart from the flagship F6), as well as Medium and Large Format lenses. Sad but inevitable.
Yesterday Apple’s share price closed at $80.86. The 8086 was Intel’s first 16bit x86 processor.
MacBook Pro? There are too many short sharp syllables in the name ‘MacBook’ for my liking. I suppose they had to think of another name for the top-end portables now that they longer use the PowerPC chip.
Last year, Apple launched Aperture, an image management tool aimed at professional photographers. Just as Apple had introduced Final Cut Pro DV editing software to compete with Adobe Premier, many expected Apple to launch an image manipulation application to give Photoshop a run for its money on OS X. So people were quick to assume that Aperture was Apple’s answer to Photoshop, leading to many negative reviews with Aperture apparently lacking many of the features of Photoshop.
Aperture may a share a handful of features with Photoshop, but image manipulation is not its main purpose. It is a tool to manage the workflow of digital images, using RAW as its native file format. Therefore, it was wrong to criticise Aperture on the basis that it is an image manipulation tool. Other points of criticism included that it is over-priced, and that its system requirements are far too high. Having never used the software, I wouldn’t like to comment on whether it offers value for money or not. But then, I would like to be able to use the software on my Mac Mini, so in my opinion, criticism over its system requirements is valid.
Today’s news is that Adobe have introduced a similar application called Lightroom, and they have been very smart about how they are launching it. You can download a free beta version of the software, allowing photographers to give feedback so that Adobe can improve the software before its official release in the summer. They’ve chosen a great name too, Lightroom being the digital version of the old chemical darkroom (In fact, maybe Lightroom should have been the name for Photoshop?). Best of all, Lightroom doesn’t have the ridiculous system requirements Apple have recommended with Aperture, so it should be useable on my Mac.
Although it seems support for my Nikon D70 isn’t quite there yet – Adobe still have to work around the nasty white balance encryption Nikon have put into there NEF file format – I’m going to follow this software with interest. I just hope that it is reasonably priced when it’s launched.
Related:
How to include Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) In-line. Firefox 1.5 has SVG support and it is forthcoming in Safari.
Behind the Magic Curtain Mike Evangelist, Apple’s former director of video product marketing , describes the amount of work that goes in to Apple’s seemingly effortless Keynote speeches – “The team and I spent hundreds of hours preparing for a segment that lasted about five minutes.”
The Satugo throwable camera is a great idea and an interesting piece of product design. Simply put, it’s a rubber ball with a digital camera inside which either operates off a self-timer or a LOMOesque pull string. Neat idea, but I can’t imagine you’ll get anything other than blurred pictures as the ball whizzes through the air when the shutter fires. Then there’s the risk of Fido catching it in mid-air and chewing it to bits.
Tabulator. Tim Berners-Lee is experimenting with AJAX.
