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Next Macbook
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Continue reading â: Next MacbookI’ve been wondering when the next Macbook would ship. The days of Intel jamming new processors out every month seems to be over. The net is that we won’t see a new Macbook until this coming May, so if you need to buy one youare reasonably safe. The improvements are…
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Continue reading â: Gitzo GT-2530 Tripod, Arca Swiss Monoball B1 and Markins Q-Ball Q3 Emille
I’ve been using a cheap monopod mainly for a small camcorder, but with all the photos I’ve been taking especially the night shots of Shanghai and other locations, I need a better and fuller tripod. As with most things, the best value is to buy a slightly better one that…
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Power Toys for XP
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Continue reading â: Power Toys for XPWell Vista may be here, but for those of us not upgrading (until the next machine comes preinstalled), here are some cool utilities that don’t get much press, but which are pretty useful. They are called “PowerToys”:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx and amongst them are: * RAW Image viewer. If you are using Canon…
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Tamarack and Ski Accessories
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Continue reading â: Tamarack and Ski AccessoriesJust spent a week with Dave over at “Tamarack”:http://www.tamarackidaho.com/, this is a new resort that’s opened in Idaho. It is just three years old and they are still building it. We really lucked out on the snow there. Got 11 inches of powder one day and also had the great…
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Continue reading â: Chinese English Dictionaries
No one has written the perfect application yet for learning Chinese IMHO. It should have both Chinese, Pinyin and English and you should be able to highlight anything and see the translations. The closest seems to be: # DictCN. This is a Firefox plug in that really works well for…
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Fuji F10 Manual and Drivers
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Continue reading â: Fuji F10 Manual and DriversThis is now an old camera, but for some reason the Fuji F10 camera requires its own USB driver and you can get it from the “Download”:http://www.fujifilmusa.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/ServiceSupportProduct.jsp?prodcat=833110. powered by performancing firefox
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Microsoft EXIF and RAW Image Thumbnailer
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Continue reading â: Microsoft EXIF and RAW Image Thumbnailer“The-Digital-Pictures”:http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Canon-News/ is a great Canon site, but also has two great tips for XP users, first is to download the “Microsoft Photo Info”:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/photoinfo.mspx which allows EXIF information editing and second is “Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer”:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d48e808e-b10d-4ce4-a141-5866fd4a3286&DisplayLang=en that lets you see RAW images from Canon and Nikon. powered by performancing firefox
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Continue reading â: Sorry not to have blogged… Performancing bugs
Sorry not to have posted for a while. I gummed up Performancing the blog tool I use in Firefox. And there is no way to logon to ask questions. For those of you using that Firefox add-on, to really reset Performancing, you have to go to c:\documents and settings\rich\Application Data\Mozilla\…\profiles\…
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Xoom
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Continue reading â: XoomThis is a company that Brian mentioned that lets you send money overseas. It seems pretty cool as an idea. Kind of an overseas paypal called “Xoom”:https://www.xoom.com/
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Continue reading â: Canon 350D Digital Rebel to Adobe Bridge to Photoshop CS2 to Canon i9900 and Red River Paper
I’m sure I posted before on this, but I always have a hard time finding all the instructions in one place to do this. Here are the steps: # Buy “Red River 68lb Glossy Paper”:http://redrivercatalog.com. It is very good stuff and not expensive. I use the 68lb Glossy that’s precut…
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