Sunday, March 20, 2011

Migrating images from SmugMug to Google's Picasa image store - Lessons in data lock and business models

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Life is fractal. That is, sampled at scales small and large, it resembles itself. Sometimes I think this is profound, especially when lookin...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Why cropping an 18 megapixel image isn't as good as an adequate telephoto

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An 18 megapixel image has twice the data as an 9 megapixel image. So does that mean a 135 mm telephoto and an 18 megapixel sensor can do as...

Blogger's text editor: I make another plea for a rational approach to paragraph formatting

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It took considerable restraint for me to write this so politely. Please stop using div tags to define paragraphs - Blogger Help My blogs ...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

How I made Gmail and OS X 10.6 Mail.app into a grumpily married couple

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There's no way to make Gmail and OS X Mail.app [1] into a happily married couple. The Google Label (very shallow acyclic graph) vs. IM...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Digital cameras plateau - from my 2005 XT to my 2011 T2i

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I bought my Canon G2 in October 2002 [1] and my Digital Rebel XT in Nov 2005. A few days ago I picked up the Canon Digital Rebel T2i (550D...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

eCamm PhoneView for iPhone and iPad - restore game data, extract contacts

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I bought  Camm PhoneView for iPhone and iPad (not on App Store) because I wanted to be able to save and restore game data if I needed to r...
Saturday, March 05, 2011

Safari isn't showing my frame contents

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Chrome for OS X shows our old family news page as it has appeared for about ten years ... On the right side of the page we see two "...