Saturday, March 20, 2004

Morgan Multimedia Kakadu derived JPEG2000 plug-in for Mozilla and IE

Morgan Multimedia - Home of the MM MJPEG video codec.
The other sources I've found are just Active-X plugins. I found one problem with Mac/PC JPEG2000 images, some Photoshop plugins produce ICC embedded items that Quicktime and Mac plugins can't read.

SI Photo: Recommended Sports Illustrated settings for Canon 10D

SI Photo
Note the advice on sensor dust. Interesting links to photoshop color setup.

ACDSee 1.6 for Mac: OS X software for digital picture viewing on Macintosh.

ACDSee 1.6 for Mac: OS X software for digital picture viewing on Macintosh.: "ACDSee 1.6 for Mac is a fast image viewing and management tool compatible with Mac OS X software. It lets you view, browse and organize your digital pictures and multimedia files extremely fast and comes with TWAIN image acquisition support for scanners."
Sports Illustrated's favorite image viewer. I'll try it out.

Friday, March 19, 2004

Free & Impressive Fnord (Kakadu) Photoshop JPEG 2000 (jp2) plug-in

j2k
I tried the LEAP plug-in, I couldn't read the JPEG 2000 files on my Mac. Fnord software in San Francisco puts out this free Photoshop plug-in for Mac and PC. Last updated 1/03. Written by Brendan Bolles .

The Fnord plug-in uses Kakadu 3.2. QuickTime/Mac and Yahoo Messenger use the same development kit, created by Dr. David Taubman at the University of New South Wales. The common SDK source for this plug-in and QuickTime may be responsible for the Mac compatibility.

I used it with Photoshop Elements 2.0/PC to compress a 10MB PNG map scan to a very readable 200K JP2 file. Unlike the LEAP plug-in the Fnord file was readable by Quicktime/Mac. In both cases I included the Adobe sRGB ICC file, but Quicktime choked on the LEAP generated jp2 file.

USB Active Extension Cable by A-TEN

USB Active Extension Cable by A-TEN
USB Active Extension Cable by A-TEN
Part NO: UAE-16
Features : The USB Active Extension Cable is not a passive cable. It has a patent pending ASIC chip inside that buffers the ingoing and outgoing USB signals. Passive cables have the risk of data loss because they cannot pass the signals efficiently. The Active Extension Cable acts as a single port hub, which means that multiple cables can be cascaded (up to 5) to increase the distance between your computer and USB devices. The cable meets USB specifications and works with low-speed and high-speed devices
Extends the distance of a USB Device by 16 feet (5 m).
Can be cascaded, up to 5 cables to greater extend the distance to up to 80 feet (25 m). Complies with USB Electrical and Timing Specs for a USB Hub.

Looks good. Be nice to have a wireless bridge solution to extend a USB cable. Don't know of one.

Fix for installation of Palm Desktop in OS X 10.3

palmOne - Support - palmOne Permission Fixer
"The palmOne Permission Fixer application resolves a known issue with the Palm Desktop installer and Macintosh OS X when iSync 1.2 has been installed.

You may receive the following error during installation or re-installation of Palm Desktop if you have installed the iSync 1.2 Palm Conduit for Mac OS X: "Sorry, the operation could not be completed due to a System error. (Access Denied.)"