David Allen
Talk about reputation management. He comes highly recommended by a very interesting guy I've been reading. Another one to add.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Marc's Outlook on Productivity: Blurring the lines
Marc's Outlook on Productivity: Blurring the lines
Some interesting references. Need to add to my RSS collection.
Some interesting references. Need to add to my RSS collection.
Toshiba - Digital Media Server (DVD Player/TiVo DVR Combo) - SD-H400
Toshiba - Digital Media Server (DVD Player/TiVo DVR Combo) - SD-H400
Public TV pledge week broke me. We need a PVR to get our family through fund raisers. This doesn't zap commercials the way we want, but it is very nice to have a DVD player in the package - so we can drop one set of plugs. Of course we really need VHS/DVD/PVR player ... I wonder if I could use the PVR to digitize our 8mm analog home video? Techbargains also points to a rebate on Tivo service.
Of course I hate rebates ...
Public TV pledge week broke me. We need a PVR to get our family through fund raisers. This doesn't zap commercials the way we want, but it is very nice to have a DVD player in the package - so we can drop one set of plugs. Of course we really need VHS/DVD/PVR player ... I wonder if I could use the PVR to digitize our 8mm analog home video? Techbargains also points to a rebate on Tivo service.
Of course I hate rebates ...
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Gormish Notes on JPEG 2000: very nice (and unique) March 2004 summary
Gormish Notes on JPEG 2000
I found this by Googling on "Kakadu" and "Fnord". This is a classic Google technique for finding diamonds among the dross. Only a superb site would mention both. The search produced about 2-3 english pages, of which only one was relevant.
I found this by Googling on "Kakadu" and "Fnord". This is a classic Google technique for finding diamonds among the dross. Only a superb site would mention both. The search produced about 2-3 english pages, of which only one was relevant.
JPEG 2000 on Mac and PC: ICC issues and fixes
Google Search: jfaughnan
From a Yahoo Groups posting of mine:
I have since upgraded to 10.3.3 and it's the same issue [some PC generated JPEGs render as black box on OS X viewer, Safari, etc]. It looks like Quicktime/Mac has problems with some of the ICC headers [color profile] that some windows photoshop plug-ins insert into a JPEG 2000 file. GraphicConverter doesn't have the problem and when it saves the files the headers are accepted on the Mac.
BTW, I think the JPEG2000 world is really starting to pop. After years of quiet I see a lot of Photoshop Plug-In out there -- from free to $50. QuickTime supports it (sort of, see above) as does GC (very well). Due to QT support Safari and iPhoto show JPEG2000 images.
Acrobat Distiller 6.0 supports JPEG2000 compression, as do the Acrobat 6.0 readers.
For document scanning there's no real alternative that's not totally proprietary. (JPEG2000 is "standard" but patent encumbered.)
I'm going to try some other PhotoShop Plug-Ins until I find one that renders JPEG2000 images that QuickTime can open. GC will be one way to test problematic items.
From a Yahoo Groups posting of mine:
I have since upgraded to 10.3.3 and it's the same issue [some PC generated JPEGs render as black box on OS X viewer, Safari, etc]. It looks like Quicktime/Mac has problems with some of the ICC headers [color profile] that some windows photoshop plug-ins insert into a JPEG 2000 file. GraphicConverter doesn't have the problem and when it saves the files the headers are accepted on the Mac.
BTW, I think the JPEG2000 world is really starting to pop. After years of quiet I see a lot of Photoshop Plug-In out there -- from free to $50. QuickTime supports it (sort of, see above) as does GC (very well). Due to QT support Safari and iPhoto show JPEG2000 images.
Acrobat Distiller 6.0 supports JPEG2000 compression, as do the Acrobat 6.0 readers.
For document scanning there's no real alternative that's not totally proprietary. (JPEG2000 is "standard" but patent encumbered.)
I'm going to try some other PhotoShop Plug-Ins until I find one that renders JPEG2000 images that QuickTime can open. GC will be one way to test problematic items.
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