The Omni Group - Applications - OmniOutliner - Extras
When I purchased OO Pro I was surprised I didn't get any sample documents. This is one heck of a powerful application and some examples would help. I requested they provide some, I think I got an acknowledgement.
Now they've added a site for both scripts and sample documents. Yay!
Sunday, February 20, 2005
OS X screen capture: Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4
I've been doing image capture the OS X way, using Grab.app.
I just learned that ancient Classic methods still works, and it still creates a PICT image. Not much understands PICT any more, but Omni Outliner Pro still does.
So hit Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4. Highlight the area to image. The PICT is now in the clipboard. Paste it into OO Pro.
I just learned that ancient Classic methods still works, and it still creates a PICT image. Not much understands PICT any more, but Omni Outliner Pro still does.
So hit Cmd-Shift-Ctrl-4. Highlight the area to image. The PICT is now in the clipboard. Paste it into OO Pro.
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Visit the world, from your couch
NASA just keeps giving and giving and giving... | MetaFilter
Free Windows-only software to browse the world via images. We don't have rocket packs, but otherwise this is starting to feel like science fiction.
Google's Keyhole may do more but it's not free and used to be picky about hardware. (Also Windows only.)
Too much map and imaging stuff is Windows only. One of my favorite pieces of software, Microsoft Trips and Streets, is (surprise) also Windows only.
Free Windows-only software to browse the world via images. We don't have rocket packs, but otherwise this is starting to feel like science fiction.
Google's Keyhole may do more but it's not free and used to be picky about hardware. (Also Windows only.)
Too much map and imaging stuff is Windows only. One of my favorite pieces of software, Microsoft Trips and Streets, is (surprise) also Windows only.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Two Macintouch software updates of interest (to me)
MacInTouch: "Amadeus II 3.8 is a disk-based sound editor and processor, with visual waveform editing, live recording, sampling, analysis, sound repair/denoising tools, a parametric equalizer designed for restoring old vinyl recordings, and other features. This release includes the latest version of the FLAC encoding engine and fixes a number of bugs from Version 3.8. Amadeus II is $30 for Mac OS X 10.2 and up and Mac OS 9.
OmniOutliner 3.0.1 updates the Omni Group's outliner and organizer with stability and performance improvements, enhanced importing and exporting, and minor interface and usability changes. OmniOutliner 3 is $39.95 ($69.95 Professional) for Mac OS X 10.2 and up."
OmniOutliner 3.0.1 updates the Omni Group's outliner and organizer with stability and performance improvements, enhanced importing and exporting, and minor interface and usability changes. OmniOutliner 3 is $39.95 ($69.95 Professional) for Mac OS X 10.2 and up."
New Canon Digital Rebel: light sensitivity yes!
Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT: Digital Photography Review
This camera is just out.
No vibration damping though. I'm told another vendor (Konica/Minolta?) has a patent lock on sensor based anti-vibration support. Nikon and Canon do vibration damping in the lens, which means prohibitively expensive lenses.
This camera is just out.
The EOS 350D Digital features a newly developed, second generation, extremely low noise APS-C size 8.0 Megapixel CMOS sensor – the fourth new CMOS sensor from Canon in just twelve months. It is powered by the same DIGIC II image processor found in Canon’s professional series D-SLR cameras, and features 3 frame per second, 14 frame burst operation, USB 2.0 Hi-Speed interface, simultaneous RAW and Large JPEG writing and 0.2 second start up time. The camera is more than 10% lighter and 25% smaller by volume than the EOS 300D.Here's the key feature
The low noise of the second generation CMOS sensor delivers clean images from ISO 100 through to ISO 1600.ISO 1600. That means indoor pictures without flash given a reasonable lens.
No vibration damping though. I'm told another vendor (Konica/Minolta?) has a patent lock on sensor based anti-vibration support. Nikon and Canon do vibration damping in the lens, which means prohibitively expensive lenses.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Colorsync support with Safari
MacInTouch Home Page: "[John Fieber] Safari and Omniweb support embedded ICC profiles. ColorSync is always enabled in Safari, and is a preferences option in Omniweb and Internet Explorer.
A caveat about Safari ColorSync support is that it assumes Generic RGB for untagged images, not sRGB. I, and a lot of other folks on Apple's colorsync list, find this rather distressing since, for better or worse, sRGB is the standard for web graphics in the absence of explicit tags. I haven't checked what Omniweb and IE assume for untagged images.
ICC Profiles in Images is a page to test colorsync support.
ColorSync in Mozilla addresses the Mozilla family of browsers.
[Christer Olsson] There's actually no way to turn ColorSync off in Mac OS X 10.3. Safari (and Mail and Preview) is using ColorSync to match tagged images. More details can be found in the following document: Color_Management_in_Mac_OS_X.pdf"
A caveat about Safari ColorSync support is that it assumes Generic RGB for untagged images, not sRGB. I, and a lot of other folks on Apple's colorsync list, find this rather distressing since, for better or worse, sRGB is the standard for web graphics in the absence of explicit tags. I haven't checked what Omniweb and IE assume for untagged images.
ICC Profiles in Images is a page to test colorsync support.
ColorSync in Mozilla addresses the Mozilla family of browsers.
[Christer Olsson] There's actually no way to turn ColorSync off in Mac OS X 10.3. Safari (and Mail and Preview) is using ColorSync to match tagged images. More details can be found in the following document: Color_Management_in_Mac_OS_X.pdf"
Monday, February 14, 2005
Video out from Mac Mini analog VGA is underpowered?
Mac Mini (Part 7) - Macintouch: "About the 'dim-VGA-signal' symptom with the Mac Mini: Merman computer-magazine C't' has measured the analogue signal coming out of the Mac Mini. They wrote that the signal- level stays below 530mV and this clearly is out of the VESA- specs. Signal-strength is too low. Some monitors can handle the weak signal well, some don't. Better go with DVI."
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