Tim’s work combines several of his greatest passions: technology, teaching, photography, writing, and travel. all of these have been part of his life in some way for as long as he can remember, and became a major focus starting in high school. he has been focused on digital photography and imaging for over 10 years.
Tim has written more than a dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on photography and imaging. he publishes the digital darkroom Questions email newsletter, as well as the Digital Darkroom Quarterly print newsletter. tim teaches through workshops, seminars, and appear ances at major events, and is a member of the photoshop World dream team of instructors.
This book is really one question after another Tim answered over the years, arranged in an order that makes sense and explains how to get the best picture possible from your digital camera. Chapter headings are:
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MacHeist is having another bundle sale, this time it’s 6 apps and they’re Free! Wonder Warp Software’s Shovebox: Temporary information storage Hog Bay Software’s WriteRoom: "Distraction-free" word processor Iconfactory’s Twitterrific: Twitter client TinyGrab’s TinyGrab: Screenshot sharing Freeverse’s Hordes of Orcs: Tower defense game After 500,000 folks download the bundle, the 6th app will be [...]
Spotify is a Music streaming service from a Developer in Sweden with the headquarters based in Luxembourg that allows you to stream music from the web. Now I know that they are striking up deals with Indie companies in the US and I’m sure they’ll get the bigger boys on soon, so hopefully they’ll be appearing over the pond in the US soon.
There are three basic models that you can subscribe to. First, a free option which currently I think is only available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain, and some of those countries you will need an invite, so you’ll need to take a look locally to see if that’s the case.
Koingo Software would like to announce a special New Years promotion with MacZot, where they’re offering MacCleanse alongside another 10 applications from other developers for only $59! These include titles like GarageSale, DEVONthink Personal, AppZapper, Xslimmer, Media Rage and more!
gtdagenda.com ($69.95 Premier Account) is a project and task management application based on David Allen’s GTD. It has the main features like Projects, Contexts and Next Actions that you would expect in an application of this sort.
It has taken me a while to get round to writing this review as my relationship with gtdagenda.com has been very stop/start. I should stress that this has nothing to do with the application but with my own blogging laziness, the fact that I haven’t really been that busy so haven’t exactly had many tasks to manage, and the ongoing debate I have with myself over the cloud life.
I am always somewhat skeptical with ‘productivity’ type applications and services as I tend to feel that you spend an age setting them up, populating them, and then forcing them into your workflow that it becomes counter productive. With gtdagenda.com I took the conscious decision that I would just let it sit there and I would allow it to worm its way into by workflow as and when it felt relevant, and I certainly wasn’t going to spend any time setting it up!! To that end I didn’t bother to look at everything that it could do as I felt that would ‘force me’ into using the features regardless of need.
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I have long envied people that live the cloud life as Paul describes it, and while many people over the years have said that I have my head in the clouds, or that I live up on Cloud 9, it really isn’t something that my life style requires or benefits from.
I looked at Memopal a couple of months ago and liked it, especially the 250GB of storage, but couldn’t find a place for it in my workflow. Basically having effectively your whole hard drive on line sort of seemed pointless at the end of the day ….. may as well take the MacBook Pro with me i.e. if I need access to all my data all the time then surely I would be better with it offline and accessible?
From time to time I do have a need to access a document from another computer, and to share them with people that I am working on a project with, or as Dropbox call it “seamlessly sync files between multiple computers as well as act as a conduit for backing up files online”.
For me the single biggest plus is the seamless integration on the Mac. Can’t say what it is like on Windows (and frankly don’t care), nor on Linux (but that is because I have never bothered to look at Linux yet), but in the Mac it sits in the Finder:
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How many times have you pulled out an old board game, only to find the dice missing? That exact same thing happened to me the other day and my iPod Touch came in rather handy.
Picture it if you can, a rain sodden day. Well why would it do anything else, it is here Summer after all! I decided, as it was wet out, to stay inside and get the board games out! So I dusted off the Mr Men Board Game Compendium a relic of my wife’s 1970’s childhood days. Ella and I slowly popped the lid. Shock, horror, no dice! I had to think fast, time was against me, and I could immediately see the disappointment rapidly welling up in little Ella’s face. She was going to blow.
I have recently been looking at using online services to see if they would ‘enhance’ my workflow, back up strategy etc. I have written already about MobileMe and the total mess that Apple have made of it (and still are doing by the way!) but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel in terms of adding value. Having recently upgraded, jailbroken, and handed over my iPhone to Sands I am starting to figure out how we will benefit from it.
I normally do not blog about things that are non-Mac related, but this deal is so good, I had to do it. If you’re a Led Zeppelin Fan, like a lot of us old guys are, you’ll want to take advantage of Rhapsody MP3 Store’s special deal. For only $9.99 you get the full boxed [...]
This week I am looking at a web service called SugarSync. I am fortunate enough to have two Macs. I keep one at home and the other follows me around. To make matters even more confusing, there is a PC box on my desk at the office. My challenge was to figure a way to keep the files synced between these various computers without becoming a slave to a thumb drive. These are the kind of problems that make my little geek heart go pitter-patter, obsessing over making sure everything is in sync rather than doing any actual work.
I tried a variety of ways to solve this problem ranging from thumb drives to iDisk and I wasn’t particularly happy with any of them. My biggest problem with these solutions is the way they add steps to my workflow. I don’t want to have to think about copying and synchronizing files every time I move from one computer to the next. I just want it done. Like Picard in his dome-headed glory, I just want to look at my Mac and say “Make it So.”
Appletell had a couple of interesting posts this week. I wanted to share them with you. I think the idea here is that the world is starting to recognize the amazing hardware and applications that us Mac users have known existed for years. * Business Week recently ranked Apple the #2 performing Tech company in [...]
ATVFlash is back and better! After it closed down sales last week, it was thought that AppleCore LLC was having trouble with the software it was using in it’s Flash Drive. Of course we remember ATVFlash from a review on the MacReviewCast podcast in March where a listener told us about this great idea of loading all the software on AppleTV that was needed to read and play almost any video and audio format direct from your AppleTV or from your Mac, without iTunes.
Well I just received this email from the listener that reviewed the software, John Long, and here is what AppleCore LLC announced,
I’ve been a very stubborn individual when it came to using online servers as backup for my files. The main reason was because it was a slow, tedious process. It took so long to upload the first time and then you had to upload the same files next time, and it took almost as long as it did the initial upload. But something changed my mind. Believe it or not, it was the old Windows PC at the office I had to use.
It seemed that the office had no policy for backups. Everyone was on their own. Since my PC didn’t have a re-writable drive, DVD, nor CD, I decided to bite the bullet and try the latest online file repositories, or as they now like to be called, syncing services.
Continue reading about My Favorite Online Syncing: SpiderOak
The Wigix marketplace is the new way to buy and sell online, and it’s easy too. On every item page, you’ll see both ‘Buy’ and ‘Sell’ buttons. If you’d like to buy an item, simply click on the ‘Buy’ button. Next, set up a buy order with your criteria. You can view all your orders, [...]
