January 2008
forget the 60mm. I want the AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR
Eat At Joes! →
Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant 4320 Mission Street (at Silver) San Francisco, CA 94112 415-334-6699 “Joe grinds his own chuck fresh daily,” reads the neon sign as you make your way into Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco’s Excelsior District. Part butcher shop, part hamburger mecca, since 1965 Armenian Joe Obegi has been serving some of the...
Desk Grommet With Cable Trap Looks Incredibly... →
This grommet is just a design, but we wonder why it took someone this long to come up with such a genius (and obvious) idea. Like a regular desk grommet, it’s a big hole that lets cables through. Unlike a regular desk grommet, it’s got notches on the side of different sizes to grasp and hold your cables so they don’t fall on the ground, making you breath in dust for a few seconds...
Apple - Find Out How - Mac OS X →
Watch Report reviews Nike Amp+ Remote Control →
Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family
I’m a fan of watches, so I have been interested in the Nike Amp+ Remote Control for awhile. That’s the watch/iPod remote control from Nike that works with your iPod Nano /Nike+ combo. It will let you start, stop, and fast forward music, as well as tell the time and give you one button access to your power song. I haven’t bought one for a...
Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service →
Today, Web-based IM and chat room provider Meebo is releasing full-fledged APIs for its Meebo Rooms that will allow Websites to embed chat functionality in an automated fashion. Currently, Meebo Rooms can be embedded on sites or blogs manually by pasting in the appropriate code, which has already led to a proliferation of such widgets. There are more than 200,000 Meebo Rooms, attracting millions...
Amazon adds Audible to its digital empire →
Filed under: Portable Audio
Amazon just announced an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. The move, once approved by the Feds and shareholders, leaves Audible.com’s 80,000 strong library of audiobooks, radio programs, newspapers, and such in the hands of Amazon. Funny how a company built on a foundation of paper now finds itself knee deep in digital music, books, video and even devices. The...
The Republican Debate in 60 seconds... →
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8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt Measures Proximity to... →
Two shirts, two lovers, a bunch of hearts and one shared bad clothing taste or a shared obsession with Zelda. Or both. In any case, this proximity-based 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt is a recipe for style disaster. Or absolute happiness. Probably depending on your alcohol mana or yellow smiley pills stamina levels, as the animated diagram shows.
In the words of purveyors of all things absurd Think...
Macessity's LowKey Stand for Apple neat-freaks →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals
Tidy, huh? If you’re an iMac or Apple Studio Display owner then you’ll see the immediate appeal of this LowKey Stand from Macessity. Constructed of 0.1085-inch thick steel “power-coated” to match your rig, it neatly hides your new slim Apple keyboard from view. There’s also a powered 4-port USB port up front which helps to...
Putting photos into public domain →
One advantage of putting all my photos into the public domain? People are now uploading them to Wikipedia. Like this entry for AT&T’s CEO. All my photos are in the public domain now. You can use them without even attributing them, or giving me credit (although I do appreciate those of you who give credit for my work). Why do I do that? Because sharing my work with the world has brought me...
Google execs in 20 year pact -- matching sneakers... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
It might interest you that shortly before Google went public in 2004, Larry, Sergey and CEO Eric Schmidt made a 20 year pact. According to an interview in Fortune magazine, the trio says, “We agreed the month before we went public that we should work together for 20 years.” If the promise is carried to fruition, Schmidt will be 69, Page 51, and Brin 50...
Instapaper →
cool idea
: Zena Holloway :: Underwater Photographer &... →
A Word About the Canon EOS 5D Successor... →
Interesting bit just tossed our way by the Canon rep, slightly paraphrased: The EOS-1Ds line (their full-frame pro DSLRs) is on a three-year upgrade cycle. The 1Ds Mark II came out in 2004, and the Mark III dropped in 2007. The EOS 5D came out in 2005.
Draw your own conclusions.
Simple Bookmarking Now Available with Instapaper →
Instapaper is a cool new service taking bookmarks back to basics. If you come across some websites that you want to read but are too busy to do so, you can click on an Instapaper browser bookmarklet and then return to the Instapaper website later to read them. Think of it as Del.icio.us stripped of any tagging or social features.
Instapaper is a side project of Marco Arment, lead developer at...
Hands-on with the Garmin nuvifone →
Filed under: Cellphones, Features, GPS
Well, ask and ye shall receive. We wrangled some of the Garmin folks to get a better view of the nuvifone, and wouldn’t you know it… we did! Check the gallery below for some close-up action with a non-working model, and comparison shots of the device with the iPhone. The phone feels light and lean in your hands, we should note, and we’re...
YouSendIt releases Express for Mac →
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Internet, Apple
I’m probably one of the few bloggers here who hasn’t shelled out for a .Mac subscription (and an iDisk) — I’ve just never personally come across a situation where I needed one. For transferring big files I usually either throw it on a DVD or an FTP site, or I use YouSendIt for free — there’s a 100mb limit, but in...
nuvifone: Garmin Drops a Phone into the GPS [GPS] →
Today in a surprise announcement in New York City, Garmin announced the nuvifone, a full-fledged GSM HSDPA smartphone built on its own operating system with GPS navigation at its core—but e-mail and web browsing close to its heart, and a camera built in too. No pricing or carrier announcement has been made yet, though its likeliest compatible network is AT&T given the technology. (When...
Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects - Projects... →
Delta Shelter →
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Inflatable Mouse is Super Portable, Fun to Squish... →
The Jelly Click mouse concept could make it easy for business travelers to carry around a full-size mouse without taking up a whole lot of space. The device itself is fairly simple: a small flexible board carries all of the circuitry while the body is composed of plastic that can be blown up manually.
When not in use, it can be folded into a compact size or slid between the screen and keyboard...
Campfire goes iPhone →
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
If you’re a fan of web-based group chat tool Campfire, you may be pleased to learn that it’s now available for the iPhone. Now, when you visit Campfire sites on the iPhone, you’ll be directed to an iPhone-optimized version.
Due to the way the developers have created the iPhone version, you’ll need to use two-fingered scrolling to move...
Extended life battery for 17-MBP on the way →
Battery on your 17-inch MBP not what it used to be? Perhaps you’re just looking for a backup? Fastmac, purveyors of fine third-party Apple ware, have announced an extended life battery upgrade for that MBP of yours. The TruePower replacement is expected to ship within 10 days and is available for pre-order now at a special introductory price of $99.95.
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Canon Professional Network - Daniel Forster →
Sony announces 1080p projector, time for me to... →
I’m not unhappy with the 42-inch Vizio that’s sitting in my living room, but it’s only 720p and who wouldn’t want a 1080p set? My brother splashes up 720p content onto his 90-something-inch screen and that makes me uber jealous. Playing Gears of War, Assassin’s Creed, BioShock, or even Halo 3 just isn’t the same when I come home after spending a few hours at my brother’s place.
Projectors are...
Nikon's D60 is world's first Eye-Fi enhanced... →
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wireless, Storage
It may be a low-end DSLR contender, but Nikon’s D60 can still surprise. Seems Nikon and Eye-Fi are in cahoots as the D60 was just announced as the first shooter crowned “Eye-Fi Connected.” The D60 recognizes the Eye-Fi wireless 2GB SD card when inserted then automatically adjusts its “power timer settings” so that...
Updated HDR Tutorial for 2008 →
A few Saturdays ago I ripped apart my old tutorial and rebuilt it from the ground up to make the new tutorial. I have a feeling most people just go there for my Photomatix Discount code of “StuckInCustoms”, and I get a bunch of spammers that leave comments (now over 300) about enhancing my female parts, which seems to be poorly targeted.
I’ve also changed the basis photograph for the tutorial to...
Digital Sculpture at Heathrow Airport Demonstrates... →
Commissioned for the atrium of the brand spanking new Terminal 5 at Heathrow, Cloud is a digital sculpture conceived by art and design studio Troika. The five-meter structure is suspended above the escalators and consists of three layers. Find out what lies beneath the black and silver flick-dots, and see the sculpture in action below the gallery.
On top of an aluminum body sit 4,638 dots that...
yesterday 50º and raining. Today 1º and snow. Average wind speed 21. Wind chill -20º Ice everywhere, Schools closed for the day.
Australia's monster motorbike from hell →
Filed under: Motorsports, Etc., Australia, Motorcycles
Proving once again that it is always easier to tear things apart than it is to build them is the Australian monster, as seen above. The builder, Ray Baumann, says that “this is a way of taking a bit more care,” if you can believe that. You see, his previous job was as a stunt driver. He claims that it is much safer riding this...
Photographer's career sails along →
The Canon Professional Network features the work of yachting photographer Daniel Forster who’s spent the past 35 years as a sailing specialist.
Bird Poops In Local News Reporter's Mouth →
Behind The Scenes with Cutting Edge Photographer... →
NAPP members have been buzzing about Dave Hill’s work, and I have to agree; I think Dave’s stuff is absolutely kick-butt brilliant; from his composition, to his lighting, to his retouching work in Photoshop; he’s got “The look” that everybody wants (from the biggest magazines to this Fortune 500 clients).
But beyond that, I love that he’s taking it to the next level by posting behind-the-scenes...
Press Release: PANASONIC EXPANDS ITS AWARD-WINNING... →
LAS VEGAS, NV (January 29, 2008) – Panasonic today introduced two new additions to its award-winning TZ-family of LUMIX digital cameras, the DMC-TZ5 and DMC-TZ4 – both packing a 28mm wide-angle, 10X optical zoom Leica DC lens in a compact design, ideal for the active user needing a versatile camera. By combining a 28mm wide-angle lens, which lets the user capture a wider-framed shot when compared...
Five Whys →
Joel Spolsky on uptime guarantees: Really high availability becomes extremely costly. The proverbial “six nines” availability (99.9999% uptime) means no more than 30 seconds downtime per year. That’s really kind of ridiculous. […] Think of it this way: If your six nines system goes down mysteriously just once and it takes you an hour to figure out the cause and fix it, well, you’ve just blown...
ShakeSMS Lets You Shake Your Nokia to Read Text... →
Shaking a phone to read text messages is as intuitive as swiping your finger across the screen to unlock it, but once you’re trained it becomes second nature. In this case, ShakeSMS is an app for Nokia phones that let you jostle your phone to view an incoming SMS. Jigger it again to go back to the home screen. That’s pretty much all the app does, but it does it well. [ShakeSMS via...
Photographers discuss coverage of U.S. State of... →
John Harrington has posted video interviews with photographers who shot last evening’s State of the Union address in Washington, DC. Speaking about their coverage are AFP’s Tim Sloan, David Burnett of Contact Press Images (using a 4 x 5 camera), USA Today’s Darr Beiser, Dennis Brack from Black Star and several others.
Apple posts "Find out how" tutorials →
Filed under: Switchers, Apple
Today, Apple added a new “Find Out How” section to their website. This new page features video tutorials of the following aspects of the Mac: Mac OS X Photos Movies Web
Music Documents
This information is no doubt welcome to many new switchers, or potential switchers, who want to learn more about the user interface. You can also subscribe to these...
Inside the Bullet Train →
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 26mm — 1/125 sec, f/3.2, ISO 800 —
full exif & map
Type 700 Bullet Train Prepares to Leave Kyoto
Japan’s Bullet Trains – shinkansen –
are justifiably world famous for their speed and amazing punctuality. I’ve
had occasion to ride them several times in the last month or so, once to visit a
friend, and twice for concerts, so I thought I’d...
Dpreview launches lens reviews →
Pre-PMA 2008: Dpreview is pleased to announce the launch of a new section dedicated to testing and reviewing digital SLR lenses. Designed to offer the same class-leading testing standards as its legendary camera reviews, dpreview’s new lens reviews are the result of months of intense research, development and testing, including the development of new test charts and proprietary analysis software...
The State of the Union... in 60 seconds. →
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Nikon D60 brief hands-on →
We’ve had a little bit of a chance to play around with and handle the Nikon’s latest digital SLR, the D60. Here we line it up against the camera we suspect it replaces: the D40X and see what Nikon has done to refresh one of its recent successes.
@blastkelly does a sleeptracker really work?
@blastkelly I was wondering what you did for Pheobe. Now I know what she does for you
Your private photos are still private. →
Wow, first time I’ve slept in since our baby was born (Oct 30th, 2007), and this is what I wake up to. Guess I need to stop slacking.
First, a chance to strike it rich: I’ll give $1,000 $599.99 USD (stupid taxes) to anyone who can get a copy of this photo, or tell me which gallery or account it belongs to. To get paid, you must privately email your findings to SmugMug, including details of how...