Back on our May long weekend, we decided to opt for conservative parenting and didn’t take our daughter to see the fireworks (too late and too little sleep we figured), but we made the promise that she’d definitely get to see them on Canada Day. So last night we went.
While Em, along with hundreds of […]

If you’re interested in a super-slick way to browse images (on Flickr, Google Image Search, Picasa, Facebook or any of almost 20 different sites), and you’re using Firefox (Windows/Mac), Safari or even IE, then check out Piclens.
On my XP machine at work I’ve installed the Piclens add-on for FF3 (there’s one for FF2 as well […]

I was in a Wal-Mart up here in Aurora Ontario this weekend, and while sauntering by the electronics section I saw a couple of Flip Video cameras on display for sale. The price was something close to $155.00 as I recall. Up until now I think the Flip Camera was sold exclusively in the States. […]

Browsing through the Flickr Group of You Look Nice Today (a podcast I’m a recently quite fond of), I came across a Geekiest photo pool.
If you are in need of a good and hearty laugh today, just browse that pool of photos. Especially this one posted by Chris Pirillo. Check out his dad’s ‘fro. It […]

Shortly before I went to Las Vegas, I decided I’d like to buy the Flip Video Ultra camcorder while I was down there. If you don’t know what it is, here’s a short description:
It’s a handheld, solid state, 2GB capacity video capture device. It captures 640×480 video at 30fps. There is a 1.8″ LCD screen […]

I recently arrived back from an almost two-week vacation down to Myrtle Beach and Disney World. While not completely “off the grid”, aside from a daily email check and a couple of blog comments, I pretty much unplugged. I gave the camera a decent workout with a few hundred snapshots just downloaded onto the pc […]

Woohoo! Congratulations to the RawStudio guys for getting 0.7 out today!
RawStudio is the application I use to convert my RAW photos (.CR2 files from my Canon Rebel XT) into jpegs. I love this application because of the way it streamlines the raw conversion workflow for me. It’s interface is logical and well thought out and […]

Typically I’ve always used F-Spot to transfer the photos from my DSLR to my hard drive. I like the way it arranges my photos: /home/user/photos/yyyy/mm/dd.
However, I don’t use F-Spot for managing my photos. There are various reasons for that and I’m pursuing the use of IPTC data for tagging the photos directly (and not using […]

On a recent TechGuy podcast I heard about this Eye-Fi Wireless SD card that comes with built-in wi-fi capability. Yes wi-fi right inside the SD-card!
So the gist of it is that you can transfer pictures to your pc or mac without even taking the card out of the camera. And this would be camera […]

Lifehacker seems to have it’s fair share of Linux related info lately which is nice. Something interesting spotted today was this article about Postr, which is a Gnome based application for uploading photos to Flickr. I’ve been using jUploadr for a while and it does work fairly well. But it would be nice to have […]