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Resurrecting Apple I BASIC {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 15th 2008 1:07PM When my family visited Art Schawlow at Stanford in the early 80's, he showed us an Apple I that he kept under a table in his office. Although I don't think his computer had the classy cut-out "backsplash". He told me that he provided some suggestions for improvements to its inventors and builders.
Don O'Shea
Hands-on with the Panasonic DMC-LX2 {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2006 3:55PM Amen to the lack of viewfinder!
I will NEVER buy a camera that does not have an integral viewfinder. In less than perfect light conditions the lever arm (literally!) can defeat even the best anti-shake compensation.
Optical Design Principle #1: Never use software to accomplish something that can be done by hardware.
Interlink Electronics unveils Bluetooth ExpressCard Media Remote {Engadget}
Sep 8th 2006 2:33PM All I want is an Expresscard adapter for SD cards! Surely there's enough pent up demand to make a decent profit on it!
Canon gets official with their 400D / Rebel XTi DSLR for Photokina {Engadget}
Aug 24th 2006 1:44PM Singular: lens; plural: lenses
HDR -- High Dynamic Range Photography -- in a nutshell {The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog}
Aug 4th 2006 10:07AM I read the Time piece and looked at the accompanying links (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/technology/03basics.side.html). It is worth the time.
Not being a tripod toting type, I opt for viewfinder cameras with image stablization, but I can appreciate the HDR technique.
Perhaps THE most impressive thing about that piece was a link to Sean McHugh's gallery of breathtaking photos of Cambridge at: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/cambridge-gallery.htm. We all have a lot of things to do these days, but a trip to this site is worth it.
Put your Mac to sleep fast {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 6th 2006 9:19AM For those with G5s and Apple displays, you just touch the power light on the front of the display. I still find that SO neat!
Casio introduces 7.2 megapixel Exilim EX-Z70 {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2006 11:12PM So you have all this pixel real estate, no stabilization, and no viewfinder. In low light...BLURRR!
Dan Lurie Incoming {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 11th 2006 11:32AM Eek!
"eke"
Slainte,
Don
Seasonality 1.3 {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 6th 2006 3:53PM Granted, we're retired, but I would think even X'ers might find Seasonality attractive. Along with local weather, we have entries for all grandbaby locations and I have a slot for a Pacific Northwest city where the staff that run a journal I edit are located.
If you do any work in cyberspace, Seasonality is nice utility to have for interest and commiserating with your farflung colleagues.
Pentax Optio A10 8 megapixel shooter reviewed {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2006 6:24PM Lemme say it as clear as I can, no amount of electronic displays or electronic jiggery-pokery is gonna make up for a lack of a viewfinder on a digital camera. By eliminating the viewfinder that allows most mortals to stabilize the platform with a nearly-zero lever arm the designers of these cameras add to it another instrument of the devil comparable to the digital zoom.
And the worse your inability to focus on close objects, the longer the distance between your eyeballs and the camera display resulting in pictures that deny all the resolution you paid for to get many megapixels.
Buy a good digital camera that has image stabilization and with the optical zoom that you require and make sure that it has a VIEWFINDER!
Regards,
Don O'Shea
Editor, Optical Engineering
