Canon CPS has been updated. Looks like a few good reads!
Fun Lovin' Criminals Play Cork
Fun Lovin’ Criminals will play in the Savoy, Patrick St. Cork on the 7th September.
Squeakland – computing for kids
Niall, who should know, says Squeakland is “incredible”. I haven’t tried it myself, but it’s described as “media authoring tool” and is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Unix! Check the “What is Squek?” page for more.
30 years ago this was a fantasy about how children would learn science and math some day on their own notebook personal “Dynabooks”. After many years of building and testing these ideas, today this scenario is real.
What is RAW?
What is Raw? This article goes in-depth into what raw photography is about and explains the advantage of having 12 bits of colour versus 8 bits in a jpeg file.
Panoramic Photos of Ireland
Here are a few shots from around Cork and Kerry which I have stitched together using Autostitch.
Click on any image for a larger version although the larger images have been saved at low quality setting to save on file space and bandwidth.
Cork City
Baile Na nGall
Field Near Youghal
The PC and the Mac – a love story
Here’s a cute animation. The love story of an office PC and a Mac!
Ballycotton on a Sunday
We took a trip down to Ballycotton this evening and met some friends down there for a leisurely walk. Here’s a few photos from the excursion:
Links Of The Day
- How to get that perfect shave – or go get a Turkish shave. Wet towel treatment, massage, and a cut-throat blade. Very relaxing up until the point the blade came out!
- Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb – or work smarter rather than harder.
- Eddie Hobbs a liar? – he certainly had his facts wrong about that Lidl opening in Trim. I still enjoy his show however! (via)
- 33 days to your dream job
- Improving your resume
- Lorelle has a great article about WPMU, WordPress.com and WordPress in general.
Photo Links of the Day
- 9 time-lapse photos of a flooding – first the road sinks, then it breaks, then it disappears!
- Ryan has great photos of the Cork Folk dance Fest, Halway Vintage Festival and UCC!
- The certain smile – everyone gives that cheesy smile when they see a camera these days. One up for the zoom lens brigade!
- DIY Photography on the cheap
- Depth of Field
- Infrared with digicams
- Infrared links
- DSLR DOF
- The writing on the wall for digital
- Hanging Panoramas
- Composition tips for non-photographers
- Here’s another sharpening method that’s new to me. Highlight different aspects of you photos using layer effects.
- AJAX based rss aggregator
- Merging two exposures
- Canon Digital Learning Center
- Photoblog Roundup
- Short Courses – camera, looks like it covers some interesting topics such as lenses, creativity,flash, macro..
WordPress MU Feedback
Matt took time out to update the feedback form in WordPress MU and WordPress.com today! Here’s a taster of what it looks like:
See the “Feedback” link above there? Hit that to send feedback to the admins of your WPMU site.
This is the feedback form that appears. It’s already being used on WordPress.com to great affect, reporting bugs and suggestions from users to the admins.
Thank you for your feedback. The great thing about this is that you can send feedback about the current page without disturbing what you’ve been doing. It’s sent to the server via an AJAX request and happens without refreshing the page!