How to make a Button Set in the GIMP. Nice.
Solving Color and White Balance Problems: Using Levels – Works equally well in the GIMP too!
Slow Shutter Speeds and Long Exposure Photography – Here’s my tip. Hold the camera steady in your hands, suck in your breath and let it out slowly, hit the shutter. Hard to do, but easier with practise. Rick has a Sony F717 and took “infra red” photos with it in night-shot mode and a 5 1/4″ disk! Must try that!
Two on the iPod – Hacking iPod and iTunes, universal remote control, run Linux on it, put it in your car. Here’s a not very encouraging review of the iPod Photo from playlistmag. All I want is a device to store images while “out in the field” for extended periods so there are better suited products out there IMO.
A Killer Digital Lens – there’s so much happening in the digital camera world, it’s extraordinary!
Ken Rockwell updated with new stuff in the last month, including a review of the Canon 20D (and complains that sync speed is too slow) and an updated digital workflow article. Good thing he uses a Mac, “we just don’t have “computer” problems like that that people blindly using windows consider acceptable.” hehe.
Sandbags Everywhere
They’re all over the place but didn’t stop major damage to many shops and premises in the city center. I guess the road works didn’t make things any better for retailers or shoppers alike. Hopefully we won’t see floods as bad as that again this year. Did anyone see Clonmel on the news? Yikes! I had parked in places that were about 3 or 4 feet deep in water!
Lee Fields: Flooded
As usual, the Lee Fields flooded so I went out for a scout around. My shoes are sopping but I got a few good shots! At least others had fun in the water!
Photo Retouch Tutorials
Dealing with Mobiles
It’s in the humour category, but this thread is actually quite serious. Motorists talking on their phone are a serious threat to everyone around them.
If I find a driver using his phone at the head of the queue waiting at the lights, I position my bike in front of their car and wait for the lights to go green. When the inevitable blasts on the horn start up after the lights phase, I get off my bike, lay it on the ground and walk over to ask the driver to hang up his call. Can also be combined with method one, above.
If the driver ignores me (as is often the case) then I simply lift up the wiper blades on his windscreen, forcing him to pull over and get out to put them down again. It’s simple, not dangerous and doesn’t damage property in any way. For some reason, though – it really annoys them!
(Thanks Liam for the link!)
Liam posted these two links too.. guestbook entry and georgewbush.com for everyone outside the US!
Blarney This Way
I live that-a-way.
Site Updates
Working away at a new site design. I also made a few changes to the WordPress MU index.php and added a counter. With that you can do nifty things like adding a photo of the day
after the first post, or whatever. In my post.html I put the following:
{if $count == '0'}
{photoblog msg='' randmsg=''}
{/if}
I really need somewhere to put my “pic of the day”. It’s annoying putting it in-between posts. More reworking of code later possibly.
Anyway, after yet-another-aborted-attempt at another design for this site, I’m drooling over the designs at zengarden. Someone slap me!
Flooding in Cork
I survived the worst weather in 40 years. Driving through Cork City last night was a challenge. Roads were flooded, traffic was backed up, and while I was stuck on Mc Curtain St. for half an hour I saw that the Everyman Theatre is playing, “Singing in the Rain” right now.
This morning the weather turned again, and the sun is shining, there’s a nice breeze and blue sky is visible through white clouds.
No, I don’t have photos of the floods, I was inside, warm, enjoying dinner and good company!
Some great pictures of the 2009 floods are on Brian Clayton’s post.
PHP, MySQL, and Smarty Programming
Looks like a very basic introduction and tutorial on using PHP and related technologies. Worth reading for the newbies!
iPod, uPod, we allPod
While Mark is rubbing his hands in glee playing with his new computer, Apple released the new iPod. At $600 the price’s a little steep and makes the iRiver H320’s $299 price tag look a lot more attractive. I can squirt photos on to both, and I doubt I’d be away from a PC long enough to fill the 20GB capacity of that device with images.
Metafilter discussion here, along with some insightful comments and links.
I mentioned the H320 before: 1 2
Bah. That U2 iPod is ugly. I am going to buy some sort of mp3 player soon to take jogging and with me to work, I haven’t decided what to get. I do not think I want to buy an iPod, I do not like the looks of them, I have no interest in iTunes and the damn aac files.
Later… Hehe, User Friendly is funny.