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Archive for March, 2005

Photos: Acadia, day 1

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

I just posted the first set of pictures from my fall trip to Acadia. They’re from the first day of my trip.
Here’s a preview:
The tall bridge to Acadia
Entering the park
Pale trees, colorful leaves
A big hill
Ocean waves pounding the rocky shore
You can see a lot from the top
The sunset begins
Sunset, part 2
The sunset was amazing, [...]

Announcing CameraHacks.com!

Friday, March 18th, 2005

CameraHacks has just been officially launched!
Camera Hacks is a brand new community website to share information in the form of original tips, tricks, tutorials, and links to useful webpages for everyone with a camera.
Anyone can sign up and submit content; it’s a community weblog that I set up for sharing information about photography. Check [...]

Little creature wandering through the snow

Friday, March 11th, 2005

This past evening, I was walking toward my car and spotted a poor little creature walking around through the piles of snow. My initial reaction was compassion toward what I thought was a stray cat left out in the freezing weather.
I crossed the street, slowly walking closer to the little furry animal.
In the darkness [...]

How to cope with massive amounts of email

Friday, March 11th, 2005

Have a lot of email? Don’t know what to do? Put off reading your massive stash of messages right now and read an informative article entitled Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload from Harvard (just right down the street).
It begins with great examples of how to improve your own email and then launches into how [...]

Shoot the sky!

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

The project is simple:
Take a foto of the sky on the 11th of March and send it to sky@unmotion.com.
Sky 2 project wants people to send in a picture of the sky no matter the location nor time on the face of the Earth… and they want everyone to snap a picture tomorrow.

Getting Firefox to mimic Opera, IE, Safari, a GNOME application

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

First there was the project to get Firefox to be a total drop-in lookalike for Internet explorer, and now there’s FirefoxOpera, a project that makes Firefox look and almost like Opera.
Also of note: Safari-Look for Firefox coupled with Fusion
(for the progress bar in the URL area), Firefoxy (for nicer form wigets), and Metallifizer for the [...]

Scribbling to color: a great way to colorize black and white photography and video

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

A recently released paper demonstrates a stunning technique: color from black and white with a few scribbles!
This is really nifty stuff and makes me wonder how long it will take before:
# This shows up in a Gimp plugin
# Ted Turner gets his hands on this and start releasing new colorized movies
# Someone makes an all-color [...]