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Continue reading →: Smugmug Focus Group
At last night’s COBA meeting, Doug Quist mentioned that Smugmug is holding a focus group next week on March 16 in Mountain View. Natalie Moss is organizing the focus group, so if you want the opportunity to talk to the men and women behind smugmug, here’s your chance! Send an…
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Continue reading →: Google Calendar and Intelligent Assist
TechCrunch has details and screenshots of Google’s upcoming calendaring application, codenamed CL2. Aside from the typical Web 2.0 goodies, such as AJAX UI, feeds, integration with Gmail, and notifications, there’s a feature called Quick Add. Quick Add gives you a text box where you can type all the information about…
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Continue reading →: Ultimate Computer Desk?
I need a new computer desk for the house. Over the past two weeks, we’ve checked out the offerings at Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel, Design Within Reach, IKEA, and Craigslist. The price varies from cheap to wildly expensive. The DWR Pocket Desk is one of my favorites with its…
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Continue reading →: New Home!
Rae and I are about to become homeowners! I’ve been meaning to write this post for over a month now, but I wanted to wait until everything was signed, sealed, delivered, and closed. We began our house hunting search in earnest at the end of December. Throughout January, Rae and…
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Continue reading →: Spore
Games have certainly come a long way since Adventure on the Atari 2600! Saw this video via Eric. Like he mentioned, I said “Wow” several times while watching it. I liked the mix of game themes and melodies throughout the demo. The battle music early on harkened back to TOS!
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Continue reading →: March 2006 COBA Meeting
The March 2006 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-10:30 pm. PMA Roundup Uwe Steinmueller will give us a quick update on everything that was announced and displayed…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft Origami
Lots of buzz in the press about the products that Microsoft and Apple are going to release tomorrow, February 28th. People suspect Origami is a new device that’s bigger than a handheld computer yet smaller than a laptop. Leaked video of the device suggests that it can play movies, show…
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Continue reading →: Aperture 1.1 Details
Apple is showing off Aperture 1.1 at PMA this week. MacWorld has a good article detailing some of the new features. Better RAW decoding, sharpening, and noise reduction algorithms are the ones that I’m most interested in. I’ve been using Aperture for several projects the past couple of months. In…
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Continue reading →: Sierra Road
Felix has a great story about Sierra Road, the 3.8 mile, 1800 feet climb that pro cyclists raced up earlier this week during Stage 2 of the Tour of California. Having discovered the painful pleasures that is Redwood Gulch Road, I shudder at the thought of a climb twice and…
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Continue reading →: Canon Announcements
Canon announced some new products today in advance of the PMA conference. The 30D, not to be confused with their original consumer digital SLR, the D30, is a refinement of the EOS 20D. The 85mm f/1.2L Mark II lens updates the original 85mm f/1.2 lens with faster AF. Finally for…






