The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard. Nick Carr comments on Google’s Web 3.0, pointing out the fact that Web 3.0 was supposed to be about the Semantic Web, or, as he puts it, the first step in the Machine’s Grand Plan to take over. For all the numbers we flash about there […]
Month: August 2007
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SnagIt equivalent for Mac
I love SnagIt for the PC. I’m using it for this book, and I’ve included a description of it in the book, as one of the tools covered. It’s a great screen capture tool. Only problem: no version for the Mac. Does anyone have any suggestions for a comparable tool for the Mac? Other than Grab? What […]
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Raw shoots
I’m looking at various RAW editors, including UFRaw and Adobe’s Camera RAW but also downloaded a copy of RawShooter 2006. The company that produced this tool, Pixmantec, is no more having been bought about by Adobe. However, the tool can still be downloaded, though the registration process fails each time you open it. A minor […]
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Lasting stuff
This is the slow dissolving, long lasting stuff edition: Photography is dead. From Erwins Home: The essence of film-based photography is not only the fact that the mechanism of capturing an image and fixing it in a silver halide grain structure creates a final picture that can hardly be altered. The fundamental issue here is the fact […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Missouri folks: rest of you close your eyes Missourinet posts a note that Lorna Domke from the Department of Conservation is starting a weblog. One of her first stories is on Pickle Springs. (Remember when I wrote on Pickle Springs? Back, when I used to have a life?) Ms. Domke does need to find her […]