CS3 Is Watching Me!

More privacy invasions from Big Brother!

Dr Pimento forwarded me a link to this article from the ars technica website, concerning spyware from the statistics tracking firm OMNITURE which Adobe has been so kind to include in their Creative Suite Software.

Check it out.

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SanDisk SSD Solid State Drives

Don't buy that laptop just yet!

Within the next six months, NAND storage Flash Technology ( Solid State Hard Drives ) will be replacing those old fashioned spinning hard drives that you are used to. Faster data access and no moving parts ( think thumb drive on steroids ) from NAND flash technology will usher in a new level of performance, portability and durability for portable computing.

Check out the first wave of this proven technology coming to a laptop near you!

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Finding Your Way

Here is a nice little article with a few words of wisdom from Arno Rafael Minkkinen, a photographer and educator, courtesy of Bernhard Stocker's Austrian weblog.

"The Helsinki bus station theory"

(STAY ON THE BUS is excerpted from the commencement speech as delivered at the New England School of Photography in June 2004)

©Arno Rafael Minkkinen, 2006

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Great Camera Review On Photo Business Forum...

Canon VS. Nikon!

Too tired to post my own thoughts. Up all night doing some retouching zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Head on over to the Photo business Forum Blog to read a great article on the Nikon D3 and the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, it's a real fair comparison from someone who has both cameras and no horse in the race.

Link: Photo business Forum Blog

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NC Stock Images On Zenfolio

Bloggin Time!

During my extended vacation from blogging, I used a little of that time to re-size, watermark and uploaded larger images from the NC Stock Collection to my account on the Zenfolio site. I am still working on a few things ( key wording etc...) to get the images and the description info looking the way I want, but it's looking pretty good as of today. I really need to get descriptions back onto the images to identify the locations. For some reason, my file names were removed and replaced with a simple numeral? They were supposed to contain the file name, picture location and file number. Don't know whether or not I have missed an option during the upload process or if numerals as file names is all you are allowed to display. Let's hope not!

Also, worrying about image theft has never been a big concern, but having to put an obnoxious watermark on each of the photos was a painful, but necessary exercise. Without it, images get lost on an art director's hard drive, re - compressed or re-sized without the correct metadata and are never attributable to the photographer again. This loss of connection between the photographer and their copyrighted work can happen easily to any digitally distributed image without a visible watermark. Even so, I'm sure that I am not alone in saying that I still hate having to plaster my name and telephone number on the images........UUUGGGHHH!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey day!

Wishing everyone a happy holiday with family, friends and lots of yummy turkey! I will be enjoying the day without any camera geek talk or Microsoft bashing, but will return tomorrow with plenty more irritating banter, bad grammar and abysmal punctuation.

NOTICE: I am going to attempt to speed up the page load times with new Javascript code on the 'comments under post' hack that I installed last week. Wish me luck, I just bought a book on Javascript, so I don't really know jack about what I'm doing!

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