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Geotag your DSLR images using your iPhone GPS and a Mac
Geotag images using an iPhone
One of the nice things about modern camera phones and even some regular cameras uses GPS to tag photos and embed the coordinates in the pictures EXIF data. But wouldn’t it be great if you could do that with your fancy DSLR camera photos as well? Programs like iPhoto, Aperture and the upcoming Adobe Lightroom 4 can show you your pictures on a map. Many online photo sites like Flickr also uses the GPS data in the pictures to display them on a map. Continue readingUse ifttt to automate your online tasks
Automating my internet life with ifttt. if this then that
ifttt is a free internet service for automating a lot of stuff you do online. There’s often things that you do repeatedly, and ifttt is there to help. For example, when you write a new blog post, you want to post a link to Twitter and Facebook, and this is something that’s perfect for ifttt to do automatically. Continue reading
Asus PA246Q ProArt Professional monitor review
Asus PA246Q ProArt Professional monitor
To be able to really get the most out of your images, you need a color accurate monitor. You usually have to pay a lot of money to get a good monitor that’s factory calibrated and uses a IPS panel, a panel type that is better at showing correct colors than the more common (and cheaper) TN panels. But there are some reasonably priced monitors. One of them is the Asus PA246Q ProArt monitor. It’s factory calibrated and even ships with a printout of the calibration result from the factory. You can set the monitor to sRGB or Adobe RGB 1998 color space directly on the front controls of the monitor. It’s also has fairly high resolution with 24″ size 1920×1200 pixels.Continue readingIPad first gen crashing
Hopefully Apple will fix this in the 5.1 update, because it’s really handy to have automatic photo sync between my iPhone and iPad.
Update: After a day my iPad is back to crashing often. This is getting annoying.
Great video for learning strobist Canon EOS flash photography
People who use Canon cameras know the EF flashes can be a bit overwhelming trying to understand ETTL II, and how to compensate for background and foreground exposure. Setting up multiple flashes isn’t always easy either. Here’s a great video, explaining all the ins and outs of Canon EF flash photography.
Retina display on Mac
Retina display on Mac
After working with the iPad and iPhone and then sitting down at my computer working with InDesign, you quickly realize that the resolution of computer screens need to improve. I have a factory calibrated 1920×1200 pixel 24″ monitor and to see how the fonts are going to look, you need to zoom in. With twice the resolution that would not be a problem. Let’s face it, the iPhone 4/4s have higher resolution than the first couple of generations of laser printers. It’s unfortunate that Apple hasn’t put more effort into making OS X resolution independent. Doubling the resolution is a quick fix, but in the long run they have to step up to the plate and implement resolution independence.Blogging with Byword and Marked with WordPress
Byword and Marked
I just got Byword and Marked from the Mac App Store because I’m totally addicted to writing in Markdown. I didn’t like the predefined fonts, but found a great typeface called Droid Sans that you can download here.