aiddy's not thought through thoughts
thoughts usually intended only for me
This is exactly the kind of thing I would have posted on my internal blog, except I'm no longer posting there. Maybe MB will pick this one up?
The real interesting thing is how I stumbled across it: via Scoble. How's that for the new world referencing the old?
Ye gads, two posts in succession with question marks in the title, whatever next? Maybe a return to a series of "The advantage of..." stylie posts.
Anyway, it appears, as reported by El Reg, that my beloved EOS 350D SLR has been replaced/usurped/obsolete-ified by the new EOS 400D with the following diffs:
The latter is the one that most appeals - mainly cause with fixed focal length lenses I'm changing between them a lot.
Humm. I wonder what this would do to second hand (or, as I once saw advertising cars of a small cuddly nature, "pre-loved") 350's? Maybe I could pick up a couple of extra 350 bodies for less than a 400 and keep the lenses attached...
Nothing yet on dpreview - it'll be interesting to read their take.
[Update: dpreview have some coverage]
Do you del.icio.us? Adobe do - check out del.icio.us/adobe
Here's some of my favourites:
Isn't it great to see corporations like Adobe engaging with social tools like del.icio.us?
This post is a blatant excuse to use Windows Live Writer, or rather to explain why I used it for that post. I gave up on Performancing because of a dozen or so 'some failure with an object thingy'-type messages too many. The nice thing about Performancing was the ability to compose off-line. Live Writer does that too, except it also lets you compose using the same styles as your blog. Even better, when it discovered that the blog platform I use didn't support uploading the map thumbnail, Live Writer popped up a little dialog that allowed me to specify an ftp site to use for the asset instead.
Niggles. I haven't found how to insert a <br/> rather than a <p></p> and Live Writer doesn't have a nice way to insert technorati tags. But then I guess they're the kind of thing the SDK is for... more on on10.net.
technorati tags: LiveWriter, Performancing, Tools
Continuing my irratic quest for consistant and standardised use of metadata in image applications (including online services) an update from the land of Vista (that's Vista as in the forthcoming version of Windows from Microsoft).
I've been playing with builds of Vista for quite a while, so it was great to see the Microsoft Photo team blogging about support for metadata in Vistas Photo Gallery applet. Not only is in-the-image-file metadata supported, but they're also going (or should I say have gone) with support for Adobe's XMP metadata standard.
For a quick example, here's my metadata test file in the Vista Photo Gallery...
The preview shows metadata from the file, and the keyword fields are exposed as tags. In addition, the Vista explorer also exposes the image metadata in the files properties...
Nice.
This is a personal blog for me, aiddy.
Stuff posted here represents my opinion on things mainly photo-related.
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Until recently I was the CTO of Global Graphics, now I'm working for Microsoft.
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