March 11th, 2010
Steve Chapman’s (panocamera.com) Nintendo DS Camera Controller which I purchased awhile ago has been open sourced as Open Camera Control.
Palm has released the beta version of the native Plug-in Developer Kit (PDK) for the Palm Pre, though unfortunately they don’t have support for Linux yet.
I finally got around to completing the assembly of the Camera Axe I got for Christmas.
Seems like I’m constantly tinkering with site updates I added 29 new images to my galleries and Fotomoto released their API last month which I integrated with SimpleViewer.
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January 28th, 2010
As this is an update to an existing post I will dispense with a basic introduction. The major difference between this post and the previous is that the new version uses Actionscript 3. Here is the deep linking example of SimpleViewer 2 and SWFAddress 2.4.
What you will need to download:
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Tags: coding, deep linking, deeplinking, flash gallery, simpleviewer, swfaddress
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December 23rd, 2009
SimpleViewer 2
SimpleViewer 2 has been released and I will have an update of my SimpleViewer SWFAddress code shortly. Most of the code is done – I just have to do some testing. You can check out a preview example here. Update: the post has is up here.
Borrowlenses.com
I recently rented a lens from Borrowlenses.com and over all it was a good experience, but there were a few issues. They have strict address requirements, which in some ways are understandable based on the value of the gear. This does however limit shipping to basically your business or home via FedEx with a signature requirement, no hotels and no P.O. Boxes. The other issue was that the lens was sent to me very dirty, good thing Photoshop can fix it, but still would be nice if had been cleaned before it was sent.
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Tags: Review, simpleviewer, swfaddress
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July 30th, 2009
July has been full of projects in all shapes and sizes and a few have finally dwindled to a close, so that now I can no longer put off another post. I have long been curious about Centralia, and over the 4th I was in Pennsylvania so we took some time to satisfy my curiosity. Only a few buildings are left. Mostly it consists of empty lots and withering asphalt. The mine still burns, evidenced only by tendrils of smoke, a few residents remain and it has become a drive-through curiosity.
A sad old road.
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Tags: abandoned, Centraila, Photography, Train
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June 9th, 2009
As a majority of internet users are at this very moment in the process of uploading a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to Flicker, I will assume that most of you know what they are. For those few who do not know, simply put, they are a mapping of several images of the same subject consisting of variable exposures merged together using a piece of software such as Photomatrix. This process allows your to achieve neutral exposures throughout the image and otherwise improbable/impossible images with tone mapping.
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Tags: HDR, High Dynamic Range, Photography, technique
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May 15th, 2009
SimpleViewer is an flash gallery that has gained some popularity on the net. Like with anything in this world of ours, it has strengths and weaknesses. It’s primary strength is that it allows people who do not know a lot about flash to set up a flash gallery. One of it’s weaknesses is that it does not handle deep linking in flash. Adding deep linking to SimpleViewer allows you to link to an individual image within the gallery instead of just being able to link to the base Flash movie clip. In this article I will show you how to add deep linking to SimpleViewer using SWFAddress.
With the integration of SWFAddress, the browser history will update every time you click a thumbnail, allowing for the use of the browser’s back button. You also get a nice clean URL, and the updating of the URL allows users to link to individual images which wouldn’t be possible otherwise.
I will be focusing on a Multiple galleries example, but you could easily adapt this if you only have one gallery.
Here is an Example of the finished working code or you can check out my galleries.
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Tags: coding, deep linking, flash gallery, simpleviewer, swfaddress
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May 14th, 2009
It’s hard to believe it has been several weeks since my last post. My lovely wife, CSS Guru and design wizard, has been rocking the site redesign with a little help from yours truly. We are very close to being finished, a little tweaking here and there, some gallery changes and finishing up the purchasing implementation. I channeled my inner e.e. cummings for my artist statement I hope you like it.
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April 24th, 2009
The Strobist Lighting Seminar DVD is a set of 8 DVDs by David Hobby, released about a year ago in May of 2008. Essentially it consists of one DVD on equipment, 4 DVDs of a taping of his Strobist lighting seminar and 3 DVDs of example shoots. His method of lighting is quick and dirty, done with Speedlight flashes often in nontraditional ways.
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Tags: DVD, Lighting, Review, Seminar, Strobist
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April 17th, 2009
For someone in their late twenties and an avid technophile, I tend to have a “get off my lawn!” approach to the social web. That may just be the anti-exhibitionist in me. Twitter, Myspace, Facebook… corporatized reverse-stalking time sinks. Even blogs up until this point have not held a lot of interest for me. Lately though I have had some things on my mind to share, so without much fanfare or further ado welcome to my blog and my first post. In the works I have a post on SimpleViewer and SWFAdress integration, and a couple of reviews of lighting materials.
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