David Woof » On the Web http://www.davidwoof.com/blog Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:30:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Useful Articles http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2009/02/03/useful-articles/ http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2009/02/03/useful-articles/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:52:42 +0000 Dave http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/?p=1055

This page has a few links to interesting articles around the interweb…

From Moose Peterson, a series of videos on cleaning various parts of your camera equipment:

David A. Zizer’s “Analysis of a Wedding” series:
I’ll be adding more of my favourite articles as time goes on…

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Here’s a list (for my own benefit, as much as anyone else!) of useful OS X software:

VLC – All round media player – useful for obscure formats, as well as everyday use. FREE

Handbrake – very good quality video converter. FREE

Firefox – alternative browser to Safari. FREE

Reveal – EXIF data viewer and editor. FREE

GPSPhotoLinker – takes GPX files from GPS trackers, and geo-tags RAW photo files. FREE

Transmission – BitTorrent client. FREE

Menumeters – system monitoring tools. FREE

Perian – Quicktime components for common (PC) video formats. FREE

Aperture Assistant – flowchart based image manipulation in Aperture.

Sofortbild – tethered shooting application for Nikon DSLRs. FREE

Adium – instant messaging client. FREE

AppTrap – application removal tool. FREE

Unarchiver – exactly what it says. FREE

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chase

Whilst it isn’t surprising that Chase has a huge number of contacts (after all, he invites us all to make him a contact on Facebook to follow his photography activities), it’s surprising to see that Facebook thinks there should be maximum number of friends we’re each allowed!

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]]> http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2009/06/25/facebook-decides-how-popular-you-can-be/feed/ 1 The Interconnectedness of All Things http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2009/02/20/the-interconnectedness-of-all-things/ http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2009/02/20/the-interconnectedness-of-all-things/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:38:09 +0000 Dave http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/?p=560 After an interesting meeting today, I thought I’d do a mini-audit of how all the Web 2.0 applications I use are currently connected and configured, and was quite intruiged to find the following:

So, assuming anyone following me is doing so through one of three channels…

  1. Facebook
  2. Twitter
  3. This blog (via RSS feeds)

…then you should be able to see pretty much everything I am posting (with the blog offering a more formalised feed, effectively with me selectively filtering the information). Facebook & Twitter will give the “warts ‘n’ all” view on what I’m up to.  So, the question is, can this be simplified/optimised.

e.g. Posts to Flickr eventually make their way to Facebook twice, but the post coming via Twitter doesn’t show the image, whereas the direct link from Flickr to Facebook will show a thumbnail in my news feed.  Removing either will therefore either result in a less-pretty news feed on Facebook, or no Flickr info on my Twitter feed.  Rock and a hard place…!

Similar problem with the blog feed, as the direct link from the blog to Facebook gives a nicer post than the one coming via Twitter, but I don’t want to lose the blog posts going on the Twitter feed…

So, can anyone offer any thoughts on improvements to this data flow?

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]]> http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/10/15/october-wordle/feed/ 0 Flying Start Magazine Tearsheet http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/04/05/flying-start-magazine-tearsheet/ http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/04/05/flying-start-magazine-tearsheet/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:22:51 +0000 Dave http://www.davidwoof.com/?p=221 One of the photos from a photoshoot I did a couple of weeks ago for a local solicitor has been used in their listing in “Flying Start Magazine”. It’s a small image, but every bit of exposure helps! The original listing can be seen in context here:

http://www.flyingstartmagazine.co.uk/…/family_law_mediation

UPDATE: Since I first wrote this, Flying Start have stopped running that page.  I’ve left the link, just in case they every reinstate it.

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]]> http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/04/05/flying-start-magazine-tearsheet/feed/ 0 Photoshop Express – Not all it’s cracked up to be? http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/03/27/photoshop-express-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/ http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/03/27/photoshop-express-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:56:55 +0000 Dave http://www.davidwoof.com/?p=210 Well, Adobe appeared to do the world a favour today, by launching its free, on-line (albeit cut down) version of Photoshop.

But, things aren’t always as they seem…The terms & conditions have got a rather important point embedded within, which essentially says that Adobe can do what they like with your pictures (you effectively granting them the rights to do so by simply agreeing to these conditions). Is this yet another instance of users of services inadvertently giving away the rights to their images by not examining the small print? Adobe additionally state that they will have the right to “derive revenue” from your photos. i.e. quite simply, if its any good, they can sell it, and you won’t necessarily see a penny.

Read on for more details…The full set of terms & conditions can be examined here.

The offending clause is….

“8. Use of Your Content.a. Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.”

So, be very aware of how you use this!

Of course, I could just be being a tad negative and paranoid, but quite simply, it wouldn’t have hurt them NOT to put the above clause in the Ts&Cs…

Would it?

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]]> http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/03/27/photoshop-express-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/feed/ 2 The Moment It Clicks http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/03/09/the-moment-it-clicks/ http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/03/09/the-moment-it-clicks/#comments Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:16:48 +0000 Dave http://www.davidwoof.com/?p=170 A top recommendation for the following book from Joe McNally – “The Moment It Clicks”.

If you only buy one photography book, it has to be this one.

He gives a great, no nonsense description of how he made his shots, generally with an interesting little anecdote first.

A great read, and some priceless advice.

Buy it now!

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]]> http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2008/03/09/the-moment-it-clicks/feed/ 0 UK invades California in cyber MMORPG wargame http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2007/06/18/uk-invades-california-in-cyber-mmorpg-wargame/ http://www.davidwoof.com/blog/2007/06/18/uk-invades-california-in-cyber-mmorpg-wargame/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:14:03 +0000 Dave http://www.davidwoof.com/?p=99 Interesting post on this year’s CWID can be read at the Register.

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Online Survey Powered by Qualtrics Survey Software.
A Qualtrics.com Company for Enterprise Feedback Management.

…for my data gathering. Experience so far shows that these guys are extremely helpful!

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