I use Adobe Lightroom as my primary image management software on both the PC and Macintosh. One of my persistent frustrations has been the “creeping slowness” issue, especially on an extended shoot. For instance, on day one of my trip to Africa last year, my catalog had about 8000 images and was nice and speedy. …
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Apr
06
My personal cloud-tag, courtesy of Wordle
[singlepic id=20 w=550 h=500] Many thanks to my buddy Luciano Tourn for his blog post on Wordle, the cool java app that produces these tag clouds..
Apr
02
Yes, there really is a laser in a Laser Printer (Photos)
Ever wonder why the word “laser” is in the term “Laser Printer”? Is it an actual laser, or is this just some gimmick to sell more printers? To find out, I painstakingly disassembled the guts of a 1990′s era Apple Laserwriter 16/600 printer. My approach: keep removing hunks of metal, motors and plastic until I …