Even if you’re not a photography nut, I think you’ll be interested in a topic that has many of us in a tizzy this week, and that’s the announcement by Apple that they are not doing any further development on their high end photo application, Aperture. Aperture is currently at version 3 with a bunch […]
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When a 200mm Lens Isn’t Really 200mm
I’m still having a ball with my new mirrorless camera (the Olympus OM-D EM-10). When I first started looking into this I mentioned that I was going to make the switch to my friend Diane. For some odd reason she trusts my judgment and said, “great, when you decide, let me know what to buy”. […]
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The Apple Contacts application isn’t really designed to handle how many different ways we have of contacting people these days. In particular it’s awful at handling couples in a single card entry. Let’s say you’re friends with Bob and Sally Schwinkendorf. You send them a holiday card every year so you want both of their […]
Continue readingMore Tag#476 Podfeet Speed Improvement, Leaf Antenna for Cord Killing, ProJive XLR, Intro to Programming Languages
How Steve and I are cord killing $10 at a time using a Leaf antenna. Turns out you can use an external mic to record to Recolive’s Multicam using the ProJive XLR from CableJive. Learn how I used Automator to launch all of my apps to create the live show. In Chit Chat Across the […]
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I am an amazing proof reader. I can spot a typo on a piece of paper that’s across a table from me and turned around, but I can never see typos in my own work. I can only think it’s an arrogance thing in my brain, that there’s no chance I would ever make a […]
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Steve and I are big fans of television and we really like the content we get from cable. We have 5 TVs, 3 of which have TiVos on them with cable cards so we can watch and record a ton of TV. We also like Internet TV content. We use Amazon Instant Video to rent […]
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Last week I talked about the awesome $5 app for the iPad (and iPhone) MultiCam from RecoLive that lets you record a multi-camera session using cameras on your iOS devices and Mac and even your desktop. I had one complaint that I wasn’t able to use an external mic, because Multi-Cam simply didn’t have an […]
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Every Sunday night between 4:30 and 4:45pm, I get ready to do the live show. It’s a pretty complex operation (I even have a diagram). Most of the hardware pieces are plugged in all the time, my microphone, my camera, and my Mac, but I run seven applications on my main Mac to get the […]
Continue readingMore Tag#475 WHILL, Olympus OM-D E-M10, RecoLive Multi-Cam, Smile Software and iOS 8
I was on the Pocket Show. Check out the Kick Starter campaign for the WHILL Personal Mobility Device. My journey from a DSLR to the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mirrorless Camera. Produce a Multi-Camera Shoot on an iPad for $5 with RecoLive’s Multi-Cam from recolive.com. In Chit Chat Across the Pond, Greg Scown, founder (along with […]
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I started in photography with a Minolta X700 in 1978. The day finally came when set aside my trusty camera for the sexiness of digital with the Nikon 950. I didn’t actually get rid of my Minolta because I loved it so much. Time marched on and I went through a series of point and […]
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