Video
James Dempsey and the Breakpoints
2008-06-28
Illicit footage from WWDC on YouTube: James Dempsey and the Breakpoints singing Release Me, I Love View, and Designated Initializer.
It's probably the best-kept secret of WWDC: all the sessions are set to song. I hope someone posts Bertrand Serlet's crooning.
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Cocoaheads Video Now Available Via Torrent
2008-05-21
Scott Stevenson (above) has posted videos from the May CocoaHeads. They're available via a torrent as well. The main topic was a rapid introduction to Cocoa.
CocoaHeads Silicon Valley continues to draw good attendance. I'm sure that the WWDC meeting will be packed just like it was last year.
Aperture 2.0: All The Video Links In One Place
2008-02-12
I've collected all the links for the Aperture 2.0 videos together in one place for convenient clicking. If you use Firefox you will be able to download everything for offline viewing with a tool like FlashGot.
Adjustment Tools
Platform Integration
Customizing the Keyboard
Importing Basics
Tethering
Using Aperture and iPhoto Together
Making Multiple Selections
Using the Loupe Tools
Using the Zoom Tool
Using Quick Preview
Using the Sort Tool
Applying Ratings
Using Compare Mode
Using Stacks
Using Stack Mode
Assigning Keywords
Viewing Multiple Displays
Filtering and Searching in Aperture
Skimming All Projects
Creating Albums and Smart Albums
Using Light Tables
Using RAW Fine Tuning
Cropping and Straightening
Adjusting White Balance
Adjusting Exposure
Recovering Highlights
Enhancing Your Images
Setting Levels
Setting Advanced Levels
Adjusting Highlights and Shadows
Improving Color
Using the Retouch Brush
Applying Vignette and Devignette
Applying Black & White and Color Effects
Sharpening Images
Using Lift and Stamp
Editing Metadata
Adjusting Date and Time
Embedding and Exporting Metadata
Exporting Versions, Masters, and Projects
Making Prints and Contact sheets
Making Books
Creating Web Pages
Creating Web Galleries
Creating Slideshows
Using Export Plug-ins
Exploring Presets
Using Aperture and iPhoto Together
Creating Advanced Slideshows with Keynote
Making Photo Movies with iMovie
Accessing Aperture through Leopard
Quick Tours
Streamlined UIAdjustment Tools
Platform Integration
Tutorials
Exploring the InterfaceCustomizing the Keyboard
Importing Basics
Tethering
Using Aperture and iPhoto Together
Making Multiple Selections
Using the Loupe Tools
Using the Zoom Tool
Using Quick Preview
Using the Sort Tool
Applying Ratings
Using Compare Mode
Using Stacks
Using Stack Mode
Assigning Keywords
Viewing Multiple Displays
Filtering and Searching in Aperture
Skimming All Projects
Creating Albums and Smart Albums
Using Light Tables
Using RAW Fine Tuning
Cropping and Straightening
Adjusting White Balance
Adjusting Exposure
Recovering Highlights
Enhancing Your Images
Setting Levels
Setting Advanced Levels
Adjusting Highlights and Shadows
Improving Color
Using the Retouch Brush
Applying Vignette and Devignette
Applying Black & White and Color Effects
Sharpening Images
Using Lift and Stamp
Editing Metadata
Adjusting Date and Time
Embedding and Exporting Metadata
Exporting Versions, Masters, and Projects
Making Prints and Contact sheets
Making Books
Creating Web Pages
Creating Web Galleries
Creating Slideshows
Using Export Plug-ins
Exploring Presets
Using Aperture and iPhoto Together
Creating Advanced Slideshows with Keynote
Making Photo Movies with iMovie
Accessing Aperture through Leopard
Aperture: A French Aperture Site
2007-09-22
I thought I knew all the Aperture sites by now, but this recently proved not to be the case. François Couderc emailed me to let me know that he has a French-language site dedicated to Aperture. It includes tutorials, a large number of videos, plug-ins, Automator workflows, and a forum. The other French-language site I know of is Aperweb.
Purple and Brown
2007-05-16
Thirty-two Purple and Brown shorts in about 16 minutes. If the style reminds you of Aardman Studios, that's because it is Aardman Studios.
The Cookie Monster From 1967
2007-04-30
Known then as "Arnold The Munching Monster", the Cookie Monster meets (and eats, of course), a talking machine. From an IBM training video, apparently.
Good Grief. What Is This?
2007-03-30
My account log showed an access from http://msdewey.ca/. So I went there to have a look. The site is Flash -- all Flash. Oh dear.
The person I found listening to music (non-white earphones, note) is, I presume, Ms. Dewey. She's bad-mannered, has a short attention span, talks on the phone, looks very bored, threatens me, stares at me a lot, and if I wait long enough does this weird super-villain laugh. It's freaky.
Oh, and it's a search engine. I type in penguins. Wait wait wait while she thinks and then talks (about nothing to do with penguins). And then some results come up:
Over two million hits! And no scroll bars. This is going to be interesting.
The URLs are not clickable. The text that falls off the right is not readable. But the titles in blue are, and sure enough I get a page about penguins. But it is in a new window, and so she is still talking. Scrolling is actually possible: putting the cursor in the fuzzy area at the bottom causes the text to scroll, but it gets stuck at times and there is no way to tell how far I have gone or have to go.
I notice a faint copyright in the bottom right: 2006 Microsoft Corp. Ah, I understand now. It's marketing. Your tax dollars at work.
How Canon Makes Lenses
2007-02-17
Kevin Smith Protests Dogma
2007-02-06
Kevin Smith, Director of Dogma, wanted to know a little more about the rumored demonstration by 1500 people outside a theatre showing his movie. Here he tells the story of how he and a friend went along to join the crowd.
How To Tell When A Relationship Is Over
2007-01-29
DepicT is a short film competition. Short here means ninety seconds or less. Above is one of the entries from 2003: How To Tell When A Relationship Is Over. You have until Monday September 3rd to send in entries for the 2007 competition.
802.11n For Home Video
2007-01-04
EETimes is reporting on the change in focus of the 801.11n wireless networking standard to home video. 802.11n is a high-speed, multi-channel version of the current WiFi standards, 802.11a, b, and g. All the current Macs have the hardware built in: it's just not enabled with drivers yet.
Broadcom Corp. and Atheros Communications Inc. raised eyebrows last January when they offered "draft" silicon for 802.11n, even though by year's end the IEEE working group had yet to finalize this standard. Almost as surprising as the early silicon for 802.11n was the fact that they emphasized consumer, rather than enterprise, applications on their Web sites.
No doubt driven by at least one huge customer knocking at their door: Apple with iTV and other products. Eventually Apple will set the standard protocol for wireless video delivery and then sell iTV to the display makers in an embedded form (how else will they differentiate themselves?). Like the connector on the iPod the wireless "connection" will be the key compatibility item that locks the competition out.
Broadcom Corp. and Atheros Communications Inc. raised eyebrows last January when they offered "draft" silicon for 802.11n, even though by year's end the IEEE working group had yet to finalize this standard. Almost as surprising as the early silicon for 802.11n was the fact that they emphasized consumer, rather than enterprise, applications on their Web sites.
No doubt driven by at least one huge customer knocking at their door: Apple with iTV and other products. Eventually Apple will set the standard protocol for wireless video delivery and then sell iTV to the display makers in an embedded form (how else will they differentiate themselves?). Like the connector on the iPod the wireless "connection" will be the key compatibility item that locks the competition out.
The Amazon Unbox
2006-09-09
Tom Merritt has experienced Unbox, the new movie download service from Amazon and he doesn't like it:
So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can't burn to DVD and can't watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry, Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend this service. Try again.
You would think that an internet retail pioneer would realize that there are no second tries, but somehow that has escaped them and they have rolled out this particularly odd way of losing customer loyalty and diluting their brand.
So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I can't burn to DVD and can't watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry, Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend this service. Try again.
You would think that an internet retail pioneer would realize that there are no second tries, but somehow that has escaped them and they have rolled out this particularly odd way of losing customer loyalty and diluting their brand.
Aperture Training Videos From Apple
2006-07-30
Thomas Pindelski's blog has a breakdown of what is presented in two training videos made available for free online to Aperture users.
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