Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

After a year or so of “not so good” webcam reliability, Alan Jones (Fredericksberg Virginia, USA), asked me to assist. We had a quick gloss over the issues on iChat video conference and then got down to business. The problem as usual was the local network and the html for the webcam page. We needed [...]

Well the geek in me could not rest until I had built a Widget for OS X Tiger for our Blog. So here it is, all shiny and new. You will get a brief of the last 5 most recent blog entries. Download, double click to unzip, then double click the Widget to install. Download [...]

With most inkjet printers used by photographers it has been difficult to calculate the cost of ink per photograph. An information panel in the Epson printer utility keeps track of the total ink use per color for each of the last 10 prints. This is handy when a large print job comes up and you [...]

I am getting a bit bored with the DRM thing that the Europeans are going on about. I figure they are steamed up about a perceived lack of competition in the sale of Mp3 players. Perhaps the only reason iPod’s are selling so well because of some lack of competition. These “suits” are sick of [...]

After having been amazed and excited by Steve Jobs demonstration of the Apple iPhone, some industry analysts have been critical of the the lack of support for 3rd party application developers. I for one would be more than happy with the applications that it ships with now and I am sure Apple has some great [...]

A recent blog entry by Daring Fireball reminded me of the need for good User Interface design. The story is one about the surprise in the Mac “Address Book” that allows you to sort updated vCard information. When confronted by what appears to be a tedious task just do the obvious first and see what [...]

Some of the text from this case makes for interesting reading. Seems the “bribe” allegations against some industry analysts have been substantiated. I often wondered how those crazy software comparisons were justified in a journalistic sense. Analysts are people who are paid to take a stand, while always trying to appear to be disinterested observers [...]

Leo Dale asserts that his new MacBook has made his G5 PowerMac Dual 1.8 GHz obsolete. He is putting it up for sale, very soon. All due to the incredible speed of the MacBook. Leo runs a small home recording studio and employs Logic Pro to record and mix. In his testing using identical files [...]

Finally got time to complete the CSS rebuild for our own site. Still some bugs to be found and could do with some refining, but we will get to that soon. Any comments will be appreciated.

After years of plodding along with an old barge of a PC on AOL dialup, Chris at Artistic Reflections attempts the big move to Mac OS X this week. As a high volume production picture framer Chris has invested in the latest technology for his high quality production factory from computer controlled mat cutting to [...]

This great article from Smashing Magazine. CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of [...]

Russell from Australian Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd has invited all to view special pricing on all Genuine Epson Wideformat cartridges. Click here to see their pricing.

It seems that the update to OS 10.4.8 has rendered EOS Capture useless. That is the one essential piece of Canon software I need, as do others. I use an Automater script to have Capture send files to Aperture. I can shoot to the card and download still but for studio portraits where the client [...]

I am just going to see how long it takes Petrina to notice, or to be alerted to this pic of her. When she is not cranky at me she can be quite attractive.

I was approached by this suit at The Esplanade today who reckons he can supply Ultrachome K3 for my Epson 4800 Pro at a very cheap rate. Nearly $100 off retail. Charlie Hu of infoMedia Australia (no site) said he will email me the price list tomorrow. Don’t hold your breath but if he does [...]