Kevin asks really great questions and made this interesting. I'm honored to have been chosen for this discussion. - Eric Florenzano
Nice interview with you Eric. Listened to it yesterday as I was hacking away at Pinax. It's always nice to put a voice to the avatar. :) - Greg Newman
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As for myself, I have used Adobe RAW Converter from Bridge. Also now trying to learn to use LightZone because it has different way of working methods. - Daniel Schildt
And yes, I have tested Adobe Lightroom and seen how things work in Apple Aperture. So far, everyone has their good and bad sides... - Daniel Schildt
One professional photographer friend have been saying that he tested Lightroom for while but found out that image quality was bad when compared to Aperture. He does stuff like magazine ads and billboards so RAW processing quality is one of the quite important things in editing of photos. - Daniel Schildt
I use Lightroom, which I think is essentially automating ACR behind the scenes. - Kenneth LeFebvre
Have any of you tested LightZone? If yes, what did you think of it? - Daniel Schildt
I installed a trial of LightZone once. Can't offer opinion, though, because it was just too different for me to take the time to really learn it... stuck with my tried and true methods with Lightroom. :) - Kenneth LeFebvre
I found it quite different also but liked way it handles editing with editable layers instead of making direct edits in to photos. While I was just learning it for about 5-6 hours it became to look quite useful tool. LightZone has it's limitations and one of those is that because it's made with Java it really takes resources of your computer (even while how fast that might be). Anyways, it has interesting way of working and applying those workflows to use of other software can create new way to work. - Daniel Schildt
"Are you sure you have Django in your python path? You might also need to
use Django trunk; I have not tested this using the version included in
Google App Engine (which is .96 and very far away from trunk). This link (
http://code.google.com/appengi......) tells you how to use
trunk on GAE.
Good luck!" - Benjamin Golub
thanks for the link. I was about to go looking for a way to use trunk with GAE - Greg Newman
Blah! lifetick sends your a confirmation email containing your full username and password. *sigh* Good thing it's a random one created just for this site... P.S. 1/2 the features are disabled unless you pay.. so this service isn't to helpful if your goal is "Save Money" - Czar
“I'm retweeting here because it's a backchannel. Bottom line: Could give a shit one way or the other about Plurk HOWEVER, I'm studying every word people say about it, how they say it, why they may being saying it. This is applied social right here baby. Deconstruct everyone.”
It should take you a full 3 minutes to fully grok Plurk, pros/cons/possibilities etc as well as like/dislikes. You know what it can and cannot be compared to and why and prolly spend time laughing at some of the outlandish things people are saying and nodding at some of the smart stuff. But you get over it, fiddle with it and move on and are fascinated with people watching. If so, you're like me. :) - Eric Rice
BTW, I think the biggest problem with the tech mind is trying to cope with a hierarchy of 'features' and yet, many things are dictated by the fuzzy notions of 'cool' and 'popular' and 'social'. Twitter, like many things, is technically retarded, but yet it wins because of an abstract thing. That's what's funny about how people view software from a tech minded perspective. heh. Sucks. - Eric Rice
Enjoying it so far, best bit is threaded direct replies just by clicking on the message in the timeline - Stephen B
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eric you're absolutely right that a service cannot be reduced to the sum of its feature set. i've worked on consulting projects where we've tried to boil the ocean for ideal features and construct, lego-style, the perfect service. that misses the fuzzy/vibe element which includes UI, timing, luck, accidents, endorsements and more - Baratunde Thurston
Quite right Eric. Plurk is a bit of fun and a good distraction but that's as far as it goes at the moment. I've said all along that I think it will be a hit with kids but I can't see it as a serious tool. - Colin Walker
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btw i spent 5 mins on pluck. liked the timeline view. hated the limited friendfiender import method (limited to MSN/Y/AIM IM buddies). like the ability to see convo threads easily. disliked that the timeline view seemed to be the ONLY interface offered for message navigation - Baratunde Thurston
Plurk is an example of the wrong way to launch a Twitter clone. - Karoli
It's just OK. I HATE the timeline. There's no good way to import followers from twitter or pownce. Emoticons are too cute and not necessary. It makes it too much like IM. On the good side, i like that it supports groups for friends. - Greg Newman
If enough geeks hate it, maybe it will be a huge hit in the mainstream? ;) - Eric Rice
Heh, if it actually worked in my browser I might consider it a service worth talking about. - Daniel Andrlik
Why do developers assume my social network participation centers around my email address? Isn't part of the point to interact with others without giving away my email address? Let me add twitter contacts instead. - Karoli
I use labels in Adobe Bridge to mark the "state" of the photos - "Selected and need to be processed", "Processed maybe will upload", "Ok to upload" and "Uploaded" - Yaniv Golan
I publish to flickr and zooomr. I use a smart album in Aperture to show me all photos with 3 stars or higher that do NOT have keywords "flickr" and "zooomr". Once I export the photos to my upload folder, I tag them with "flickr" and "zooomr". One day I am going to write a blog post about managing workflow with Aperture. - Jeremy Brooks
With the FlickrExport plugin for Aperture by Fraser at connectedflow.com, it tags the photos with the flickr image id so it knows that it's been uploaded already. If you need to replace the image it will upload a replacement instead of a new image. Pretty handy! - Greg Newman
In Lightroom, I mark the photos I upload to Flickr 'green'. 'Blue' means its processed and ready to upload or print. - Bryan Villarin
I have them in folders "to be uploaded" and "uploaded" I pull from the "to be uploaded photos" and then manually move them over to the uploaded. Occasionally I'll screw up. With flickr though you can click on the date and it will show you all photos taken on that day. Dupes are easy to spot there. - Thomas Hawk
Because I store my originals as either RAW or PSDs, and Flickr requires JPG, I just created a local folder hierarchy that mirrors my Sets in Flickr and when I Export from Lightroom, I send it to that Flickr folder where I upload it. - Kenneth LeFebvre
I use collections in Lightroom for the various sites where I publish my photos. I have a Flickr collection, for example, so that I know which photos are up there already. - Raoul Pop
I tried using a startpage, but it seems to hurt more than help. I can keep up with everything using Google Reader, Remember The Milk, GMail and FriendFeed. I somtimes use Prism to run them separate from my main browser. - Rahsheen ™
I use toolbar links to del.icio.us tags as start pages. I have a netvibes dashboard for work feeds (which is not a start page). Muck with google/ig but never got much use out of it. - Ashton
I stick with google.com for my start page, mostly because it loads really quickly and is typically where I'm headed anyway :) - Brett Kelly
My favourite start page is about:blank, which won't distract me from the thing I intended to do in the browser. - Jeroen Sangers
Other... the browser session will resume me back to what I was browsing. So, hopefully I'm never 'starting' at the beginning unless going full-circle. - Czar
Other... Pbwiki or more often just my bookmark toolbar folders - Andy Roberts
I use iGoogle for my main start page. It has Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Google maps, and Goggle Reader on it. - Michael Ramm
FireFox extention "Morning Coffee" which opens my Gmail, 30Boxes, RememberTheMilk, Google Reader, Facebook, FriendFeed and some metrics about http://42Tags.com :) - Eitan Burcat
Eitan, why 30 Boxes and not Google Calendar? - Bill Bittner
Morning Coffee on both Firefox and Flock browsers. On Flock for news, social stuff in early am, then to Firefox with wiki, blog, Zoho and gtd stuff when it's time to focus on work. - Ro (Lilyhill)
I started with igoogle but decided a start page didn't work for me. I typically open MySocial24X7 in the sidebar, email then gReader as my startup - Dave Ploch
using netvibes as my startpage. On it I also got a tab with favourites, so I can acces them everywhere. Set up my netvibes as my main source of information. My public universe can be found here; http://www.netvibes.com/marcel... - Marcel van der Laan
I have Google Finance & Google Reader on tabs as my Start page - viki saigal
iGoogle for me, but I'm guilty of not optimizing it to the degree I should. I do have weather/movie times/news, but those are kinda basic. - Stellina
Really like Netvibes, wish I would find it more useful, but just doesnt work for me - gets too cluttered. Instead I have RTM and Greader as two-tap FF start pages. - Peter Efland
I use iGoogle with RTM, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, GCal, GReader on the main page. - David Finch
I don't know why I feel a big ego by hanging my own work - Greg Newman
Mostly, the images of our own that we've framed are ones with our children in them... displaying my kids is a different kind of pride than ego. :) - Kenneth LeFebvre
You're right Kenneth. Family and kids are a no-brainer and should be hung. - Greg Newman
I have a few photos framed. I bought an Epson R2400 to do more with printing. But I've been lazy. I bought these two giant pieces of board to do some collages of 4x4 prints but still haven't tackled that one yet. Hopefully more in the future. - Thomas Hawk
I have one of mine in my office, poster size. I have a few others around the house, both my photos and photos and artwork from others that inspire me. - Jeremy Brooks
I have one wall taken up with the better shots of the kids. Apart from that, I tend not to print my photos. - Victor
I have 3 of my photos framed in my house, I sometimes forget I took them! - Edward Barnieh
I have 7 photos framed in my home. All of them are shot by me, I plan to have one framed photo from each of my travel trips :) in future - sanyam
Bookmarklet that I wrote for automatically expanding all comments on FriendFeed. - Eric Florenzano
I'm surprised that nobody's liking this. Maybe nobody else minds expanding the comments? - Eric Florenzano
That's going to be a handy bookmarklet Eric, thanks. - Greg Newman
Yep, handy. Couldn´t you make it toggle the comments ,though ? So that when you click the bookmarklet after you´ve expanded all comments it would collapse them again ? - peter huesken
“...what are some of the best ways to clean a lens? Specifically after a foray to the beach. The "camera side" of the lens is fine, but I would like to get the lens cap side cleaned up a bit.”
I would use a blower brush. You can get them at most local camera shops - Greg Newman
Thanks...will do. Any good way to get finger smudges off a lens? Gotta love three yr. olds who like to touch the camera when you snap a shot of them. - JA Castillo
How did you get your image to show Kenneth? I tried (Attitude!) and used the FF bookmarklet and it didn't work for me. - Greg Newman
It took me a bit of figuring out too Greg, but if you move your mouse over an image when you clicked the FF bookmarklet there is a blue square around the image and when you click it it's included. I only found out after watching the movie tutorial ;) - Kenneth Verburg
that worked like a charm. thanks Kenneth! Mystery no more. - Greg Newman
You can also add multiple photos. Just keep clicking. - Russellreno
try to upload 20-50 photos a day. But sets are harder because you have to build them around themes. - Thomas Hawk
i try to upload one photo a day, heheh and i dont achieve that work stands between me and my camera - Oscar Juarez
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Thomas, I have to ask. What's going on with you and Zooomr these days? Inquiring minds want to know! - Mike Doeff
Mike, Zooomr's still moving along. Kris is in Japan working on it from there. I upload to both Flickr and Zooomr every day. Kris recently said he's working on upgrading groups on Zooomr. - Mrsth
Yes thomas give us some news about zoomr ! - arnet
When did you upload your first set Thomas? - Joe Dawson
Not sure which set I uploaded first. My flowers set I think, early 2005? - Thomas Hawk
how many do you plan to have in each set Thomas? - Greg Newman
no set goal there Greg, but each as large as possible. Certain sets will become printed collage installments later on in life. My largest set right now is my 10 faves or more set with 1,666 photos in it. - Thomas Hawk
