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Ace
Ace
Four TD's In One Game - http://photobyace.blogspot.com/2008...
September 10, 2008 from What's in Ace's Face - Comment - Share
LOVE IT!!! - Tom
Becca
Becca
I really like that my new blackberry is shiny, but now I need to learn how to use it.
August 22, 2008 - Comment - Share
whoa, you got a blackberry?!?!?! I never would have guessed you'd be interested in one of those. - Tom
I agree with you Tom, I don't know who this is - Ace
I have used my last two phone to get sports scores, and for instant messaging. So far the instant messaging on the blackberry is enough of an improvement to make that worthwhile. I can't figure out how to get scores yet though. Maybe install an application which I don't know how to do yet. Another plus is my phone can now be used as a modem. So anywhere I go I can get internet on my laptop. Woot! - Becca
Justin Korn
Justin Korn
Share: What are your favorite Photography based blogs out there? (Author - Link)
July 22, 2008 - Comment - Share
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Stuck in Customs http://stuckincustoms.com/ - Alan Le
David Hobby - http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/ (a bit obvious I guess) - Janek Mann
Janek: I'm looking for the obvious and not so obvious. Also blogs that overlap with other topics are okay as well... - Justin Korn
Michael Calanan - http://calanan.com/ - Jason Carreira
[daily dose of imagery] http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/ - edythe
I just flickr search... does that count? - Mona Nomura
Maybe it's just me but I have trouble finding photography blogs that stick for me, with very few exceptions. I get bored with photo blogs (i.e. mostly photos, little commentary), photo technique blogs, photo equipment blogs, photography-as-art blogs, and I just don't care about photo industry blogs, etc. And for the record, yes, I know my own blog falls into one of those categories. :) The best ones for me, like Thomas Hawk's blog, cover photography from many diverse angles. - Michael Hocter
I love looking a good photo blogs and flickr. I wish I had a good DSLR I use to dabble in film photog. I was in right when the digital was taking over. I found that a good camera and some quick reading and you will take good pics. To take great pics you have to have the eye. - Blackopsmanners
http://www.twipphoto.com. Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay, et. al. The associated podcast is probably the main resource for me, but the blog also has good content. - Bill Crow
Can't believe no-one mentioned strobist - http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/ - Jason Carreira
good call on strobist - Damien Franco
jason carreira: :) someone did pretty early. - edythe
mandolux: http://www.mandolux.com desktop wallpapers, really, but great photos nonetheless - Trent Olson
A favorite pure photo blog... HELLO: http://www.mylalaland.com/hello... - Michael Hocter
Daily Walks (Diane Varner): http://www.dianevarner.com/ - Michael Hocter
Home of the Vain (sometimes NSFW): http://www.homeofthevain.com - Michael Hocter
Joe Reifer (Night Photography): http://www.joereifer.com/words... - Michael Hocter
This Week In Photography - http://www.twipphoto.com - Liana Lehua
Ride My Pony (NSFW): http://ridemypony.com - Michael Hocter
This Week In Photography - http://www.twipphoto.com - Tom
Thomas Hawk - Amazing work! His favs are also wonderful. - Dave Martin
Thanks all! Didn't know about many of these. Now only of I had the time to check them all out. - Joe Perrin
p a b s t p h o t o . c o m - http://www.pabst-photo.com/ - Kol Tregaskes
flickstr - http://flickstr.basementserver.com/ (perhaps not a blog but you can find some interesting photography here - Kol Tregaskes
Epic Edits (Brian Auer) - http://blog.epicedits.com/ - Kol Tregaskes
Photo Business News & Forum - http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/ - Kol Tregaskes
Shutterbug Source Photography Tips - http://www.shutterbugsource.com - Kol Tregaskes
Hope that's enough to keep you busy ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
This is an amazing list. - Russellreno
John Nack on Adobe (His job title is Principal Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop) - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/ - Daniel Schildt
101 Cookbooks - Recipe Journal (great if you like food and photos of it) -- http://www.101cookbooks.com - Daniel Schildt
m o o d a h o l i c (Kenny Weng) - http://www.moodaholic.com - Daniel Schildt
Lumilux (Hans E. Hyttinen) - http://lumilux.org - Daniel Schildt
Flickr Art of Color Photography - http://flickrart.blogspot.com/ - Kol Tregaskes
Kol - WOW, I think you are going to keep me busy for the rest of the year! - Justin Korn
Thank you everyone! I'm sorting through these now and will hopefully have a post about them all sometime this week. - Justin Korn
@Justin Korn (justinkorn): I've just been through my flickr contacts this week to add them as imaginary friends so why doing this I added them here, I also posted my fav list on my blog, so has killed several birds with one stone. ;-) Warning: I'll keep posting, on and on and on... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes from NoiseRiver
Digital Photography Blogs - http://digitalphotographyblogs.com/ - Kol Tregaskes
So I didn't get a post up as soon as I expected, but here is the first of hopefully a few to come...http://blog.justinkorn.com/index... - Justin Korn
AJ Batac
AJ Batac
What's on your CTRL+V?
July 22, 2008 - Comment - Share
mine is -> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. - AJ Batac
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a screenshot, it's not paste-able here as an inline comment. - Alan Le
Dim curCode = mEngine.CreateScriptSourceFromString(FilterText, Microsoft.Scripting.SourceCodeKind.Expression) - Yuvi
N 41° 03.361 W 074° 08.286 other conversions... - Morton Fox
nothing right now because I just rebooted my Mac. - Thomas Hawk
30309 - Snay Trivedi
nothing for me either... weird... i usually have source code. - Tad
hmm... Why am I the only dude here so far with COde? - Yuvi
Look for Less - Anna Faris - Fab Fall - Scarf - Bradley McSpinn
http://bit.ly/36DihT -- not even sure what that links to! - Trent Olson
Just IMed someone .. so this was the paste http://www.youtube.com/watch... .. wish they were on FF so didn't have to use IM - LPH™ and his dog P™
"Sony Ericsson" - just did some reading on their 97% drop in sales and 2k losing jobs - Chris Harris
T:\Baseball Outing - Will Wolff-Myren
229.47 - Matt Casto from bTT
@Andy C: ah haha...nice try. oddly enough, my bit.ly link goes to the tech-recipes link that Yolanda posed right above me... - Trent Olson
http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt... - And a hundred other things, because on Vista I use Ditto (http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/) the free clipboard extender utility. - Dr. Apps from twhirl
http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt... - And a hundred other things, because on Vista I use Ditto (http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/) the free clipboard extender utility. - Dr. Apps from twhirl
2.6.25.10-86.fc9 - Rishabh Mishra (p248)
The value of this paper for digital and academic librarians concerned with EDT repositories is in providing a historical overview, a discussion of the benefits, and a review of the issues involved with implementing an ETD repository at their institution. - JSNFLMNG
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Sam Dodge
Sam Dodge
Has anyone/everyone switched to Firefox 3? If so, should I update?
July 17, 2008 from Ping.fm - Comment - Share
yes indeedy. - Thomas Hawk
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Yep, works great! - Brian Zalewski
Yeah, I'm digging the new version - Avelino Maestas
It's the way forward... - Joe Dawson
Yes, it's great - much less resource hungry and much faster ... - Patrick Jordan
Yes, faster, cooler, less filling, taste great - Dave Martin
Go for it! Much quicker than 2.x. - Jeremy Brooks
best and fastest and most secure browser around - UPDATE ASAP - Migger
the awesome bar is such a great idea.FF3 still uses a lot of memory though. - Cat Laine
YES! and YES! - Steven Perez
i upgraded to v3. It's nice, but opera 9.51 is my primary browser - Tom
Tim Hoeck
Tim Hoeck
How do you backup your data? What software, media or storage devices do you use?
July 16, 2008 from NoiseRiver - Comment - Share
500 gig external hard drive. - Mike Fruchter
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Check this thread out: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Justin Korn
Tim: I really think it depends on what data you are talking about too. I would have a different strategy for backing up pictures vs. documents vs. my quicken data. - Justin Korn
SyncbackSE and a 500G external drive. Critical items are backed up to webhosting space. - David Worrell
External HD, and I have several online services ie: dropbox and wuala for media - Mona Nomura
I use both Time Machine and Super Duper to external Drives. - Tony from Alert Thingy
Time Capsule 1TB - Ryan
@justinkorn: really? would you store them in a separate place, use different software? I am asking because I am trying to decide on a good backup routine (also in light of Mesh opening up). Anyone use their Gmail space to store stuff? - Tim Hoeck from NoiseRiver
TimeMachine to 250 GB external HD. - Vijay
Tim: I'm not saying I do it differently for the different mediums, I'm saying one medium might determine the other. Make sense? Currently, I back up everything to another server in my house and then to another HD in that server. It's not the best and I'm trying to change it. Probably going to look into a Drobo. - Justin Korn
http://www.centered.com/ This program saved me many times - LPH™ and his dog P™
Backup? Why not just move to the cloud? - Kevin L
rsnapshot (open source command-line equivalent to TimeMachine but without the pretty GUI) to a RAID5 server. - Dread Pirate PJ from NoiseRiver
Klecu: When I'm able to download from and upload to "the cloud" as fast as I can transfer from my external hard drive, "the cloud" will become more appealing as a primary backup location. - David Worrell
Time Machine to a 500GB external drive - DGentry
External hard drives and Mozy. - Mack D. Male
Home media/file server - Jay Martin
I am guilty. I don't..Maybe I should start soon.. - Winston Teo
Winston: You should. External drives are cheap these days. - David Worrell
Amazon S3 - Brandon
+1 for S3, accessed through Jungle Disk - Trent Olson
s3 was something I wanted to check out.. how does that work exactly, for limits and such? - Tim Hoeck from NoiseRiver
Tim: or if you're totally geeky, you can get your own Amazon S3 account and you pay less, about 5 cents less than JungleDisk charges you (that's how they make their money, those extra 5 cents in their fees compared to Amazon's.) - Dread Pirate PJ from NoiseRiver
I use Mozy http://mozy.com so if my house burns down, my backup won't go with everything else. - Vince DeGeorge
Drobos + offsite storage. - Thomas Hawk
1Tb Apple Time Capsule - Mel Buckpitt
I use a mix of Mozy, LiveMesh and a 2TB Terastation Pro running as RAID 5 - Simon Bisson from twhirl
1TB external drive and SecondCopy software. Simple but works well for me. - Gus Perez
carbonite, remote backup, easy cheap, reliable - sean percival
Prayer ? - Michael C. Harris
add another vote for time machine to external fw800 drive plus mozy. Took several days for the initial backup to mozy and then it just works. - Johnny Sewell
My dad and I swap 500gb external harddrives once a month. And I have all my pictures on my desktop, my file server and some on my laptop. - Tom
Tom
TheBoxHeads: Tom
What tripods do you use? And what head?
July 15, 2008 - Comment - Share
Head - Bogen 486RC2 Compact Mini Ball Head - Ace
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Tripod - Bogen 190XB Aluminum Tripod - Ace
Those look like some decent prices...I'm thinking I want to go graphite, any suggestions? - Tom
You know, when I was looking the graphite was calling me, but after feeling the weight difference between the $120 aluminum and a $220 graphite (almost the same model)...it wasn't something I could honestly tell the difference. - Ace
I'm sure there's a big difference when spending $500 for a high end tripod, but for the limited use, I'd much rather spend the $'s on glass. What sold me on the one I got was the ability to lay the camera a couple of inches off the ground while still on the pod some of the more expensive ones couldn't even do that. - Ace
Hey! I thought that's what sold me! - Becca
Well i ordered a 190XProB and I'm getting the 488RC2 head. You're right the graphite isn't worth the $200+. - Tom
Cool! What are we going to take pictures of with our tripods?! - Ace
things, people, myself... - Tom
Could have borrowed mine you know...since you won't hang out with me anyway. - Ace
Now you will be twins. - Becca
Becca
TheBoxHeads: Becca
Is Tom really one to talk about someone else not posting pictures?
July 11, 2008 - Comment - Share
I post about once a week. But I don't take near as many as you two. - Tom
Tom
TheBoxHeads: Tom
Ace needs more pictures posted. Use that expensive camera you lazy bum!
July 10, 2008 - Comment - Share
LOL, I have 18 gigs of airshow pictures...just haven't had time to sort them. Next two weekends are full too. Don't expect anything from me for a while. - Ace
*sigh of relief* and here i thought you gave up on photography already. - Tom
Becca
Becca
My First Published Picture - http://trinityakabecca.blogspot.com/2008...
July 1, 2008 from All About Becca - Comment - Share
grats Becca!! The caption to that picture should be "Eat your heart out Mark!" - Tom
Thomas Hawk
Thomas Hawk
My Photography Workflow - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
June 24, 2008 from Thomas Hawk's Digital... - Comment - Share
Thanks for sharing. This was one of the many questions I would have asked you had we sat down for a coffee in Starbucks. And if we ever do... I'm buying. - Kevin C. Tofel
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Thanks for sharing this! - Mack D. Male
Been waiting for this post TH. Thanks. - Chris Nixon
I am one of the ones that asked for workflow detail -- thanks for the post and info. It would be great to see a Scoble video of this -- I have no doubt that the discussion would enhance the information - Brian Sullivan
Great post! You only shoot with prime lenses? Do you switch them out often? - lisa-k
@Thomas Hawk - I believe you have mentioned it before, but I cannot put my finger on it...why the use of Bridge over Lightroom and/or Aperture. Sorry if it's a repeat question; feel free to point to link if you have previously answered this elsewhere. Thanks! - JA Castillo
Fantastic of you to share this Thomas! - Parth Awasthi from twhirl
JA - I use Lightroom and as I was reading TH post it occurred to me that LR would do all of these steps except Geotag. - Russellreno
JA Castillo, from what I've seen and read, he just hasn't gotten around to converting to Lightroom. - Mark Trapp
Thanks for this article, I like the use of "finished" A and B folders. I'd be curious to see how you worked the sliders in Camera Raw and in what order. Exposure, Recovery etc. Great content for a future PhotoCycle? - Andrew Smith
@Russellreno & Mark Trapp - Thanks! I have been contemplating Lightroom and was curious as to why he's still with Bridge as there are more "creative" opportunities via Lightroom over Bridge. - JA Castillo
Thanks all. Lisa, yes, I shoot 96% with prime lenses. I do have a Canon f/4 70-200 zoom that gets used sometimes, but mostly all primes. I used to shoot with zooms but I feel like I get better, sharper images with prime lenses. - Thomas Hawk
I can't believe how much I've learned about photography just from reading friendfeed. Now, if I can just get myself a tripod (or less caffeine) and a decent camera. :) - ha3rvey (big appetite)
JA Castillo. I tried Aperture a few years back. It didn't handle vignette processing back then so I uninstalled it. I'm sure Aperture is a perfectly fine photo editing software package but at this point I'm just more used to Adobe products and I can see no compelling reason to switch to Aperture. I'm sure Aperture is perfectly fine though and sort of view the Aperture/Adobe debate like the Canon/Nikon debate. Both are fine, depends on your preference. - Thomas Hawk
Muahaha, now I will be like Thomas Hawk. My plans for world domination are coming along nicely. - Bwana ☠
some time ago i decided to learn how to use a set of tools and stick with them. I use Dowloader Pro / Bridge / Photoshop. - Mário Pires
In terms of Lightroom, I tried the last beta a few years back out but it was still buggy. I need to spend more time with it though as the best photo processors I know are using it. I'm hoping to spend some time learning it and plan on doing a review of the new upcoming version of it in conjunction with the upcoming version's release. - Thomas Hawk
Seems like my process is quit similar except I started using LightRoom recently. What I don't understand is how you go through 500 pictures in one evening with this process. It took me about 2hrs last night to go through 50 pictures taken and 18 that I processed. Anyway, thanks for sharing! - Justin Korn
Aperture does have vignette sliders now (both gamma and exposure, gamma produces lovely vignetting imo). Check my flickr for examples, I use Aperture exclusively. - Benjamin Golub from fftogo
Very useful Thomas, thanks for sharing :) - Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Justin Kom: I can run through about 250 photos in a few hours in LR. It depends on what everyone means by 'processing,' I guess. A lot of them just get quick adjustments, and I end up copying and pasting adjustments a lot too, with a few tweaks after. This really speeds things up. - donato from twhirl
@Justin Korn. Redbull. - Thomas Hawk
Nice. Also, oops, Korn, not Kom. With the font I'm using in Twhirl it looks like "m" instead of "rn." - donato from twhirl
The Beta of Lightroom 2.0 has better vignetting control (an option to add vignette after cropping) and the software is pretty stable overall. I've been a Lightroom user since the very beginning, and I switched to 2.0 as soon as the beta came out. (I've run about 2,500 images through it with no problems.) It plays well with the other Adobe tools, so if you still want to open up in Bridge or ACR, all your settings will be shared across the applications. - Brian Johns
I really like the LR 2.0 improvements, especially the multi-monitor support and the better vignette controls. I stay out of 2.0 most of the time, though, because: "Develop settings applied in Lightroom 2.0 beta are not guaranteed to transfer correctly to the final version of 2.0. This is particularly true for localized corrections." - donato from twhirl
@Donato - I think I need to learn to find pictures with similar lighting and batch process them like you mentioned. @Thomas - I need to learn to like Redbull... - Justin Korn
Justin, I've gotten pretty good actually at processing images very quickly. I have to as I'm trying to publish 1 million photographs before I die and there's just not the time to spend too much time on any one image -- so I process fast. The jump from CS2 to CS3 was a *huge* breakthrough in my own photo processing productivity. Eventually technology should make the sole limiting factor your ability to mentally process what you want to do. - Thomas Hawk
There are, by the way, some *amazing* photographers who probably spend a lot more time than I do processing their images. merkley, Cole Rise, Kelly Castro all come to mind. - Thomas Hawk
"Typically less than 10% of my photos need additional work beyond camera RAW." -- Wow. This speaks volumes to your enviable talent behind the lens as well as your skillful use of Adobe Camera Raw. Thanks very much for sharing. - Taylor
I got lazy and stopped shooting in RAW....now it looks like I'm going to have to start again... - Snay Trivedi
Making the leap to Lightroom probably cut my processing time in at least half. I think I've used Photoshop about 5 times since I've started using LightRoom 6 months ago! But even so, I feel like I spend just as much time (if not more) processing as taking the pictures. I agree though, some of the most amazing photographers spend WAY more time processing their photos. - Justin Korn
I started using Lightroom about 6 weeks ago, and it has actually encouraged me to shoot more because the workflow is simpler than what I was doing before. I'm glad to hear that vignetting is going to be improved in 2.0. That's my major qualm with the software right now. There are, however, definitely instances where Photoshop is highly beneficial. - Matt
Take away - Use prime lens, compose in camera, shoot raw, process. I need to invest in some prime lenses. - Russellreno
LR processing - On first pass I view all photos in slide room and quickly rate 1 or 4. I delete the 1's and then view and continue to process. If I don't like a 4 on second pass it becomes a 3. Eventually I can say i am finished. - Russellreno
Really brilliant post Thomas thanks v much and I agree with the person who suggested that a Scoble video would help to record the mastery. I've been trying to work this stuff out for ages but never quite applied myself to it the way you have. Now I just have to use the Hawk methodology on about 10000 photos already in iPhoto....oh and learn how to take better pictures...that might be harder! - Anne McCrossan
thanks for sharing! - Tom
@Russellreno: I do almost the same thing. I never delete anything, though. @Thomas, do you ever delete your RAWs? - donato from twhirl
While I don't do any processing to any of my pics I found this a good read and really liked the other links in the blog. I am surprised that your everyday bag contains primes and no longer telephotos. - Becca
Donato, I rarely delete any RAW originals, even technically horrible shots or mistakes. These always could be converted into abstracts later on -- and then there is always the case where what seems like a throw away might later turn out to be significant. This was the case in a famous photo taken of Clinton and Lewinsky. I save everything. Storage is cheap. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, that's always been my take on it too. I don't delete anything for the same reasons. I'd rather keep them and know that they are there if I ever need them or find a use for them, instead of just deleting them forever. I've very rarely ever said "Oh, I'll never use this." and deleted it, because you really never know. - donato from twhirl
Fantastic article. I really enjoyed reading your links to the older articles also. My process is rapidly envolving, and your article helps immensely. I've got a backlog of 90,000 pics from the past 2 years, and anything that speeds the process is wonderful. - Mitchell Tsai
I posted my comment on Thomas's blog as it is too long to post here. http://thomashawk.com/2008... - Jeff P. Henderson
Great comment Jeff. I think more people need to at least try out LR. They just don't know what they're missing. - donato from twhirl
Thomas I'm curious why you chose to go with Lightroom over Aperture? - bill Streeter
Tom
Tom
is playing with lightroom 2.0 beta. Pretty!
June 11, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Share
dang it, now you are gonna make me try it again! - Ace from Alert Thingy
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I sure hope you try it again. It's very nice. I'm thinking $299 is worth it. - Tom
$300 for software? I'd much rather learn to put money toward glass and learn how to take a good picture in the first place. Yikes. - Becca
Call me cheap, I'm just not seeing $300 worth of value with it...my free stuff does a better job, and it's both faster and easier. - Ace
Bridge/Photoshop CS3 is worth every penny of the $800 I paid for it. It's at least 50% of my final image. Adobe Camera RAW which is included in Lightroom for less money is 95% of my processing. I have no problem paying Adobe money for such important and relevant tools. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, request: One of these days, do a blog entry showing a before and after with your processing. As a hobbyist at best, I know I could follow you and take the exact same photo a second after you do, but mine won't even compare in quality. LOL, that's frustrating! - Ace
Ace
TheBoxHeads: Ace
Tommy! Forgot to tell you, my GPS reported 215ft for our bike trip. I question it though because when I biked on Monday it said ~230ft, yet when I look at Google Earth, it shows 170ft difference where I road.
June 18, 2008 - Comment - Share
Curious mainly because for my trip on Monday, I would have biked the same elevation there and back, so I would figure it would report zero. What did yours say and going down a hill, then back up the same hill does it zero out or only report the elevation change? - Ace
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Mine said 220 for the ride last tuesday. - Tom
Mine only records uphills, otherwise if you ended at the same place you started it would be 0 everytime. - Tom
I suppose. 5ft difference between the two is pretty good. - Ace
I think mine only records 10 feet increments - Tom
I'd return it then, that is completely unacceptable! - Ace
Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah Owyang
Today's Topic: What is your Favorite "TECH" Movie. This is open to intepretation to what that means.
June 12, 2008 - Comment - Share
I'll start: MATRIX 1 because of the interesting use of effects, esp 'bullet time' and amazing sound. Sadly, I could have done without Keanu, but oh well. Trinity is amazing, great outfits. And any movie that ends with Rage against the machine has to rock. - Jeremiah Owyang
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Matrix 1 and Minority Report. Only one! Ugh lol umms.................................Matrix 1. - Corvida
Depends upon the definition but how about Office Space? Oops got to get back to my TPS reports - Barry Graubart from twhirl
Short Circuit! Number 5 is alive... - Dave Peck
Tron - Bwana ☠
Corvida, pick one! - Jeremiah Owyang
Barfly. - Thomas Hawk
An oldie but a goodie - War Games. The concept of a learning computer - WOPR - in 1983 was pretty cool. Plus, I had a crush on Ally Sheedy :) - Bryan Hunter from twhirl
wargames - Adrian from twhirl
Minority Report (like idea mother of MS Surface) : ) - Erhan Erdoğan
The underrated Sneakers..... And for old school, War Games.... - Chris Reed
My two favorite movies are Ali and Spaceballs, and Ali can't be defined as a tech movie. So I guess it's Spaceballs, although it's more of a business movie (promotions) than technology. - Ontario Emperor
Star Wars... if you count LightSaber as "Tech". Matrix too, albeit I would tend to say it is more philosophical than tech. - Parth Awasthi from twhirl
The First Matrix cuz, for some reason, the technology in it seemed plausible and the Operator desktop with all the scrolly crap reminded me of my Linux setup - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
war games for it's accurate depiction of phreaking in the early 80s, tron since it got me into 3d animation as a career, and BBS: the documentary (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/) because it's brings back tons of memories. - Doug Brooks
Real Genius (1985) - Geoff Schultz
What about Jumpin' Jack Flash? She was chatting when no had heard of it. ;) - Yolanda
Sneakers FTW! - Morgan from twhirl
Hackers? The Net? Jumper? Johnny Mnemonic? all were so good. ok.. I'll go with Real Genius as my real answer. :) - Jeremy Toeman
For extraordinary gadgetry, I vote for James Cameron's THE ABYSS (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald
Three movies popped into my head before I read any comments. Others have mentioned them all.... War Games, Tron and Sneakers. I think we've defined a new move genre. "Tech Films". I guess perhaps, "Metropolis", although considered sci-fi really spoke to what would happen with advanced technology. Maybe we could also add Chaplin's "Modern Times" to the list. One last film that may qualify, "WestWorld". I'm sure there are many more that I'll think of with a few hours to ponder. - Kevin Shannon
iron man! ok, i just saw it but still... - Frankie Warren
Minority Report - Baard @ Pixum
Short Circuit for sure. Such a classic! - Tom
I'm sorry, but they all suck. Too many of them sacrifice believability for a story point. - William Beem
For wild speculation about the evolution of the Internet, I'd go for LAIN (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald
Wargames (drama) and Real Genius (comedy) - Michael W. May from twhirl
I have to go with Sneakers; better than average for techie-type movies. Office Space for corporate tech. And Brazil... just because. - Phil Crissman
For alternate technology and alternate history, SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald
For ruminations on technology and machine intelligence, Spielberg's AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (http://www.ddmcd.com/movies...). - dennis d. mcdonald
ooo, forgot about Sneakers... good call - Michael W. May from twhirl
Wait William... you mean Hackers wasn't real?? I guess you think Sandra Bullock's movie "The Net" couldn't happen either!? - Yolanda
First Matrix, bar none. Nothing else competes. @Jeremy Johnny Mnemonic was GOOD? You did read the book first, right? - Cyndy
While I really like Short Circuit, Matrix is definitely my favorite. Those who know me, know that my "in game" name is Trinity. - Becca
The Net! - Steve Rubel
Matrix does do an example job of bringing up issues that I think are important. How far are we willing to become dependent on technology? - Leif Hansen from Alert Thingy
The Thirteenth Floor. Better than Matrix, in my opinion. Wargames for sentimental reasons... I actually had my younger brothers convinced for years, that Matthew Broderick was me... (I used a stage name because it was a secret from Mom & Dad that I was acting!) - Kenneth LeFebvre
Pi (http://www.pithemovie.com/) from Darren Aronofski and the German hacker movie 23 (http://www.imdb.com/title...) - Matthias Zeller
THX 1138 - John Reese
Star Wars Episode 1, 2, 3 and Matrix trilogy - wrecks
Office Space. Does that count?? - Sarah
"Sneakers" - Best Line "It's about who controls the information..." a movie before its time. - jyamasaki from twhirl
@cyndy - was being sarcastic, the first examples were all terrible. By the way, I'd add in "Enemy of the State" for cool surveillance tech - Jeremy Toeman
Swordfish - Giridhar from twhirl
The Last Starfighter - Gregory Ng
War Games. - Mike Reynolds
Sneakers - Jeff Mincey
c'mon...The Fifth Element? Anybody? Totally what the future will be. - Marc Vermut from twhirl
While I'm partial to War Games and The Last Starfighter (hey, I went to see TLS *musical*...) I have to say that none of 'em top Real Genius. - felix
Hackers - it was the movie that first got me interested in computers. I have yet to meet a developer that looks like Agenlina Jolie though ;) - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl
many favs: Matrix 1, Paprika (anime), and Minority Report - Carolina Velis from twhirl
Are documentaries allowed? Startup.com. They could have swapped out govworks.com with any dot com i worked in pre-bust and it would have been the same storyline. - J.J. Toothman
Real Genius - Kevin Fox
Wow, no one mentioned Blade Runner? Loved the 5th Element, Marc. Real Genius, great. Sneakers. Matrix 1. Star Wars. War Games, god this list is great! I can't decide. I hope you blog it somewhere for reference. If anyone ever wants to learn about our geek culture, we can link them to the post! - Christine Cavalier
Matrix 1 - Varun Mahajan
Hell yeah War Games, Real Genious, Fifth Element and Swordfish all great. I am so watching War Games tonight. That totally got me into BBS too. I remember the first time I logged onto a BBS I felt like I was about to hack into something like in war games. I can't remember the name of the movie but it had these robotic bugs that injected people and poisoned them. Well it looks like the... more... - Adam Gershenbaum
The Last Mimzy. Not the best movie, but we get a glimpse of what Intel can power waaay in the future. - Nathan Hull
What no votes for "Weird Science?" Can you imagine making Kelly LeBrock!! err...well making <insert your fav., I'd have to say Jolie> - Snay Trivedi
I'll have to go with Bladerunner. Except for the replicants, I think that will be very much our future - John Frost
Hackers. Loved the part where they are drooling over the laptop with the built-in 56k modem. - Richie Escovedo
What, no Terminator? I"m sure someone out there is building Skynet as we go about our business. When they finally make Ender's Game into a flick, then we'll have something to talk about! - Marc Sirkin
When The Matrix came out, I was working in IT as a network administrator. It felt great to see computer geeks portrayed as kung fu badasses. - Wade Rockett
@Matthias 06:34 Euclid Predicts: Pi will remain the best 06:35 Press RETURN ;) - Mario Olckers
definitely Office Space. no tech show-off, cheap effects and hackers. pure tech life. - Berk D. Demir
Matrix I is all by itself on the top - Dobromir Hadzhiev
The Matrix - Dimitar Vesselinov
TRON. - l0ckergn0me
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Just Like a Wheel, What Goes Around, Comes Around - http://photobyace.blogspot.com/2008...
June 11, 2008 from What's in Ace's Face - Comment - Share
I wondered why you were suddenly back "into biking" after you"hurt" your knee. - Tom
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How to Rip Off Best Buy, Circuit City, and even Fry's Electronics, etc. - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
February 27, 2007 from Digg - Comment - Share
"i lol'd at the "full proof" phrase..." - Tom
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XDrive Is Finally Offering 5GB Of Storage For Free - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
September 12, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"i thought it was netscape who was buying digg submitters, not AOL." - Tom
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What Game Developers Hate About Videogame Reviewers - http://digg.com/gaming_...
July 14, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"A couple people from the PC Gamer staff had some good comments in their latest podcast about this article. (episode 41) http://pcgamerpodcast.com/" - Tom
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Scientology Orientation Video on YouTube! - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
June 25, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"i hope Digg V3 has a category dedicated soley to scientology." - Tom
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The Pirate Bay is Back Online! (WITH SEARCH) - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
June 3, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"new torrents work, old ones do not." - Tom
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Rareware: No Games on Revolution 'Virtual Console' - http://digg.com/gaming_...
March 27, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"*tear shed for perfect dark 64*" - Tom
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Firefox 2's Screenshots demostrating Brand-New Features! - http://digg.com/softwar...
March 24, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"Yeah, looks a lot like opera. But, please, don't switch to opera. I don't want it to be the next firefox bandwagon." - Tom
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New Digg Comment System Released! - http://digg.com/design...
March 4, 2006 from Digg - Comment - Share
"VERY VERY NICE" - Tom
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