Apple patents a headset MP3 player
Could this be the next iPod Shuffle? http://bit.ly/2Ny7js
Victor Solanoy
photography & my take on stuff
History of Daylight Savings Time
With Daylight Savings Time comining up this Sunday at 2am, ever wonder where it came from? National Geographic has a great article on its history and why it exists. http://bit.ly/1pI3NV
Vintage costume photos in celebration of Halloween
People have been dressing for Halloween for a long time now. Here are some photos of folks in the Halloween best from a long time ago. There are some great ones. http://bit.ly/2nZzUF
HP Envy 15 – Sure looks like a Macbook Pro
To help celebrate Windows 7, HP is entering the stylish PC market with the HP Envy line of PCs by stealing the sexy good looks of Apples Macbook Pro line of notebooks. Looks good, and appears to be powerful, but with the bountiful selection of Windows notebooks available, is $1500+ for a Mac-ish PC worth it? Time will tell, but the question remains – will consumers pay the Apple tax for an HP.
I have to admit, they look sleek and sexy.
See Gizmodo’s initial reaction to HP’s announcement.
The “Leica” Look and Classic Film Actions With Photoshop
I was trying to give my photos that “Leica” look and was able to find a technique that allows me to do this. You can find this technique in a pretty old article on leica-users.org.
This reminded me of a bunch of Photoshop actions I had discovered a few years back that allows you to mimic different types of film, including Fuji Velvia and Kodak’s now discontinued Kodachrome. For a set of free actions, they’re not too bad. One word of warning, if you’ve got a camera that produces fairly noisy images, the noise may become more pronounced by the actions. Go to Pierre Bize’s Photoshop Actions site to find them.
Modifying the onClick value in javascript
I was trying to figure out an easy way of changing the onclick value of a click-able element in a project I’m working on and found this solution — so incredibly simple, and it works in Safari, FF and IE…
document.getElementById(‘clickable-element-id’).onclick = function() {functionname(parameterlist);};
Canon Zoombrowser Error – ZB Module Stopped Working
If you use the Canon Zoombrowser and have come across the dreaded “ZB Module Stopped Working” error, you might be in luck.
I came across a great write-up on why this problem comes up and how to solve it. In short, the problem appears to be with Windows Vista’s WCS color management system. I was able to fix the problem by simply using the system default setting for my display devices. I never saw improvements in color despite trying different profiles, so no loss.
Color photos in Russia from 1909
I didn’t realize how much work it took to create color photographs in 1909, not that current color print processing is no small feat.
Apparently Russian photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky devoloped a process to accomplish this. Take a look at his photographs from a century ago. They look like they were taken just yesterday. Amazing!
http://quazen.com/arts/photography/the-incredible-century-old-color-photography-of-prokudin-gorsky
Vista moved my Videos directory…
For whatever reason, Vista decided that my Videos directory should be relocated to some awfully nested location… someplace it doesn’t below.
After Binging for a solution, the fix is easy. What’s not so easy to figure out is why Vista changed it to begin with…
The Determination to Succeed
I was looking for some photos of a vacation my family took a few years ago. It was 2005, and we were there for a 2 week vacation to enjoy Florida. As things would have it, we were also there for the first shuttle launch since the shuttle accident that resulted in the loss of all seven crew members of STS-107 in 2003.
My family had a chance to witness history in the making when STS-114 and Discovery with its crew successfully launched for the first time in a little over 2 years.
Thinking back on this reminds me of the sheer determinism that we as people have to succeed despite catastrophic failures.
Anything is possible if you’re willing to learn and honor what has been learned, but most importantly to never give up.
