Here’s a way to go out and download music from MP3blogs, put it in folders and add it to iTunes automatically. I stopped looking through MP3blogs months ago because I found it too damned time-consuming to organize, catalog, and tag the new music, even though I’ve found fantastic new music online. Maybe I’ll try this.
Curiously, a quick glance at the referrer logs for my other site shows I’m getting crawled by Microsoft a LOT, somebody at American Airlines is really interested in my old weblog, and someone at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution went through a good portion of my site. However, I believe the asshats who were posting my pictures on their MySpace pages are not stealing my bandwidth anymore.
O’Reilly is selling a $7.99 PDF booklet which explains how to build High Dynamic Range photos. When the Software Fairy delivers my shiny new copy of the CS2 suite, I’m switching over to RAW format and trying this process out. Of course, that means I have to get out and take more pictures, something I’ve been very lax about for the past couple of months… (via)
Excellent listening for this cloudy, gray weather we’re enjoying: Morphine’s Cure For Pain.
How to make a hollowed out book safe. I actually did this back when I was in high school, although it wasn’t as clean, and saved my tip money and extra cash in it. (via)
I ordered the Panosaurus panoramic tripod head via Paypal this morning. It’s (from what I can tell) the most affordable panoramic tripod head available on the market, and it’s got some pretty good reviews. When it arrives, I’ll write up a review and post the results here to see—I might be doing a lot of panoramic photography in the near future.
Parallels released an update for Parallels Desktop today, which is great news. I hope the update is more stable than the beta I’ve been running (I get one good crash per session, usually), but overall I have nothing but good things to say about the app. As of 3:30EST, the server is not responding—they must be getting hammered.
Oh, jeebus, does this article on icon design ring true. I’ve spent more time than I care to explaining the reasons it takes more work than just creating one icon and sizing it down: usually this is when I’ve got the smallest size of the icon on the screen and I’m cleaning it up pixel by pixel.
Also on the radar: fixing Jen’s old 1st generation iPod for a reliable backup drive. This is the first link a google search brings up: about $110 for a new battery and a FireWire repair. Here’s an illustrated disassembly guide.
Further: How to run OSX off your iPod. This seems to shorten the life of the iPod’s hard drive, however. I think I’ll just stick with using it as a backup drive.
This is a link to Kodak’s legacy support page for the DC3400. At some point, I’d like to hook this up to an old iMac and set it up to take time-lapse photos with Boinx iStopmotion.