On September 24, 2007, I published my review of the Olympus E-510 DSLR, one of the first prosumer cameras on the market to feature Live View (TTL video preview, directly off the same CMOS sensor used for photographs). Unless people were to jump to conclusions, I wanted to make it clear that it won’t let [...]
» Go to this postI was driving to work a couple of days ago, and as a MINI passed me from the opposite direction, the owner stuck his hand out the window, making the victory sign at me. I smiled, and responded by raising my hand. This sort of thing has happened countless times since I bought my MINI.
Why [...]
On 7/31, I placed an order for a Dell S2409W 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor, a new model from Dell which has a 16:9 display ratio and runs about $350. I needed an external display for my MacBook Pro, because it’s getting cumbersome to edit photos on a 15″ screen.
On 8/21 (three weeks later), [...]
The Dell S2409W 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor is a new model from Dell which has a 16:9 display ratio and runs about $350. Its native resolution is 1920×1080 pixels, which means it can display full quality HD content (1080p). It has three inputs: VGA, DVI and HDMI, which means you could connect it [...]
» Go to this postI recorded a few video clips with my wife’s mobile phone today, and when I tried to import them into iMovie ‘08, I found out that I couldn’t. Apparently, I’m not alone, because if you do a search for this on Google you’ll find there are plenty of other people with the same problem.
Fortunately, there [...]
… and you get the little exclamation sign within the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, and Time Machine will not back up your Mac any more, then here’s what worked for me, twice so far:
Reboot the Mac.
Before doing anything else, go into the Time Machine drive, locate your Mac’s folder inside the Backups [...]
This past Thursday, I was on my way home from work, in a hurry, because my wife and I wanted to be on time to the Gipsy Kings concert that evening. Traffic on 495 was much nastier than usual, and it was pretty clear to me that I needed to take an alternative route home, [...]
» Go to this postYou can try bothering with the preferences files, or the codecs, or the color profiles, as the forums tell you to do, or you can do the following:
Go to your home folder > Movies > iMovie Events. Locate the folder with the last clips you imported. Delete the iMovie Cache and iMovie Thumbnails folders.
Restart iMovie. [...]
We just got back from the Gipsy Kings concert at Wolf Trap. It was as fun as we expected it to be, and more! I’d never seen them in concert before, and neither had my wife, so nothing prepared us for the ebullient barrage of seven guitars playing in unison. It’s a unique experience, one [...]
» Go to this postCutting edge, originally uploaded by raoulpop.
Also from my parents’ yard (like this one). Did I mention I like my parents’ yard?
Mack the Knife, originally uploaded by raoulpop.
In my parents’ yard. They live in South Florida, which was home to me for many years.
The evening breeze, originally uploaded by raoulpop.
One of my most favorite photos. Not sure why it’s not one of my more popular at Flickr, but I like it. A LOT.
