I realized today, perhaps just a tad too late, that being a keyboard enthusiast and being a mac user doesn’t really go together too well. At least 90% of the worlds keyboards are built for the PC. That means they’re PS/2, or they don’t have windows keys, or they have windows keys but don’t have […]
*Model*: Number 1048 *Switch Type*: Silent Rubber Dome *Cost*: $45 off of Buy.com Microsoft’s latest entry in the ergonomic keyboard arena. This time, with black and silver stylings and a significantly different shaping. h3. Fixes The newer models of Microsoft’s keyboard line tend to have certain annoying features that everyone complains about. Fortunately, they seem […]
Looks like its _finally_ been released. I see it for $550 on expansys, $520 on importgsm, and a few
After coming back from Muir woods with a CF card full of photos, I tried to dump them on to my mac. I’ve done this many times before without problems, but not this time. I should have suspected something funny when Aperture didn’t pop up automatically. I manually started Aperture, then when to the import […]
Currently I’m using the Belking Ergo Board Pro USB edition as my primary work keyboard. Mainly because it is one of the only USB ergonomic keyboards. I tried the MS Natural 4000, but it sucks goat, so I had to get this one. It’s pretty good, except it doesn’t have the negavtive tilt like the […]
On a Powerbook G4, Aperture is pretty slow. I think everyone who cares knows that. But the interesting thing is, it’s slow regardless of whether you’re looking at a big RAW image or a big JPEG image. For the longest time, I thought I was taking a performance hit because I wanted to shoot in […]
It always seemed nicer to me than the undergrad dorms. Aside from the fact that it was really far away from campus.
As you can see, I’ve been working on making a photoblog. Nothing too complex. My only requirement was that I wanted to use the photos that are hosted on my smugmug account, so that I wouldn’t have to maintain two sets of images online. It’s already a big enough pain to maintain one locally on […]
What’s the trick to capturing waves crashing on to rock? I took so many pictures of this scene, and yet this mediocre shot was the best one I got. Do I need to be closer? Do I just need to frame it differently? (this one is cropped already.)