Mac Keyboard Junkies

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 […]

Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000

*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 […]

My Mac ate my photos

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 […]

Ghetto fabulous negative tilt keyboard

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 […]

Aperture image loading time

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 […]

Smugmug + Textpattern Photoblog

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 […]

Crashing waves

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.)