Old Skool RSS
Sunday August 3, 2008 at 3:35 pm | Filed under Friends, On the Web, Software
A friend of mine, Ben, has launched an early version of an idea he had awhile back. It’s the ability to set up an RSS feed that will remind you to check any site that doesn’t have an RSS feed of it’s own. You can also use it for general reminders! Support Ben’s idea and get back in touch with an old school site at reminderss.com!
Squarespace.com
Sunday July 27, 2008 at 9:44 pm | Filed under On the Web, Software
I’m not even in the market for web space or a blog service, and even if you’re in the same boat I’m in there you’ll still be drooling at the services that are being offered by the latest release (v5) over at squarespace.com. They are doing so much “2.0″ (to use an even more overused phrase) it’ll make your head spin. Just watch the video on their home page to know what I mean. Amazing stuff!
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Tuesday February 27, 2007 at 12:20 am | Filed under Software
For those photographers out there who are looking for a fresh new app to organize their digital photo library, you should check out Lightroom. Now, I’m not talking to those casual point and shooters out there — I’m aiming for the folks to use keywords to make sure they can type in “Aunt Barbara” and “Peach Schnapps” and get some results (although it helps to have photos of that combo). Anyway, after messing with the beta for a couple of months the real deal 1.0 has been released and it’s way better than all of the betas have been. I like it a whole lot better than Apple’s Aperture too. I’ll wait while you recover from the shock.
Lightroom is multi-platform, it works for all kindsa image types (you don’t have to shoot in RAW format, but it helps), and it offers a great interface that is both intuitive and advanced. There’s a demo, and a lot more information available on the Adobe site.
Let’s hope this is a good sign of things to come with the final release of Adobe CS3, which my Intel-based Mac Pro is thirsting for.