… images. Needless to say it will pave your way to better images for future as HDR monitor technology is almost upon us. Your photos shot in hdr today will be up to speed when the new HDR monitor technology comes to the market.
What software does one need to use HDR ?
Photomatix Pro [ beta ], Adobe PhotoShop CS 2 and Maya assist in High Dynamic Range Imaging. As far as I know the best software for the job as of now is Photomatix Pro, Adobe PhotoShop CS 2 does have a …
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Flock Developer Preview is now available. Go on give it a whirl. I love it already. Yes well I’m easy pleased BUT if you are anything like me and like technology ( I think ‘geek’ is over-rated) you’d know what I mean. Head on over and have a muck around.
Continue reading ‘Get Flock!’
Ad for Kwanon, first prototype — Ever wondered if there was a Camera House Musuem bringing back all the camera from the past! What would that be like?? Canon has just such a site where it shows a historic line-up of cameras and lenses right from the time of Goro Yoshida, a Japanese man who attempted to make the first domestic 35mm focal-plane-shutter rangefinder camera (called as the 35mm rangefinder camera). Trace the continuing evolution of the 35mm camera, from Canon’s (Phantom Prototype Camera, “Kwanon”) initial products in the 1930s to today’s EOS series, and more coupled with the all swish Technology Hall and the design Hall. A presentation very well made.
George Chavchanidze a mathematician in Georgia uses XML 1.0 markup to capture basic structure of math expressions and CSS 2.0/2.1 to specify their rendering. What a remarkable use of Technology. George Chavchanidze works in the Department of Theoretical Physics, A. Razmadze Institute of Mathematics, Georgia. CSS has tremendous potential and the future holds a lot of growth in this particular area of expanding CSS to meet custom needs. via John
Set in the romantic wilderness of Cold Mountain, Noth Carolina, the perilous journey of a wounded soldier in the waning days of the American Civil War, to reunite with his beloved Ada. Based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, “Cold Mountain” sets off on a true American odyssey through a time that saw some of the greatest ferocity — and heroism — the nation has ever known.
The technology that made this possible, undoubtedly Apple’s Final Cut Pro. Read master film editor Walter Murch’s interview
Adaptive Path and Different, the Australian interactive agency specialising in human centred design, have teamed up to bring Jesse James Garrett to the all-new Human Centred Design Revolution workshop this May in Sydney. Join Jesse as he gives his full-day presentation on “The Elements of User Experience” and “The Nine Pillars of a Successful Web Team.”
The details are as follows: Locaton: Tuesday, 17th May 2005, Australian Technology Park, Sydney
Jesse runs his own site at http://www.jjg.net. His book: User – Centered Design for the Web — “The Elements of User Experience” has some tremendously positive reviews. You can download a free chapter from here.
Jesse, I am assume will be talking about Ajax too. Ajax is an innovative web application framework.
Its funny thinking of Bay 8 at Australian Technology Park now that our part of the office has moved back to north shore again, I wonder in the Australian Park for about 4 years. That place all too familiar to me.
Well almost! I decided to have number 1 cut, well number 2 and a bit more on the top and down to number 1 all the way at the back and the sides. Well that actually did happened last Thursday. Friday was our last work day at ATP otherwise known as Australian Technology Park as we are moving office and start back in St. Leonards were we were about four years back! Most of Thursday and Friday went in packing up our stuff. Exciting! Good news for me though… its easier to get to St Leonards from where I now live than ATP. 
At long last I’m a proud iPhone owner and like the rest who has tapped into the power of iPhone I am in sheer, awe, delight and joy of this marvel of technology!
Think I’ve done well to fight the temptation for a whole year since they were available in Australia around July 2008. Over the years I’ve had quite a range of mobile handsets but nothing has ever come close to the goodness of what apple brings in an iPhone. Really nothing comes close or is comparable to the iPhone! It is a masterpiece. A marriage of technology and superb interface. It is a love story of epic proportions if such a phrase could be used to describe a ‘gadget’. it just is! I’m truly floored by the design, the finish, the response, the crazy addictive App Store where thousands of people across the globe write jaw dropping Apps. It has considerably cut down my time in front of the computer! And dare I say I’m loving every bit of iPhone juice I can have.
UPDATE: Google chrome is now available for download. The Speed and functionality on the beta software is noteworthy. Still working out the beta browser before I write more. It looks promising.
Canon EOS 50D
2 items hot off the press — well actually one of these is no longer hot as I let this sit in my draft way too long. Canon has indeed released its EOS 50D last month. and is already making some news. This would be one fantastic upgrade… for previous Canon DSLR users. There is a huge jump in the image resolution to 15.1 megapixels and a maximum burst for 90JPGs, ISO expandable to 12800, Face detection technology! I was a bit surprise to see that the 50D didn’t come with a 1:1 CMOS conversion. Would have been nice but good still.
What a remarkable use of technology. This is what really makes me happy… people using technology to do things that aid and help for a greater cause. This recording was made a day before landing, STS-114 Mission Specialist Steve Robinson transmitted the first podcast ever from space! Listen to it here.
I finally bought my much awaited 17″ PowerBook. It is truly an amazing piece of technology. This is my first posting on mac platform. Eating a humble pie here: I now think a bit more about websites working properly on Macintosh, but I tell you this, Safari works at the speed of light. I have only got 512MB of RAM and have a few applications open yet I don’t hear the HDD churning, nor do applications hang, and all of this as I even watch quicktime trailers off the apple site… sweet as!
Howdy All, thought this would be a good start to let you all know that the project I have been working on the last few months has gone live yesterday! The URL of the site is http://www.tafeglobal.com.au
TAFE GLOBAL is the international arm of TAFE NSW, parts of the Web Site are in Chinese and Malay other than English. A greek version is also underway. I am really proud to have worked with such a professional team and am surely going to miss them! It was very kind of them to have put me up on their web site.
I was coming home late at night from Mosman last Tuesday. It was also Melbourne Cup day — the biggest event in Australian racing. Makybe Diva has etched a permanent place in Australian racing history by winning an unprecedented third Emirates Melbourne Cup. Wow, what a supermare!
For those that have noticed my weblog here doesn’t have a link ‘skip to content’ instead it says ‘skip to main content‘. A fairly simplistic change one may say. But there is more to this than meets they eye! Blind users use Assistive technology to read pages on the internet. Tools like JAWS would read ‘Skip to Content’ with an accent on the second syllable. That would defeat the reason on having a skip link in the first place. The alternative to this is ‘Skip to Main Content’
Using ‘Skip to Main Content’ at the top of your pages ensures JAWS doesn’t get confussed about the world ‘content’ nor will it read it with the accent.
The long wait in nearly over, in less than a few hours iPhone 3G will be released in Australia. While I’d have been one of the contender to get it in the first release Apple having released iPhone with Telstra, Optus and Vodafone only has left me with little choice other than to wait. Perhaps that is a good thing for all I know.
It would be good to see all bugs ironed out when I get mine. It still annoys me to think 3 missed out on such a huge deal… For those who may not know 3 launched in Australia in April 2003 and was the first 3G network here in Australia not to mention its 1.7 million customer base to this day — not sure what went wrong in Apple not choosing 3 during release of iPhone. Surely 3 has a bigger audience base compared to Vodaphone and Optus. This probably saw 3 gets customers to pester Apple for iPhone (via Harry). And after a huge response from a lot of 3 users Noel Hamill, Director Sales, Marketing and Product, 3 wrote in a message that they are going to take this appeal to Apple. But no release dates were mentioned.
Is this short-sightedness on part of Apple? Not sure. Then again when the 2G iPhones launched in US a year back they released them with AT&T. Not the best carrier in US either. Go figure! Apple does great things and I loved most of what they do but Phone carrier market research for Australia has clearly not been their strong point.
Back in the days when mobiles, or cellphone as they are known in America weighed like bricks and looked more like an upright shoe brush I had sunk my teeth in all that mobile gluttony just to see how good they really were. It was a Nokia, I don’t really recall the model number if there was one but it looked close enough to this. It had a rather nice digital screen for its time but did cost me lots of Indian rupees to receive incoming calls and even more to make outgoing ones! Aaah! Mobile technology was here to stay — people had figured out how to make money on the go. Even though it was somewhat awkward due to its size and weight they still were handy at best and mobiles seemed a great tool while commuting. It was a fashion statement for some and lots seem to take photos of them using a mobile even if it wasn’t their own — as if the handset were a new pet. Something to cherish for posterity! You guessed it, it was early to mid 90′s. people mostly kept their word of honour and sense of time. And those that had a mobile had the luxury to run late at the cost of a call. It was the start of a new disease! The running late disease which is so rampant today.
I am getting fed up of my own blog I need more design elements. But I don’t have the time. I want it too look prettier, but content is King and I know looks make it better sometimes but nowhere near as much as good content!! I want to get rid of the grey and have something fancy. I might too, LOL, too hard on myself as always, too critical of my own site. I want my site to load in less than 6 seconds on a 56KB dial-up line, this one does!! Try it but hey making an arty-farty site will look sauve but will it reach out to that many people? NO. Again content is king. I want to, like the rest of the world design my entire blog in Illustrator and then redev it. But that would be so futile an excercise… I do care about people on slow lines. And I respect their choice for not moving on to broadband — whatever the reason.
Five reasons why I blog you ask? There are many. Most of all is the joy it brings me to write and share photos with friends and family. Others are off-shoots of this very special one.
I really enjoy blogging though not near enough as much as I did before, partly because of time constraints and I find it more fulfilling to write something personal rather than being a pedestrian messenger broadcasting the same topic like a few thousand else on the internet. Really, do we need that many copies? Good composition generally take a bit more time to assimilate and present but when catered for usually make for an interesting read. Well, in most cases.
Its just past midnight we’ve ushered into 2009. HAPPY NEW YEAR all. Fireworks light up the night skies over the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Darling Harbour celebrating its 21st birthday! 2009 going to be one great year. It was a fun evening catching up with Aje, Richie & Parkie on New Years eve and lovely to see Alison and Tracey who are visiting down-under. After lots of nibbles, lovely 80′s music, enough BBQ to kill a village and Bella to boot (I was the designated driver so no alcohol for me) we walked down to the wharf with passion-pop in hand.
Overwhelmed by the amazing response to WE05. I don’t know where to start. Despite being a fortnight late in publishing this I seem to be still reeling from the effect of a total WE05 utopia! It was definitely an amazing conference. Let me take that back it was not only a conference that stood out as being unique but this was backed up with amazing friendly people from many walks of life and many continents around the globe. Rare! A collaboration of this nature can only come to pass where people think beyond their own thirst for knowledge, and not just the organisers and speakers but also the delegates… I, for one, saw the conference from a very different standpoint as compared to last years. Continue reading ‘WE05 from my perspective’
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