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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 8:52 pm.
(By the way, Web-one-point-o-ers, if you subscribe to the RSS feed, you get to see more pretentious and overdone shots like the above from my flickr. )
I am still a newbie when it comes to RAW post-processing, but every google result seems to suggest Adobe Lightroom is more preferred than Apple’s Aperture, so I have to try it myself.
One thing that bothers me in Aperture is, I could never get the Color Profile preview to work. You know how Mac people live in the beautiful Neverland with gozillion of colours, but the dream shatters as soon as you view the photos on other OS’s or Firefox (even on Mac). I did all the profile conversion and monitor calibration, but the preview given by Aperture is still way off. Everything works fine in Photoshop and, naturally, in Lightroom as well. I know it probably has something to do with my settings, but Aperture made me (who has worked as a print lab assistant) feel stupid.
Lightroom is light. The whole program extracted is under 50 MB. I guess it is more like an extension to Photoshop (its full name is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom), instead of a full-blown application. It feels way snappier than Aperture, especially when you zoom in. The “Loupe” in Aperture is eye-candy but impractical. I don’t like how it spins around cleverly when it hits the border, too flashy.
The other advantage of Lightroom is it defines a well-guided workflow for you. Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web are grouped into tabs. The built-in slideshows and web galleries (HTML and Flash) are simple yet elegant; which are good alternatives to the iPhoto/iWeb ones.
I might be wrong, it seems to me Adobe borrowed a few UI ideas (such as stacking) from Aperture. They are forgiven because they chose the good ones selectively, otherwise Lightroom will be as bloated. In short, Lightroom is lighter in features that are less related to photo processing, such as browsing and archiving; and more powerful in those that matter.
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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 10:28 pm.
This is what happens when you give an AppleTV to a girl who is semi-knowledgeable about computers.
P.S.1 My Macbook Pro came with ComicLife, which I used to make this silly comic. I heard (from Jon) they don’t bundle third-party software anymore.
P.S.2 Yes, my AppleTV is called ChickenTV.
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Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 11:44 pm.
Please don’t take this personally, even though I only have so few friends on Pownce and I am most likely referring to you in particular.
#1 Please don’t post Apple event announcements (i.e., the new iMac specs).
Chances are most of your friends are also subscribed to macrumors, gizmodo, engadget, digg…etc. This is especially a problem for Pownce, because most users are on top of their sh :exclamation_sg: t, and Apple products excite everyone by default.
#2 Please don’t duplicate web celebrities’ Pownce posts.
Same idea: You’re not the only one. I and the other 2839 fans follow his/her Pownce, too.
#3 Please post links under Link.
On a second thought, Pownce should just get rid of the Link category, and add auto-formatting to links in messages.
What else?
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Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 11:50 pm.
I wrote this post last Sunday, and on the same day Dred242 blogged about something really similar with the title, “I guess I’m just a social networking whore.”.
Wait a second, joining every Web 2.0-ish website does not make one a social networking whore. Sites powered with community-driven content != Social networks, according to my book. A social networking whore is someone who has 300+ friends on myspace, posts half-nude emo photos, and write to other people’s myspace with messages like, “I WANA HAVE YOUR BABY. XOXOX. ZOMG LOLz”.
Now, look at my myspace.
Read on to find out about my recent social networking adventures.
(Warning: I bored myself writing this, so here’ s an unrelated photo.)
Continue Reading…
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Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 11:14 pm.
My 15″ Macbook Pro arrived last week and I named it ProChicken. I made a trip to Richmond Daiso to get a $2 cushion case for this $2000 computer. It feels great to finally own a computer that can run Windows smoothly. Ironic. My last laptop was bought in 2003 before I went to Japan for co-op. It was a Sony Vaio (named “PurpleChicken”), which is still functional today. It was the cheapest and most low-end in store when I bought it. Even the default Windows XP bevel interface made it choke. Now I can run Visual Studio and all kinds of boring bloated applications.
I haven’t had a chance to really enjoy Joost until now (Mac version doesn’t run on PowerPC, and PurpleChicken is too slow). Using Joost on a wide-screen laptop is awesome. I watched a full documentary about chickens on the “Off the Fence Documentary” channel. Did you know the US Air Force shoot chickens out of cannons to simulate high-speed bird crashes on aircraft windshields? Dead and frozen, of course.
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Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 3:29 pm.
Should I include flickr updates in my feed? I have been turning it on and off in the past and I could not decide the right thing to do.
+ If they are in the feed, then I don’t need to blog about them.
+ People who aren’t subscribed to flickr can see the photos earlier and don’t need to wait till my post here.
+ My feed will still be active (with flickr and digg updates) even when I stop blogging.
- If I end up posting some of them on the site, it is like double posting.
- I sometimes upload 30+ photos at the same time, and that means some+ updates on my feed.
+ You can always “Mark all as read”.
