Monthly Archives: November 2008

Nov
24
2008

Yahoo/Flickr Santa Picture-taking

Yahoo/Flickr had a great idea for the the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. They would have two gals, Yahoo employees, ride bicycles with specially mounted cameras on the front steering wheel of the bikes. Then automatically, once a minute a picture would be snapped of the parade as “observed” by the bike riders/picture takers and automatically [...]

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Nov
20
2008

Web Photo Galleries:Upside

For the past 3-6 years, the facilities in graphics programs have improved such that it is simple to create very good looking galleries on the Web. The programs do all the major taks:
1)help gather together the photos into a collection;
2)allow simple resizing and/or watermarking of the images;
3)provide many templates for the basic Web Gallery design;
4)allow [...]

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Nov
19
2008

Web Photo Galleries: Downsides

In our previous posting on Web Photo Galleries: Upsides, some of the attractive features of photo editor based Web Gallery creation software held center stage - it is called the Upside. Now we discuss some of the Downsides to current Web Gallery Creation Software.
No Comprehensive Tool
In the previous review, the issue of a lack [...]

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Nov
19
2008

Adobe Max Show

The Adobe Max Show in San Francisco this week is becoming as important to Web and Cloud Designers and Developers as the Microsoft PDF/TechEd conferences used to be for staying on the state of the art in IT development. But now it is Adobe that is moving on a three prong front that is [...]

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Nov
11
2008

Theater Posters

Nuit Blanche in Toronto gave me the opportunity to indulge a somewhat forgotten fancy
- collecting live theater and show posters. I have a substantial collection of about 400-500 posters from the 1960’s through mid 1990’s - but I just have not been going to shows as often. So collecting has slowed to a trickle.
But the [...]

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