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SirSnapALot App in Ovi
Sunday, June 27th, 2010I recently created a SirSnapALot app that runs on Nokia phones and it is available for free in the Ovi store. It was quite easy to do using Ovi’s app wizard- any RSS feed can be made into a widget and auto-submitted to the store. All I needed to do was add just a little [...]
UV or not UV?
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Yesterday I had a sales guy try to pressure me into a UV filter for a 10-22mm wide angle zoom lens. In the days of film, these were commonplace, though I personally never used one. Film, at least, was sensitive to the UV portion of the spectrum and could at higher altitudes, make the picture [...]
A note on endorsements
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Just to follow the last article on renting equipment, I wanted to mention that I will mention brands and companies that I have used, but I am not getting commercial endorsements from them. In the event I ever have a connection with a company I talk about, I will disclose that early in the article. [...]
New Camera Update
Sunday, February 1st, 2009Well, one month is past and I’ve been enjoying my new camera- a Canon EOS 50D quite a bit. Pictures are crisper than the Nikon Coolpix, as well as richer in color, enabling me to get much better pictures, especially of the wildlife around my house. Since we have an indoor/outdoor cat we take care [...]
New Camera, time to catch up
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008I’ve been absent for quite a while- I apologize for that. That’s not what I intended when I started this blog in 2007. However, work has been so busy that I’ve been unable to find much time to actually write meaningful articles. Meanwhile, I intended to catch up over Christmas with the purchase of a [...]
RSS Feed Now Works
Saturday, January 26th, 2008If I have a complaint about open source software, it’s that the documentation is dismal, and what exists is written by the developers for the developers- it’s not straightforward and you have to dig through many examples to find what you want. Creating RSS feeds is not my specialty, and honestly, I spent several hours [...]
Comments & Spam
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Just a short post- if you want to comment on anything, please feel free. Please accept, though, that there will be a delay before your comment is posted. I am daily getting spam posted through the comments feature, and requiring all comments to be moderated by me is necessary to keep this site focused on [...]
