So I’m working on a new site (http://northphoto2.smugmug.com/) fat, dumb, and happy and all the sudden I refresh to get a new look at the page and BAM! Firefox crashes on me, hard. So I spend the next 2 hours using Safari to remove pieces of code until I narrow down the culprit. [...]
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A while back I found this neat little widget by some company called Callwave. It is pretty simple, install the widget, put in the number and type out a text to someone. The international texts were limited to 5 free ones per day. Five free is a little on the low side, [...]
Check out the cool shot of the eclipse I got!
Published March 5th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThe weather was perfect for Eclipse viewing last Saturday. Here’s a pic that I was able to get. I shot it with a Sigma 50-500 “Bigma” and a Canon 20D. I made the image “pop” in Photoshop, but I didn’t go to any extremes. The colors in the shot are the [...]
Dgrin busts out with $25,000 Photo Contest!
Published February 26th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsThis is the real deal for photographers out there! Digital Grin is redefining the meaning of an online photo contest by offering, get this, actual prizes. But more than that, this contest isn’t some scam to get photographer’s to give up the rights to their photographs. The only requirement is that the [...]
Photoshop Glassy Logo Tutorial
Published August 29th, 2006 in Tutorial, Uncategorized, Webdesign and photoshop. 7 CommentsSomeone on the NAPP member’s forum asked for a tutorial on how to create a glassy looking button or logo similar to the intel Core Duo logo you can find on this page. I was going to do a bit of a write up in the NAPP forum but then I got to looking around at it and realized just how little participation there is in the NAPP forums - which is a shame but that’s another story. Instead I decided to actually make some use of my Dreamhost account and do a blog post about it. So here goes.
Holy Freaking Cow! Smugmug Hearts its Pros!
Published July 28th, 2006 in Smugmug and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsI just got word that Smugmug has made a major feature release today! They are really aiming to conquer the professional photographer market. This is a major release geared towards pros and it really shows Smugmug’s committment to their professional photographer subscribers. Check it out the details on their release notes blog. [...]
Open Letter to Phil Askey
Published June 23rd, 2006 in Blog, Photography, Smugmug and Uncategorized. 11 CommentsBackground: Don MacAskill (”CEO and Cheif Geek” of Smugmug) recently got a letter from Phil Askey (dpreview.com head honcho and cheif jerk) that said:
Just to let you know that we will be blocking linking to smugmug from our forums due to the rapid increase in your “viral marketing” technique of using “account codes” for [...]
