Archive for the 'Tools, Toys, and Geekery' Category
What does Allan think about?
I love visualizations. What do you think about? Can I see?
Posted on Saturday, June 28th, 2008Kristi’s Ultimate Blog?
I'm hoping to rebuild a blog for my wife. What's hot now? What would you like to see?
Posted on Saturday, April 19th, 2008The (Amazing) Assistant Editor
The Assistant Editor: Robots are doing our work now.
Posted on Friday, April 18th, 2008NAB Trip Photos Posted
Nothing too amazing here that you can't see elsewhere in all their machined aluminum glory, but I thought I'd post a few snaps of stuff I thought important.
Posted on Friday, April 18th, 2008Portland: The Water Never Tasted So Good
Back from Vegas and the NAB show, I try to process the Matrix itself.
Posted on Thursday, April 17th, 2008Tenets of Web-Standards Design. In Rap.
Finally, someone is speaking my language.
Posted on Saturday, March 29th, 2008U Can Haz SDK!
After much cry and hue from developers who wanted to create custom applications for the iPhone, Teh Steve released the iPhone SDK in beta form.
Posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008Live video test with ProPresenter
What has historically taken an entire video truck can now be done on a laptop.
Posted on Friday, February 15th, 2008Alphabet Game For Toddlers
Want to let the toddler in your life bang on the keyboard, without disturbing that spreadsheet? Fire this up. They might learn something.
Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008Aperture vs. Lightroom: On The Precipice
Looking on the other side of the fence, the grass looks good, but the green could use a saturation +15 adjustment, with some sharpening and split toning.
Posted on Monday, December 31st, 2007Ultimate Control: Remote Buddy For iPhone
An amazing app uses an iPhone to control your Mac.
Posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Bad Goodness: True
More boolean philosophical questions posed by my software.
Posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Five Week Render
Some videos take longer to render than others.
Posted on Monday, September 17th, 2007Worship Software: ProPresenter 3
A quick mini-review of ProPresenter 3.
Posted on Saturday, August 25th, 2007iPhone, Reconsidered
I reconsider some of my objections to the iPhone. Again.
Posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007So, Where Is It?
Allan tries to justify *not* getting an iPhone. For now.
Posted on Friday, July 6th, 2007iPhone Dream
The iPhone was in my hands at last... but it was huge!
Posted on Saturday, June 9th, 2007All the Pretty Lights
Apple demos a freaky big 750 terabyte SAN at NAB this week.
Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2007Final Cut Studio 2: Monster
Apple's announced a monster upgrade to their Final Cut Studio video & audio editing suite. It's earthshaking.
Posted on Sunday, April 15th, 2007Unread Number of the Beast
My unread news items tend to stack up sometimes. Apparently, if I let mine accumulate too much, I am hastening the apocalypse.
Posted on Thursday, April 5th, 2007Cancel or Allow
A new Mac & PC ad from Apple discusses security on Vista.
Posted on Tuesday, February 6th, 2007Macworld 2007: Apple Fan FREAK-OUT
Allan freaks out about the Macworld announcements. iPhone, yay!
Posted on Tuesday, January 9th, 2007I remember when YouTube was just a kid…
Blip.tv: Hi, YouTube. You use tags, and you’re uncluttered. Cool.
Posted on Friday, January 5th, 2007RAW Image Quality: Aperture vs. Adobe ACR
A discussion of RAW photo conversion in Aperture, compared to Adobe tools.
Posted on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Friday morning at breakfast
A few snapshots, Friday morning, shot with the iSight.
Posted on Friday, December 22nd, 2006