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Re: City of blinding lights

Steve Crane — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:31:49 -0000

Nice pics. I'm glad you enjoyed the lights more than we did.

<abbr>Steve Cranes last blog post..Christmas Light Letdown</abbr>

Re: ChumpStyle: The 7 Hottest Female 2008 Olympic Athletes

Steve Crane — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:53:40 -0000

Surprised you didn't include British cyclist Rebecca Romero who has recently posed nude on her bike for a Powerade ad.

Re: drama, close ups, and intimacy — OH MY!

Steve Crane — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:48:03 -0000

Way to go. I think you'll love it as much as I love mine.

Re: hmmm… this article seems really familiar

Steve Crane — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:25:38 -0000

I gave up on Bloglines a few months ago (after it didn't download about half my feeds for three days) and have been happily using GreatNews (http://www.curiostudio.com/) since then. As I get a lot of image feeds from Flickr, it is not ideal for me to work in the standard 3 pane mode offered by most readers. I much prefer the two pane newspaper style, like Bloglines has. GreatNews is the only desktop aggregator I know of that supports this, and what's more supports it better than BlogLines. The pages load more quickly (because you can set your preferred page length) and the silly 200 unread item limit that Bloglines has is just a memory. Furthermore it's small and self-contained. After installing it I simply copied the whole install folder to my USB thumb drive and can run the same copy from home, work or wherever else I happen to get on the net. Oh and the other nice feature of GreatNews? Like Bloglines, it's free.

Re: self study ten: the longest five minutes

Steve Crane — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:57:33 -0000

I know that feeling well.

Re: untimely destruction

Steve Crane — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:00:33 -0000

That sucks, hope you haven't lost too much. As far as I'm concerned, automated backup software should only ever move data in one direction; it should never update the master copy. Anything that does a two way sync should only run under my control.

Re: my bag baby

Steve Crane — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:44:53 -0000

I have a backpack (Lowepro Rover Plus AW) that has space for both camera gear and other stuff like jacket, lunch, etc., but I rarely use it. It's fine if it will be a longish walk to a spot followed by a period of photography from a single location, say an airshow, but for my usual style of photography I prefer to walk around and like to have easy access for lens changes. A backpack is no good for this so I used a shoulder bag (Tamrac Superlight 44) that allowed me access to everything on the move. It was a little small though and although I could fit my body, lenses and all the little accessories in it there wasn't space for my flash. More problematic though was the fact that the bag was quite heavy and having it hanging from my shoulder was literally a pain in the neck.

I recently bought a new bag that provides the best of both worlds. It is a Lowepro Slingshot 300 AW that has a single strap across your body and can be swung onto your back as a backpack or around to your side/front allowing you access to equipment without having to take the pack off and lay it on the ground to open. The 300 is the biggest and has plenty of space for carrying my body with any of my lenses mounted, all my other lenses and my flash. There are smaller 100 and 200 versions and I could probably have got away with the 200 but was tired of the continual fight for space I had with the shoulder bag.

Re: I'm Up!

Steve Crane — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:05:08 -0000

I'm up but that's not too surprising as it's just gone 1pm here.

Re: Looking for a digicam

Steve Crane — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:01:10 -0000

If I was to choose any non-SLR digicam right now it would be the Epson R-D1. Sadly I need my house and car.

Re: Looking for a digicam

Steve Crane — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:47:10 -0000

I've never actually handled one. I just find the idea of a rangefinder cool.

Re: Canon’s 400D Digital SLR Camera

Steve Crane — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:52:19 -0000

I think it is a good move to use a wide to mid-range zoom lens as a kit lens because it will negate any perceived advantage of the zoom lenses in bridge cameras.

For someone wanting a range like that on a Canon 350D or 400D the answer might be to buy only the body and equip it with a third party lens such as the Sigma 18-125mm. I have one of these and while it isn't top quality glass it is affordable and a fair choice as a single lens for an entry level user.

Re: Colour your updates

Steve Crane — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:13:30 -0000

I kicked Bloglines about two months ago and have been using GreatNews since. It works pretty well and met two of my requirements, portability (it runs off my thumb drive) and has the report or newspaper view I prefer. Now I am intrigued by Newzie, which is certainly a great looking application. I think I'll try it for a while and see how it suits me. I already have one minor but majorly frustrating issue with it, the report window doesn't scroll with my mouse wheel.

Re: Colour your updates

Steve Crane — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:08:13 -0000

I will try playing with Newzie over the weekend as I like the look of the interface. But I'm still using GreatNews as my "production" aggregator today. Newzie will probably be an acquired taste.

Re: MacBook Pro Diaries #002: Spotlight, Terminals and Photoshop

Steve Crane — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:51:45 -0000

As a RawShooter Premium owner I get a freebie of the Windows version of Aperture when it ships. I've tried the beta but it is very slow so I haven't had a serious look at it.

What about trying FastStone Image Viewer under Crossover?

Re: POTD

Steve Crane — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:59:25 -0000

Paul, I don't know whether or not you planned to restrict your POTD selection to original works or not. I just thought I should point out that this is a photo of a promotional poster and is the same artwork that appears on the cover of Live's latest CD.

Re: Book: Tai-Pan by James Clavell

Steve Crane — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:02:27 -0000

Clavell's books are all good. King Rat is my favourite though.

Re: WWDC 2007

Steve Crane — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:21:45 -0000

I was thinking that the intention of Safari on Windows may be to give Windows-based web-developers a hook into developing apps for the iPhone.

Re: Bad UI: Passwords

Steve Crane — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:48:19 -0000

My pet hate is sites that happily accept my chosen password but refuse to let me login next time I visit. Why is this? I use KeePass Password Safe and have it generate nice cryptic passwords for me. The default length was 16 characters and I have never seen a need to change that. What seems to happen is that some sites restrict password lengths to some number, often ten, and rather than warning you that your chosen password exceeds this, they simply truncate it. It is quite amazing how many sites do this.

Re: Baby Watson on the way

Steve Crane — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:54:42 -0000

Congratulations Paul.

Re: Welcome to Earth

Steve Crane — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:52:03 -0000

Congratulations Paul.

Re: It’s Zach Braff’s birthday

Steve Crane — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:16:49 -0000

Zack Braff is great, but so is Jason Bateman, so it should be a good movie.

Re: It’s Zach Braff’s birthday

Steve Crane — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:16:49 -0000

Zack Braff is great, but so is Jason Bateman, so it should be a good movie.

Re: It’s Zach Braff’s birthday

Steve Crane — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:16:49 -0000

Zack Braff is great, but so is Jason Bateman, so it should be a good movie.

Re: F-22 stealth fighter creates its own clouds

Steve Crane — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:17:22 -0000

Here's a proudly South African example that I took at AAD 2006.

Re: F-22 stealth fighter creates its own clouds

Steve Crane — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:17:22 -0000

Here's a proudly South African example that I took at AAD 2006.

Re: Afrigator goes Mobile… and then some

Steve Crane — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:16:15 -0000

Cool. Just a pity that clicking through to the articles doesn't always return mobile friendly pages, but that's not your fault.

Re: Videos of the snow in Johannesburg

Steve Crane — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:15:55 -0000

Cool, here's a photo I took of the snow in 1981.

Re: Twitter in Plain English

Steve Crane — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:45:37 -0000

Thanks for the link to Common Craft. I've seen the Twitter one and it's awesome to learn there are more of these.

Re: Album art meme

Steve Crane — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:17:53 -0000

After I came across this meme I blogged Meme encourages theft; so I'm glad to see that you amended the rules to make sure that you were using an image legally.

Re: Weekend Perusing: Photography Podcasts!

Steve Crane — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:47:55 -0000

Shutters Inc out of Australia is another good photography podcast.

Re: HighKey Designer Camera Strap Giveaway

Steve Crane — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:39:18 -0000

Those are nice looking straps. Quite a change from the usual black.