photo Drop, my free utility for creating droplets that modify photos, has now hit it’s first public beta. If you’re interested in learning more about photo Drop or would like to download your own copy, head over to photo Drop’s product page.
In one sentence, the DiscHub is a simple, yet so well thought out idea to protect your CDs. A plague that hits almost everyone with CDs is that they inevitably get lazy and never put the discs away. Before I bought the DiscHub back in February, I used to have a stack of CDs and DVDs floating around my desk. Granted, they weren’t the most important discs I owned nor were they getting broken, but they were getting scratched.
The DiscHub
Enter the DiscHub. Currently available in three different colors, this $11.99 piece of molded plastic has 11 grooves for you to insert your CDs into. At first I was worried that whatever material being used to hold the discs into place would scratch them. This is not the case as the makers of the DiscHub used soft neoprene to hold the discs upright and to protect them while inserting and removing them from the DiscHub. Moreover, they were also smart enough to design the DiscHub in such a way that the CDs don’t simply line up one after another in a row but are staggered, making it easy to find and grab the CD you want. That’s pretty much all there is to say about the DiscHub. I’ve found it well worth the money as it’s helped me store CDs that I’m not sure what to do with in a safe and aesthetically pleasing manner.
Today’s been a good day. Well, mostly good; the fact that New York state wants an additional $109 from me in taxes has left me confused as I earned comparatively little last year.
›› Registration for Fall ‘04 classes went according to plan. All four classes that I wanted were open when I registered at 7.40 am (during my time block on WebAdvisor) and I’m now all set for the beginning of senior year. The only change in plans was that instead of taking an 11 am class Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I’ll be taking the same class an hour earlier at 10 am.
The four classes that I’m taking are: Financial Market Theory (Econ 425, counting as my senior project for my Economics major), Senior Seminar (Cpsci 410, counting towards the beginning of my senior thesis for my Computer Science major), Vietnam through Film (Cplit 207w), and Modern Life and War in Japanese Literature (Cplit 239). Making this even better, I’ll be taking the Japanese literature class with Greg and Grant and the Vietnam course with John!
›› Snapfish sent both the card and photos I had ordered last week. I’m very happy with how they came out and will definitely use this service for developing my digital pictures. At 19 cents a photo (with many promotions to receive free credits on developing), Snapfish is both an economical and worthy choice.
›› Dell not only credited me for shipping charges on my recent purchase, but even honored their promotion for a free compact flash card with the purchase of a digital camera. This makes their already ’sweet’ offer (Canon Digital Rebel XT w/ 18-55 mm lens for $809.10, $190.79 less than MSRP) even better!
›› More surprisingly, the camera arrived today. Yes, today. I ordered it Friday morning and was given a tracking number in the evening. I had chosen the cheapest shipping and it was estimated to arrive on Thursday. However, when I went to the mail center at noon, I had a package slip waiting for me and there was the camera. Speaking of which, the Digital Rebel XT is superb. I haven’t played too much with it but from the pictures and time I’ve spent with it, it’s a wonderful camera. I’m looking forward to the arrival of my other parts of the kit which should arrive throughout the week. Now I just need to start paying for it all …
›› As an aside, Greg return from Japan today. He spent the last four months there and has been taking plenty of photos (coincidentally with the camera I sold him, my old PowerShot S200). I’d urge you if you have a moment to take a look at some of the photo’s he’s taken. It gives you a good idea of what Japan is like and can only increase your desire to visit Japan even more.
Taking advantage of an excellent deal offered by Apple’s rival, Dell, I’ve finally taken the plunge and purchased my first digital SLR. I’ve actually been wanting to do this shortly after I bought my first digital camera, the Canon PowerShot S200 in July 2002. Even after I upgraded to the more powerful, but still point-and-shoot Canon PowerShot S60 last summer, the urge continued. So finally, after almost three years of owning a digital camera, snapping more than 2500 digital photos, and spending countless hours color correcting and cropping images in PhotoShop, I’ve finally invested in a proper digital SLR.
Canon Digital Rebel XT w/ 18-55 Lens
The DSLR I finally decided upon was the recently announced (February 2005) Canon Digital Rebel XT. This is the second iteration of Canon’s consumer DSLR and is an update on the popular Canon Digital Rebel released in 2003. I’ll go over some of the specifications later but I do want to mention a couple of major differences between point-and-shoot and DSLR cameras.
With great interest, I’ve been reading the comments on Matthew Mullenweg’s recent post, Braindead Finder Behavior. Up until today, I had never realized that there was a difference between the way Windows and Macintosh replaces a folder. Before commenting on the issue, let me make it perfectly clear how both operating systems work.
On the Mac, dragging a folder to a location with a folder of the same name prompts you with the following confirmation dialog: “An older item named ‘test’ already exists in this location. Do you want to replace it with the newer one you are moving?” The two context-sensitive buttons are “Stop” and “Replace,” with ‘replace’ simply overwriting the old folder with the new one.
On Windows, dragging a folder to a location with a folder of the same name prompts you with the following confirmation dialog: “This folder already contains a folder named ‘folder_name’. If the files in the existing folder have the same name as files in the folder you are moving or copying, they will be replaced. Do you still want to move or copy the folder?” In this case, Windows provides you with four buttons titled “Yes,” “Yes to All,” “No,” and “Cancel.” Now, if you press either ‘yes’ or ‘yes to all,’ your files are merged unless there are conflicting names, in which case, the files are then overwritten. The difference with ‘yes’ and ‘yes to all’ is whether or not you would like to be prompted for each conflicting file. ‘No’ and ‘cancel’ provide you with the ability to skip a conflict or to cancel the full process.
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