more than two years ago, i read about eric’s first encounter with a light field plenoptic camera, and was fascinated by the very idea.
today, i saw a presentation by dave story from adobe (video at the end of the article), in which he talks about their development of a lens that has very similar functions and (i believe) is based on the same principle.
of course, adobe also has the proper photoshop-tools that make it possible to deal with the new load of digital information.

i’ve added a little script to display exif information for my photos.
when available (most of the recently-uploaded ones should be covered), there will be a [show-exif]-link on the single-photo pages.

for an example just, click on the righthand image.

i’m putting together a disc with all the prague photos from three cameras (using exif date changer to add a timestamp to the filenames).

cross-referencing them with my photos, i had to use these values to correct their exif data:

according to their photos, anna visited prague during christmas 2003, while stefan (a heartfelt IT student) will be there in june 2008. :-)

nice job setting the time & date on your cameras, folks!

i understand why they preset their own screensavers and phone bootup-/goodbye-images, but where is the sense in ruining design?

had to replace my beloved k750i because of several hardware defects, and the new one was software-branded.
in my view, vodafone is depreciating equipment here – they replaced the nice original icons with smaller ones in fashionable red&turquoise, they re-sorted the menus (which really doesn’t make sense! why move the organizer functions from position 0 to 7?? where’s the point in that?), and all the small submenu-icons look almost the same.

great job, vodafone!
if i didn’t loose warranty, i’d have already unbranded it!

[view photos: software-branded phones suck!]

(that is a custom theme, by the way. the original made me wanna throw up.)

just in time for the first december day when i had planned nothing, some technical problems arised, so i wouldn’t get a chance at being bored…

first, i dropped my beloved sony ericsson k750i. it survived, but a spring got loose in the camera slide thingy.
tom has a set of tiny screwdrivers for cellphones, so we dismantled it and put the spring back where it belonged.

we couldn’t find a photo of the correct position on the internet, so i thought i’d post one here: [more...]

in the last few months, i decided to get some upgrades in order to make the digital part of my life …more enjoyable:

digicam: sony cybershot dsc-f828 replaced my f717
the f828 is clearly not an SLR, but i sure have a lot of fun with it.
the only draw back: even though image quality was improved compared to the f717 (the f828 is the first model with a (then-)new type of ccd), there seems to be some extra noise in long exposures…
 

cellphone: sonyericsson k750i replaced my SE t610
i WUV it! it wakes me up in the morning by playing my favorite mp3-song, it generally plays music out loud whenever i want it to, and it takes ok-quality 2 megapixel photos.
and it has a built in pc-remote-control via bluetooth.
 

display: samsung syncmaster 710N has been added to my syncmaster 913N
i wanted to get another 913N, but it’s more expensive now than when i bought the first one.

in case you’re wondering: yes, if a brand doesn’t disappoint me, i usually stick with it.

die deutsche version von firefox beinhaltet bei den voreingestellten such-plugins (oben rechts neben der adresszeile) einen eintrag für google.
bei benutzung dieser suche werden aber nur deutsche ergebnisse gelistet – ich finde das ziemlich lästig.
daher habe ich das plugin so angepasst, dass zwar die ergebnisseite noch deutsch ist, die resultate aber unabhängig von der sprache angezeigt werden…
die dateien müssen nur noch in den searchplugin-ordner im firefox-verzeichnis kopiert werden, normalerweise c:/Programme/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins. firefox anschliessend neustarten, und dann müsste die suche verwendbar sein.

[datei downloaden: firefox googlesearch (2KB)]

in diesem zusammenhang:

• die tastenkombination, um direkt zur suchleiste zu kommen, ist [strg] + [k].
• mit [strg] + [pfeiltaste nach oben/unten] kann man zwischen den suchmaschinen auswählen.
• die reihenfolge der suchmaschinen kann man mit dem tool search engine ordering selbst sortieren, und unerwünschte suchmaschinen dabei gleich löschen.
• noch einfacheres löschen (per rechts-klick) ist mit SearchPluginHacks möglich.

noch mehr tipps&tricks zur firefox suchleiste gibts im blog digital inspiration von amit agrawal.

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