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Understanding Camera Autofocus
Quite a primer on camera auto-focus mechanisms
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11 Surefire Landscape Photography Tips
Food for thought
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Strategy Letter V – Joel on Software
Interesting article on commoditization. Microsoft did it pretty well in the PC era, while Sun shot itself in the foot by trying to commoditize both hardware & software. Wonder what happens in the mobile computing (smartphone\tablet\netbook) era. Will the app marketplaces do the trick?
Month: February 2011
Links for the week ending 14-02-2011
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4 Walmart employees fired after disarming gunman caught shoplifting – ksl.com
Bureaucracy at its best. Hopefully the armed forces & police don’t have such clauses.
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Camels and Rubber Duckies – Joel on Software
How do you price software? Lots of theories ranging from basic macroeconomics to capitalism & the likes, but no definitive answer.
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City of Shadows – ALEXEY TITARENKO | PHOTOGRAPHY
Time-lapse + Black & White + Busy city = Haunting photographs
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ExposurePlot (former Focalplot)
A very handy tool to analyse the different parameters of your photograph.
“ExposurePlot (former FocalPlot) is a new free utility that analyzes your usage of the focal length of your lenses (jpeg only), show charts for ISO, aperture and shutterspeed.Great to determine which lens you ‘really’ need, or which lens did you actually use on the trip to the mountains.” -
Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT – comp.os.minix | Google Groups
Linus Torvalds’ post evangelizing Linux way back in 1991
Links for the week ending 07-02-2011
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An interesting concept, plus the music is available for online viewing & download too right after the show is aired.
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(Less) Screwed-up Packaging – The Daily WTF
Individual boxes & packets for each screw. Now that’s really green.
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Why Letting Yourself Make Mistakes Means Making Fewer of Them | Psychology Today
“We approach most of what we do with one of two types of goals: what I call be-good goals, where the focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you’re doing, and get-better goals, where the focus is on developing your ability and learning a new skill. It’s the difference between wanting to show that you are smart vs. wanting to get smarter.”
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The trouble with Steve – Mar. 4, 2008
An interesting article on Steve Jobs from the pre-iPad era. Also sheds light on some of the rarely featured issues on Apple & Jobs like the back dated stock options & Jobs’ personal life.
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Paths of Innovation: Fountain Pens | Slideshows
I wonder how many of my generation would have seen or even heard of any of these pens.
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The 7 Most Innovative iPad Apps of 2010 | Slideshows
A handy list with the following lineup:
– Alice in Wonderland e-book
– Flipboard
– Air Display
– Auryn Ink
– Sound Note
– iA Writer
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Pretty interesting article with a bunch of techniques ranging from priming to taking care of your health.
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