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Opinion

Johnny’s thoughts on the iPad

January 31, 2010 Opinion
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I was exchanging e-mail with a number of former work colleagues who are Mac users. Not everyone was in love with the iPad. Some called just a bigger iPod Touch while some think it’s the device most of our non-tech family could use the most. Posted below is a response from one [...]

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HDR photography with Photomatix and Lightroom 3 Beta

January 26, 2010 Opinion
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I’ve been poking around with HDR and Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta. Up until recently my work-flow consisted of importing my photos from an SD card directly into iPhoto in Nikon RAW format. I make some minor changes – contrast, colour, crop – and upload the better ones to flickr and facebook. Once I started using [...]

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Camera advice for my family

October 18, 2009 Opinion
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I’ve been getting a few questions from family and friends about DSLR cameras.  The questions boil down to “Should I get one?” and “Which one should I get?” The questions always annoy often because it comes right after a compliment. No, I’m not a self loathing person. The annoyance ( and sometimes [...]

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Welcoming “MackieMac” to our family

April 5, 2009 Opinion
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With the addition of a 20″ iMac for the kids (and an Ikea VIKA Amon desk to display it) we are now completely a Windows free house. This was an important goal for me. I am an anal retentive obsessive compulsive type who likes everything “just so”. It’s bad. I buy [...]

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MacWorld 2009 Keynote News

January 6, 2009 Opinion
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The weeks and days leading up to MacWorld ‘09 were full of speculation about new Apple product and Steve Jobs health. There were rumors of new Mac MacBooks, a revamped Mac mini, and Apple TV. The fact the Phill Schiller would be leading the keynote at MacWorld fueled the rumors that Steve was [...]

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All the other MacWorld predictions are wrong.

January 5, 2009 Opinion
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Everyone has predictions for MacWorld 2008. The pundits are making more predictions about possible or probable Apple product announcements than actual Apple product announcement in 2007 and 2008 combined. So let me enter the fray. Here are my predictions (completely based on other predictions I have read).

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