I went out to the west side of Carnegie Lake and set up my tripod. I used the [Star Walk] app to find just the right spot to position my tripod and my camera. I waited about an hour – moonrise was 7:48 PM – before calling it quits. The sky was simply too cloudy.…
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I had a rough day with allergies yesterday. Despite the rain the allergen count was high enough to cause some adult onset asthma. I was having a tough time breathing so my wife insisted that I use the nebulizer.…
I shoot so often with my 35mm f/1.8 DX Nikkor (52mm FX equivalent) that I had forgotten that I had another lens. While using Flipboard to flip through the Flickr stream of my contacts ( and aptly named app - oh oh, the puns are flowing ) I suddenly realised I had not done any macro shots in a while. I don't have a dedicated macro lens but I do have a Nikkor 18-55mm VR lens that I bought to…
At last night's Princeton Macintosh Users' Group (PMUG) general meeting, our President, Alan Fox, asked the membership to think about the "post-PC" era and what that means for our group. Alan noted that a newer generation of users are coming into the Apple family, not through their love of the Macintosh, but from their experience with Apple's mobile products – the iPhone and the iPad. Alan believes that our group needs a name change; that we need to drop the…
123Macmini.com - News - iPhone Roundup iPhone Roundup Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 4:25 PM EST Posted by: Charles We have been taking it a bit easy on the iPhone news, but I thought it would be a good idea to post a roundup after it launched. Here are some of the best reviews, picture galleries and videos that have been posted on the net over the last few days:…