OMG! GPS unit that attaches to your DSLR hotshoe! OMG!
Playing with Market Perception product on MarketWatch. Pretty cool!
Ordering Graeters Ice Cream for lasagna dinner.
Minnebar 2 on April 21st
Spring is here, and along with it is the 2nd annual Minnebar “unconference”. Reserve the date now and block out April 21st on your calendar. Yes it’s a Saturday, and it’s going to be a nice day in early spring, but it’s a great time and you’ll learn a lot and meet some great people. Go to the site and sign up on the wikipage now.
If you are curious, Minnebar is the close relative of Minnedemo. Minnedemo is focused on demo’s and occurs twice a year, just for an evening. The most recent one was the Holiday Minnedemo. Minnebar is a complete conference and is focused on topics, taking a full day.
Location and GPS in Lightroom
Many of my friends know that I’ve been pretty infatuated with the new Adobe Lightroom product even before it’s release. I’ve brought nearly 40,000 photos into Lightroom and I’m finding it incredibly powerful for managing my ever growing collection of photos.
Lightroom offers many ways to navigate your photos. I’ve spent 90% of my Lightroom time in the Library module just getting things organized, put into collections, keywords applied and making the metadata useful.
One of the metadata items I’ve been particularly excited about has been the Location information. Lightroom by default uses the IPTC fields for country, state, city and place (in order) to identify where pictures were taken. Want to see all pictures you took on the strip in Las Vegas, click. All pictures you took in Times Square? click. It’s great stuff.
I ran across this article though about true GPS integration with Lightroom and I about fainted. It’s a definite read, and highlights a great integration of Lightroom with Google Maps and GPS devices. I need one of these hotshoe GPS things!
Apple TV in the house
Yesterday I got one of the first shipment of Apple TV units to arrive at the local Apple Store. The simplest way to think of the Apple TV is to think of it like an iPod for your living room. It lives seamlessly in the iTunes universe, has a 40G local hard drive and interfaces painlessly via HDMI with your high definition television.
Setting up the Apple TV was simple and straightforward. It’s amazingly quiet. I am confused though why Apple put a relatively short power cable in the box. Seems to only be around 5 feet long, which seems rather short for a device like this.
The interface is simple and elegant. Easy to find and play the media that you want. I’ve been enjoying it for music, and am now starting to play with it a bit more for photos and movies. My first attempt at encoding a DVD for playback on Apple TV was a mess - the audio was out of sync and the picture looked pretty bad. Need to figure out the right magic to make that work.
Listening to Graveyard Shift by Uncle Tupelo.
Hometown, same town blues
Same old walls closing in
What a life a mess can be
I’m sitting here thinking of you, won’t you give
A few thoughts to me
Ecstatic that my Hosted GMail account got POP download now. Can finally transfer my mail archive up.
Finally finished my presentation for the Advanced Internet Programming class I’m presenting at the U of MN tomorrow.
Welcome Izzy!
Today we welcomed the newest member of the Thingelstad family, our new dog Izzy!
Tammy, Mazie and Grandma Kaye made the trip to pick her up from the foster home. I guess she was really nervous in the beginning, but settled down pretty quick. However, not until she had puked on Grandma Kaye three times on the drive back. I got home after work and she was having a great time meeting the neighbor kids that had stopped by to say Hi. Mazie sure likes Izzy already and was providing her with a lot of attention.
She’s a really nice dog.