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This episode of PhotoGeek’s weekly audio podcast was recorded once again in the offices of Big Trousers.
We have a problem and it’s not my fault…
Hosts include Phil Greenwoodand Michael Griffin.
We start the show with a very grumpy Griffin as we describe the systematic failure of our approach to his backup and re install of OSX.
We discuss further the Aperture 2.1 update and the plugin development so far and into the future.
Single file RAW tone mapping and Phils few image examples on Flickr and the PhotoGeek Pool.
We find a step by step guide to Canon camera firmware hack, the Open source CHDK hack at Wired.
Our High Definition Blu Ray Pick of the week is The Fifth Element
We speculate that a Mac Mini with a Blu Ray player might be the device to wait for.
60% of Photoshop users are pirates according to research.
Michael mentions Photoshop Express as an online editing application.
PhotoGeek Gadgets
The 3D navigation mouse
The Gold keyboard.
The Sony Blu Ray recorder.
Portable WIFI.
Animoto makes slideshows from images uploaded and puts music to it as well.
The Greeting cards turned up from Moo today and we are impressed with the quality.
The Sanyo Xacti Waterproof not so flash.
Image soon.
Opening and closing music by Velvedene. We close this week with “Fear your Gods”
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Commiserations Michael for losing all your data. When I last transferred my dataset to a new system I did a backup with Norton Ghost 2 minutes before the old (RAID) hardware was changed out so all my data would be up to date… it did the backup and rather than wait for the verify we cancelled once the backup was confirmed and verify started. Guess what; after loading the new system (and reinitialising the RAID) – guess what; I learned that cancelling the verify deletes the backup file without trace.
However (and this is the point of this tale), I am paranoid and the previous evening had made backups of the RAID array the evening before; two copies on two separate 400G drives. So no probs. Paranoia pays
liked the show even with “just the 2″
cheers
Rod
ps Lightroom does comprehensive print colour profile management right now and is clearly moving to a more open plugin architecture similar to Aperture. Adobe serves both Mac and Windows markets and is not going to be out innovated in the rapidly growing digital photo management area. Announced capabilities include export to panorama and to HDR (leverage CS3 engine). Plugins will open the avenue to broader innovation – as for Aperture…
pps Why don’t you use qImage, Phil, for your “production” printing requirements; it will do it in a doddle…
I always have 2 copies of everything….
I purchase external disks in pairs and
duplicate all data. As that drive fills up
I offload work onto DVDs.
I have a third external that is a backup
of the mac hard drive.
Regards
Shayne