As a photographer that photographs models, there’s two primary goals that any website that tries to connect models and photographers should aim for: 1. Assisting a photographer in finding the right model. 2. Assisting the client in finding the right photographer. All else is peripheral. The id...

Yesterday I downloaded a copy of Safari 4 Beta for Windows, and I have to say that the speed increase was obvious. Just a little playing around with the browser [especially in developer mode] tells me that Apple has something good. Real good. However, my experience when installing the Safari4.0BetaL...

Warning: long and geeky post follows — iPhone wanna-be developers, read on! I’ve found it, finally, the best iPhone development book so far! Read on to see why. Fairly recently, I decided to turn my attention to native iPhone application development, but I found the arena a little sparse...

So, I go out to eat this evening and as soon as I walk in the door, the Korean waitress announces to all in the place that I’m from Hell. Yes, hell. Not only that, but I’m the devil. I’m trying to figure out what she’s talking about, and she explains that she had just been te...

I happened to sign on to my desktop Mac and noticed something very strange, the Harddisk icon was no longer on the desktop. Other clever tricks for looking at the file systems showed the file was most certainly present, although Finder operations were treating the volume as if the hard disk was hidd...

Anyone who’s been to an Apple Store, especially the one in Tysons Corner, VA, knows that Apple is experiencing some serious growth pains. Yes, as predicted, more and more people are starting to adopt Apple hardware and software and the cost/benefit factor becomes more apparent. The hardware is...

Anyone who knows me is aware that power tools and I do not get along. At all. Perhaps it seems from the time my dad handed me a huge power drill with a circle cutter bit on it with instructions to drill holes in dry wall so he could blow insulation into the wall. “What happens if I hit somethi...

I just had another keyboard mishap moment this afternoon. A keyboard mishap moment is when you go to press one key, and you get two. Or you type one letter, and you’re off by a keystroke. Or, perhaps, you press the key, but it doesn’t register. Either way, you’ve hit the return key...

Photo by Walt Stoneburner Photography, good photography, is a complex and deep subject, primarily that it’s an art about making trade-offs. A while back, I wrote about The Best Photography Books Ever on Light. I’d like to now share three photography books that you need in your personal l...

It’s memorial day, and BestBuy had sent me some coupons. Not amazing coupons, but 10% off this or that, should I happen to be in their store this weekend. So, I’m hanging out around the house and come to the conclusion that having a second digital camera would be a really good idea. And ...