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Feb 19, 2009
Photography

Grungy film textures for photos

Cool, old film textures for use with photos. About 4000px per side, meaning they’ll work great for most photos from DSLRs. Been looking for something like this for a while.

Feb 19, 2009
iPhone

Greg Yardley on AppStore metrics

Greg’s the CEO of PinchMedia, super-smart, extremely friendly and in possession of some data worth understanding if you’re considering releasing an iPhone app. iPhone AppStore Secrets - Pinch Media</embed>View more presentations from pinchmedia. ...

Feb 18, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Sky not blue, bears don't shit in the woods

and the sun is not a gigantic, fiery, thermonuclear orb: “Dick Cheney is not a guy who is bitter,” Mr. Simpson said. “He doesn’t seethe, he doesn’t brood.” via Aides Say No Pardon for Libby Irked Cheney - NYTimes.com.

Feb 17, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Thanks, asshole!

Burris pisses me off. Way to cost us a Senate seat, asshole. U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has acknowledged he sought to raise campaign funds for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the request of the governor’s brother at the same time he was making a pitch ...

Feb 16, 2009
Photography

Salient differences between the PocketWizard TT5 and TT1

Update: one question I still had was whether you could use a TT1/TT5 on your camera and II+s on remote strobes and still take advantage of a higher sync speed. According to Rob Galbraith: yes. I’ve been reading through the user manual for the Poc...

Feb 16, 2009
Photography

Pocketwizard FlexTT5: Wowza!

I’ve been reading coverage of PocketWizard’s just-announced FlexTT5 and MiniTT1 RF transmitter units, and I just have to say: “wowza!” David Hobby has a fantastic write-up available over on Strobist, which gives as much information on these as yo...