Tag: software
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Review of alloyphoto's Lightroom Gallery 3 Export Plug-in
I've been using Gallery (aka Menalto) for almost a decade, starting with Gallery1, now up to Gallery3 in the current release. In the early days the work-flow for adding and providing meta data about p…
Backing up data on AWS EC2 Micro instances using the CrashPlan headless Linux client
I've been using a combination of scripts to do local backups on my Amazon EC2 micro instance I use to serve this website - AutoMySQL Backup and some cron jobs which ran rsync for various paths on a ro…
My backup solution - CrashPlan & Synology
How I'm using CrashPlan & Synology to make sure my data is safe
Tomato for my router
I've owned a few routers in my day, but have never really been happy with any of them. Coming from a tech background they always seemed to be dumbed down and complicated in the worst ways. All that ha…
Adobe Lightroom beta 4
Adobe updated Lightroom to beta 4 a week back. I've been playing with it a bit so far, and they have definitely made some improvements. Since purchasing Pixmantec (and RawShooter code) , Adobe has som…
Photosynth
I'm a fan of autostitch , and use it quite a lot to make panoramic shots. Microsoft Labs has hit on a great idea that takes this to a new level: Photosynth . Of course, the name tells you nothing. The…
WordPress Database Backup
Skippy has a very snazzy WordPress Database Backup plugin. I just loaded it up on mine and it works fine (1&1 hosting). This is really nice for me. Previously I had to login to my hosting account, go …
I can't get enough hot sweaty Firefox
Ah, firefox has hit the big time. Why? It has a bug that IE doesn't. It has to do with IDN names mimicking real domains, IE hasn't implemented this yet. They use the international characters to make i…