Picasa Web Albums – Eddie – World press photo of the year 1955-2006.
Author: Stef (Page 45 of 61)
I recently bought a Time Capsule from Apple. This wondrous device’s basic function is to provide automated incremental wireless backups of all your Macs using Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine; it’s a fantastic invention that makes backing up so easy that perhaps now, finally, home computer users will start protecting their data. (Unfortunately people never seem to realise how valuable their information is until they lose all their baby photos or accounts.) It also provides fast wireless-n networking, Gigabit Ethernet on each of its 4 network ports, a USB2 port for wireless printing or wireless Network Attached Storage (NAS), IPv6, amongst several other features, and is generally an remarkable device.
Unfortunately, it’s not all roses. When the backups are working, it’s brilliant ? indeed, it’s backing up my laptop right now: I can just about hear it whirring away and the Time Machine icon in my menu is rotating ? but when you get the dreaded “Backup Failed” message, that’s when things get interesting?
Thanks to Simon for the comment in my previous post regarding UK photographers’ rights for letting me know that Linda Macpherson and he have updated their handy A4 guide to reflect the current legal landscape. Get it here:
Last weekend saw the first Convention on Modern Liberty across the UK. Unfortunately I couldn’t attend due to to high travel costs (one of the disadvantages of living on an island), but thankfully they have posted several of the sessions
For Mac users who may (well, will) have trouble otherwise, here are the direct links to the Liberty videos:
First plenary session (normal)
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/modern_liberty_plenary1_700k.wmv
(high quality – 350MB ish)
Second First plenary session – ‘Can liberty survive the slump?’:
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/modern_liberty_plenary2_400k.wmv
(normal)
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/modern_liberty_plenary2_700k.wmv
(high quality – 350MB ish)
Lord Bingham at the ‘Judges and politicians’ session:
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/lord_bingham_400k.wmv
(normal)
mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/dowie/lord_bingham_700k.wmv
(high quality – 60MB ish)
Interesting paper bottles over at The Dieline package design blog.
LIFE magazine’s image archive, hosted by Google. You could quite easily lose hours looking through that, there’s so many truly great photos there. (via aphotoeditor.com)
Via the ever-brilliant FontShop mailout comes the lovely sharp-serifed Beaufort Pro from Nick Shinn. This looks to be an ideal choice if you’re after an air of class, a Copperplate Gothic-like feel only without the cliché. Get the PDF specimen here. (716KB PDF)