Hex Color Picker. Lets you get and edit hexadecimal HTML color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel.
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Create your own Apple rumour. Clever sendup of all the gossip sites.
First look at FF Meta Serif. If you’re a typography geek you’ll know that this font going to be everywhere.
The BBC is reporting that Microsoft is being warned of more EU fines as it is failing to comply with the EU’s anti-trust rulings. Microsoft’s been deliberately slow & uncooperative in producing the documentation to allow interoperability with its products and deserves more pressure. They’ve been getting away with abusing their monopoly for far too long. Update: the EU have a FAQ on the issue.
What the hell? I just checked Adobe’s online store with a view to buying Lightroom. They offer two different options: download or shipped box. Guess which one’s cheaper? Nope, the download is almost a fiver more! Same with Photoshop: £569.88 for the boxed version, £586.85 for the download. Apparently, not providing a CD or printed manual at all — these cost extra for the download option — is more expensive than manufacturing & shipping them to you. Or is it that Adobe feels that they can scalp their customers for the “I want it now” factor? That’s pretty reprehensible.
Getty Images buys WireImage. Makes sense seeing as everyone seems to be obsessed with celebrity these days.
There’ll be a lunar eclipse on Saturday 3rd March, 2007 and NASA has a good writeup of what to expect. Update: More info from the BBC.
Canon announced the EOS-1D Mark III last week. It sounds vaguely like a spaceship from the classic computer game Elite but is in fact their flagship digital camera, designed primarily for sports & wildlife photographers. Specs of note include a 10.1 megapixel APS-H size (1.3x) CMOS sensor, 10FPS with a 110 large-JPEG or 30 RAW image buffer, overhauled 45-point AF system with 19 cross-type sensors, a live-view LCD and an integrated cleaning system. If you know what all that means, you no doubt want one — I know I do — but the estimated £3050GBP price tag might put you off unless you really need it.
How to Make Blink-Free Group Photos is a remarkably clever guide to making sure you have at least one photo where no-one is blinking. Here’s the lowdown: “For groups of less than 20 people, divide the number of people in the group by 3 if the light is good or by 2 if the light is bad.” Click the link for a few more good tips.
PhotoRec is a great bit of open-source data recovery software. It’s cross-platform and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It’ll recover lost files including photos, video, documents and archives from just about any media. It ignores the filesystem and goes straight to the underlying data, so will still work on cards that have been severely damaged or reformatted. It won’t attempt to write to the media you’re trying to recover from, so is safe to use. It also has a great companion program, TestDisk, whose job is to recover lost partitions as well as making non-booting disks bootable again.