This past week I just listened to To the Best of Our Knowledge and they featured Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog (if you don’t know what that is consider yourself to be young or maybe you were just too stoned at the time). Brand talks about how globally things cooled down when [...]
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In the driver’s seat of a hurricane
If you fire-up the application Google Earth you can zoom in and tilt over the view so you have a look at Hurricane Felicia aiming to roll over the State of Hawaii. It’s like being the backseat driver for a hurricane. Yikes!
W, E, 3, M so what is it?
View Larger Map So I was building a Google Map today and came across this via the satellite view. What is this? A set of containers? Buildings? And did they put them this way on purpose to spell out a letter or number? And if so what? Zoom out with the minus-sign to see where [...]
Transmitting via the iPhone without jailbreaking it
I put together a tutorial for my photojournalist friends who want to know how they can transmit images from the field to an FTP server via the iPhone when on assignment. This is a typical problem for photojournalists. They’re far from a WiFi hotspot, paying for a USB modem is expensive but they need to [...]
What’s in a name?
I guess I should state for the record that Hawaii247.com is NOT a blog. Yes it uses a CMS, Content Management System, (i.e. WordPress, Drupal, PHPWebSite, etc) to publish but Hawaii247.com contains content by many authors. Typically a blog is used by an individual to post things, most popularly a personal journal, a photo album, [...]
News sans-paper
Yes, it’s true, I’ve started a news site. Hawaii247.com This is just the beginning and I hope it can serve the community with the news and information it needs. In this day and age of the internet it just doesn’t make sense to ship in tons of paper and ink to Hawaii, truck it around [...]
I’ll give 10 an 8 on a scale of 1-10
If you’re a WordPress blogger then don’t upgrade your computer to Adobe Flash Player 10 as it will break your Flash upload feature. You can still upload using Browser Upload but it isn’t as nifty as the Flash version. If you got suckered into being on the bleeding edge like me and did the upgrade [...]
Adios Adobe
(non-photo geeks may want to skip over this post) Adobe has released their Camera Raw 4.6 plug-in for Macs and Windows versions of Photoshop CS3. This plug-in allows CS3 (aka Photoshop v10) to open the latest RAW files from new digital cameras. The problem is that Adobe says 4.6 is the last update to Camera [...]
Opening Pandora’s box
Amazon.com WidgetsI’ve been listening to this album by The Black Keys almost constantly the past few weeks, not sure why I never listened to them before. I found them via Pandora on my iPhone while listening to the White Stripes. I’ve used Pandora plenty of times before on my laptop but having it on [...]
