TinkerTool offers a consistent interface to tweak OS X hidden preferences for over a decade now across a dozen OS X versions.
Alec Kinnear
Creative Director
Alec has been working with video since 1995. Before founding Foliovision in 2004, he worked as a Head of Television for Grey Moscow and a TV producer at Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia. Alec maintains a photography and culture weblog at uncoy.com. Alec holds an Honours B.A. from Trinity College at the University of Toronto in Modern Languages and Literature.
Choosing a working colour space for photography: sRGB, AdobeRGB, Wide Gamut RGB or ProPhoto RGB
If you can’t see it, you can’t correct it. How to navigate a smooth path between colour spaces for web and print.
How to repair broken mp4, m4v and mkv videos with ffmpeg
Batch repair with no transcoding or generation loss! Since we are already on the command line, doing it in bash makes the most sense.
VOW: Russell Brand on Apple Surveillance
Ex-comedian Brand understands that a surveillance state, where security organs enjoy powers like the KGB and the Gestapo, is no laughing matter.
How to (re)enable QuickLook preview of XMP files on OS X
If you are having trouble previewing XMP files with Apple QuickLook you are not alone. Affinity Photo blocks QuickLook for .xmp file extension.
Overview of Code Editors for MacOS X in 2021: BBEdit, TextMate, Sublime Text, Coda/Nova, Atom, Visual Studio Code
There are different categories of coders and there is a best text editor for each category of coder: cross-platform, Mac-only.
Mac OS X publishing tools for WordPress: MarsEdit, Byword, Drafts and iAWriter
What’s particularly striking about working with MarsEdit is how much faster it is to open and save posts than the WordPress web interface.
Getty Images Extortion Letters – and how to defend yourself
In this licensing war, for now there is only one winner, scammers like Getty Images. Time to lay down the arms and find a solution.
How to create great-looking hardcoded subtitles
Outputting perfect hardcoded subtitles for social media sites like Facebook and Twitter is not as easy as it looks. Here’s how to do it.
Setting Background Opacity for partially transparent FV Player Subtitles | New User Experience
By installing it your self and digging into your own software as a new user, you can better understand improve user experience faster and better than any user group testing.
Horrific iPad Pro user experience trying to make a simple weblog post
Instead of taking half an hour to post a simple post to my weblog via my iPad Pro it took an hour and a half. Here’s why and how to improve.
Video lenses for Mirrorless: How sharp should a lens be, how wide the aperture?
What matters more than resolving power for video are weight, quiet focusing, focus shift and focus breathing.
OS X Image Resizer Review: ResizeMe, EasyBatchPhoto, PhotoBatcher, PhotoBulk, PhotoMill, Retrobatch, ThumbsUp, Adobe Lightroom
My own vote was initially for the more subtle and accurate render. Now that I’ve studied the results more closely, the sharper and blockier render also works.
Effective Video Communication: Consumer Reports Exposes Tesla’s Dangerous Autopilot
Clear videos where the auto-pilot car runs stop signs, red lights and shifts lanes dangerously make the point more effectively than stats.
The shortest path to directing major studio motion pictures: Christopher Nolan’s Following 1998
Time spent on story and storyboards will cut costs in half or two-thirds, while making it far more likely people will like the final result.
How to shoot low-cost high production value exteriors in 2020: behind the scenes of Nightshift
A lightweight camera and lens rig allow a filmmaker to shoot complex, expensive dolly and crane moves with no heavy equipment and minimal crew.
Video Stabilisation Test: iPhone 11 Pro vs Nikon Z6 vs Canon M6
If you ever wondered how the video stabilization in iPhone 11 compares to what’s in a Nikon or Canon camera, here’s a three-way shootout.
DxO PhotoLab: How to Build an Efficient Processing Workflow
The real key to an efficient workflow is to work systematically through each image. Start with only selects visible. Follow a linear workflow.
Dev Site – Staging Site Now Automatically Included with All Pro Licenses
From this week, there’s a separate field for a dev site in every licensed account.
Should iPhone users trust Apple’s promises about the iOS 13.5 Contact Tracing API?
iPad and iPhone users should be very wary of upgrading to iOS 13.5. There’s no path backwards: it will track and trace you in entirely new ways.
