Photographers who use DxO PhotoLab 5 know the pain of not being able to edit RAW images from their new cameras for many months, even years.
Video of the Week: Pets by Porno for Pyros
Porno for Pyros "Pets" (1993) is a prophetic song, presaging a time when governments would seek to RFID not just pets but their human subjects.
VOW: New Year’s Eve Bratislava 2021 Street Music
Video of Jan Nedvědi's "Máme jen sebe". Happy New Year FV Player users and lovers of good music! Much love and good cheer to you in 2022.
Privacy: Iridium, unGoogled Chromium, Brave Browser face off
All of Iridium, unGoogled Chromium and Brave Browser make bold claims for privacy. Talk is cheap and fortunately the EFF is here to referee.
How to publish full size images in WordPress
There are two choices to disable the default nanny function which limits image size in Wordpress to 2560px. There's no GUI but here's how to do it.
How to customise OS X safely: TinkerTool and TinkerTool System
TinkerTool offers a consistent interface to tweak OS X hidden preferences for over a decade now across a dozen OS X versions.
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. Is the excerpt stripping characters?
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.
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.
