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Comment on Babies, Cameras. by Clint Edmonson

Clint Edmonson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:23:05 +0000

Hi Paul. Thanks for the nod. I bought the camera for the same reason and have since Mother's day have taken almost 4000 pictures. This camera is so good, you won't want to put it down. I take it everywhere. Definitely spring for the 55-200 lens. That's the one I use the most.

Also, these books have been invaluable: The Digital Photography Book Vol 1 & 2 by Scott Kelby, and Photographing Children Photo Workshop by Genny Felch and Allison Tyler Jones.

Enjoy!
Clint Edmonson

Comment on Babies, Cameras. by Mark Blackford

Mark Blackford — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:16:51 +0000

Great camera, I personally like Panasonic Lumix stuff. But trust me you will still need a point and click camera too - think about getting a good camera phone, a 5MP, like Samsung Tocco, Nokia N96 and LG Viewty.

All the best.

Comment on Easy Configuration by tacone

tacone — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:27 +0000

Oh, thank you very much. We're paying a fair amount of attention to the GUI details, so nice to know you like it

Comment on Easy Configuration by admin

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:58:49 +0000

Yeah like whatever Dude.....;)

Comment on Easy Configuration by foo

foo — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:09:04 +0000

Dude, you're writing like a 10 year old!

Comment on Create Tomboy notes from Firefox by Life Clerks » Tomfox Shuttles Web Text into Tomboy Notes [Featured Firefox Extension]

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:55:59 +0000

[...] Linux with Firefox only: Free Firefox extension Tomfox does exactly what a fan of the Tomboy note system might think. Adding a “Create Tomboy note” option to Firefox’s right-click menu, it creates a new note from selected text. Even better, it puts the title of the web page at the top, and a link to the page at the bottom of your new note, helping you remember just where you grabbed that text from. Tomfox is a free download, works with Linux/Firefox and the Tomboy note program. Tomfox [via Paul Mellors] [...]

Comment on Ubuntu + Video Editing by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:59:56 +0000

A faster computer will do the trick, the time it took seems pretty normal to me on that kind of computer regardless of the OS.

Comment on Ubuntu + Video Editing by Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:10:33 +0000

Of the 3.5 hours total, you said it took 3 hours to encode the video. That could possibly be speeded up a little by using 64-bit linux, more memory, doing less whilst it's running, or using multiple cores (if available) for the encoding.

The rest took half an hour which seems good to me.

Comment on Ubuntu - Wubi by paul

paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:55:43 +0000

wubi is fantastic. that is how i run HH at work with all the eye candy (including flash, troy:) and no performance issues. Also, there are articles about extending an existing disk or adding additional disk, but i find it easy to backup my home directory and do a reinstall.

NOW all we need is something comparable for linux. so far no happy joy joy with lubi or unetbootin. lubi is not updated for HH and unetbootin wants a real disk partition.

Comment on Vmware console by paul

paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:38 +0000

not sure what your issue was with the native installer for vmware console. i'm running the latest and greatest (server and console) on 8.0.4. with no issues. there was some futzing i had to do, but found it easily on ubuntu forums. personally, i only use win32 apps under wine as a last resort. my experience is that even when you get them started, you usually run into some issues (display, stability) somewhere up the road.

thanks for an interesting blog. i enjoyed the tomboy entry. there was a bit to do beyond your article for syncing with other machines, but its a worthwhile effort. if you want notes, i could give them to you for an update.

now onto getting them synced with evolution.