Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Devils Tower: "This week in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation setting aside Devils Tower, a 650-foot-high volcanic shaft on the Wyoming plains, as the first national monument in the United States. Over the next 10 years, Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and..." (Via About U.S./Canadian Parks.) 8:11:21 AM

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0: "Adobe Systems has today announced Photoshop Elements 4.0. The lite version of Adobe's professional image editing program Photoshop, offers a new automatic red-eye removal function, which detects face shapes in images and removes red-eye as photos are downloaded from the camera. It also features a new Magic Selection brush for adjustments to specific parts of an image as well as Magic Extractor and new Skin Tone Adjustment. Adobe has developed the tagging feature found in Elements 3.0 with the new Face..." (Via Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com).) 8:09:30 AM

Adobe Camera Raw 3.2 Released: " Adobe has released Adobe Camera Raw update 3.2. This update adds raw support for the following cameras: Konica Minolta Maxxum 5D (Alpha Sweet Digital, Alpha-5 Digital, Dynax 5D) , Leaf Valeo 17, Leaf Aptus 22, Nikon D2Hs, Nikon D70s, Nikon D50, Nikon Coolpix 8400, Nikon Coolpix 8800, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30, Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1 and Pentax *ist DS. " (Via Digital Camera Websites: Digital Photography News - The Latest Digital Photography News.) 8:09:06 AM

Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch: "The Wall Street Journal has a long front-page article describing how Jim Allchin approached Bill Gates in July, 2004, with the news that then-Longhorn, now-Vista, was 'so complex that its writers would never be able to make it run properly.' Also, the article says, 'Throughout its history, Microsoft had let thousands of programmers each produce their own piece of computer code, then stitched it together into one sprawling program. Now, Mr. Allchin argued, the jig was up. Microsoft needed to start over.' And start over they did. The article is astonishing for its frank comments from the principles, including Allchin and Gates, as well as for its description of Microsoft's cowboy spaghetti code culture." (Via osViews | osOpinion.) 7:54:37 AM

Google Video adds Mac support: Well, kind of. Google Video no longer requires users to download a separate player, so videos can be viewed right in a browser. The size of the video window is dependent on the size of your browser window. I just watched some of Everybody Hates Chris without a problem. No, it's not specifically Mac support so much as it is general web support, but at least we can use it now. Baby steps, Google. Baby steps. (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) 7:51:55 AM

iPodObserver - Subway Maps for Your iPod, Sort Of: "The Man has come down a site called iPod Subway Maps. In this case, The Man took the form of both the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) organization, both of which asked the site to remove maps taken from their respective Web sites due to copyright infringement (Via The ipodObserver.) 7:50:24 AM

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