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"Good artists create. Great artists steal." --Pablo Picasso

Changes: removed everything related to Google Reader.. :)

Digital Photography

A very interesting article on the "full frame" debate. I couldn't agree more with the author.

Photo Hardware

Nikon D70 / Nikon 18-70 / Nikon 50 1.8 / Sigma 70-300 / Nikon SB800

Two pages with settings of D70:

• John Koontz settings
• Ken Rockwell settings

Photo Software

I've got two sites where I put my pics, both google of course:

• My Picasa Web Albums (now G+ photos..)
• Reality Tunnels on Blogger

Software I use for importing and managing pictures are:

• DigiKam for importing from the camera, managing, creating HTML, putting comments, etc. The latest version 0.9 seems like a major evolution with 16 bits handling, many many plugins (raw conversion, lens distortion, etc.) and the ability to set tags and comments directly inside the pictures in the standard EXIF/IPTC fields instead of inside an SQL database (non interoperable of course). I'm eagerly waiting for Ubuntu Feisty to try it and might even try to recompile the whole KDE worls just to get it!!! :-)
• Picasa (Linux version) for viewing slideshows, and slight enhancements before printing, and publishing to picasaweb (awesome easy-to-use features!)
• GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program for heavy work (removing noise, raw conversion, etc.)

Photo Sites

Digital Photography Review (dpreview)

News Photo numérique (in french)

Chasseur d'Image (in french)

What the duck photography comics

Many more to come...

Digital Music

soon : my ripping/managing/listening workflow (as it's much easier than for the pictures! :-)

Web Tools

Google Products I am using

Like my son would say (talking about his prefered vanilla cream brand), "If it's not 100% Google, I don't want to use it!" :-). Anyway, among all the Google services that are available, I am already a fan of a couple (?) of them:

• GMail of course, for its superior UI, junk filter, integrated talk, etc.
• GTalk (using PSI) for chating with both workmates, family (spouse and dad!) and friends
• Alerts on work topics and personal passions forwarded to gmail and to my work mail
• Web Search of course, with a Personalized Homepage
• News, Images, and more importantly Groups searches
• Picasa for Linux as I'm a big fan of photography
• I intend to grow my Google Bookmarks with the help of (non-G) Firefox GBookmarks
  • I am testing Calendar and Docs & Spreadsheets
• Google Earth for Linux and Google Maps are very nice,
• and I guess, I also use...Google Page Creator ! :-)

More to come, I imagine, knowing that they make an announcement every other day...

Linux

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