Author Archives: frankson

sIFR

I’ve taken an interest in Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) but it is way to much work to use for the crap I might want to use it for. There is a WordPress cg-Flashytitles that looks like it would work but I think the version is wrong or incompatible with WordPress 2.1.

It would be even better if sIFR eventually used SVG. 

sIFR 3 beta 1 exists as of December 2006 so I am glad it is still in active development. I can’t tell how long it will be before a useful plugin for WordPress exists with the new version.

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Component Out

I saw a post mentioning component out for HDTV and decided to pursue my desire to get fancy HDTV out on my current TV. Looking into it, the XFX 6800xt card I have will probably not work with a component out adapter. The old Ti4200 will not have enough pixel shader power to do anything for me. This leaves me more stuck than I would prefer. It isn’t that I am close to pursuing such a upgrade but that this video card that would otherwise find use will not be useful now is annoying.

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Faststone 2.9

My favorite replacement for ACDSee v3 from a decade ago. Still being developed. Light enough and very well featured. I doubt there are any important improvements with this version but it is installed regardless.

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Astaro v7

Astaro went v7 General Availability. I am not upgrading at this time. The enhancements are not important to me. There is also no tool for upgrading without a re-installation yet or a way to import v6 configurations. If I decide to upgrade the hardware my firewall runs on, I might go ahead with the v7 upgrade but that is more work for me. I do have spare faster hardware laying about but I am not sure what is reliable anymore.

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Aspell

I could not leave well enough alone and had to really fix the spell checker. Installed Aspell binaries and a dictionary and poof it works. Very nice.

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Xinha for WordPress v1.2b

Since I was having issues with the default WordPress WYSIWYG editor, and a theme I was using, I decided to try another editor plugin. Xinha seems to work fine and it fixes my spell check issue since the WordPress update but it still does not work with that theme. I will now blame the theme and stop trying to fix it. For now.

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WordPress 2.1

WordPress 2.1 was released on 01.22.2007. Upgrading looks like a total bitch. Here goes nothing.

EDIT: Done. Went well.

EDIT2: Well. I broke the anime weblog’s ability to post with the visual editor and the theme I was using (lowstream) even after I upgraded the software to current. I’ve swaped themes at least for now and it seems to have fixed things. I lost a LONG post in the process.

EDIT3: The spell checker in the visual editor also seems broke.

EDIT4: Lowstream 2.2.4 seems to have fixed my visual editor issue.

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Product Photography and Everglades

That Hyperdrive I got for my trip to Tibet stopped working. Hard drive appears to be dead. Testing replacement but that might not be working out.

Product photography at a location seems to suck ass. Especially with no experience and no information beforehand about what the task is. If they turn out useful, I will be glad but still will not have enjoyed the task. I had a real hard time with the D200 and SB800 in wireless mode. Never got it working. Wound up using the flash on hotshoe and bouncing the light off a reflector. iTTL has so far not been my friend. If i only had a sync cable.

I broke out the 70-200VR at the Everglades National Park. Wasn’t even the biggest dork there. There was a couple with longish zooms set on tripods. That 70-200 on a cropped sensor was an ideal focal length for shooting at the Glades. Wildlife was always very very close and did not spook easy. It was much better than shooting at a zoo where I find 300mm optimal. I don’t have any of the shots processed so I won’t know if I have any nice ones for a few days but I suspect I have a few very nice bird shots.

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