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August 2010 earnings breakdown

melastmohican — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:18:45 +0000

Overall slightly worse than previous month, maybe 5% less. Top 3 are staying on the same positions. SS is first, also slightly worse than in July. 123RF is below this year’s average while DT keeps basically same level for last 3 months. IS after few month of growth starts sliding down. FT got worst month this year. SXP came back from dead, still weak but soon might be better than FT. So far ThinkStock experiment is not very optimistic. SXP produces 1/3 of what it used to do before Getty acquired them. Finally all others combined are less then SXP. On the side note, Veer results are shown but it is effect of using free credits given to me in promotion. I purchased my own photos

AUG 2010 Microstock



		Aug		Aug/Jul

SS		55.23%	97.24%

123RF	13.00%	73.32%

DT		9.98%	102.78%

IS		7.27%	83.10%

Veer	4.31%

FT		3.92%	56.54%

SXP		3.56%	157.89%

BS		0.95%	200.00%

CSP		0.71%	63.83%

FP		0.47%

YM		0.47%

CS		0.12%	20.00%

		95.83%

AUG 2010 Microstock Trend

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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT

Palm has released the webOS 2.0 Beta SDK to developers

melastmohican — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:27:28 +0000

Palm introduced webOS 2.0, the next generation web-based operating system! We’ve got lots of new and updated
features to make your apps more powerful and flexible. New features include:

Stacks – grouping related cards in stacks, reducing clutter, and making it even easier to move quickly between task
Quick Actions – Start an email, create a message, update your status, search your favorite websites—all without having to launch an app
Apps can have custom Touchstone at-a-glance views with Exhibition
Synergy is opening up to developers
HTML5 and Javascript support is much improved
Hybrid PDK/SDK apps will be fully supported

webOS 2.0 SDK Beta

Lightroom 3.2 update now available

melastmohican — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:06:21 +0000

Lightroom 3.2 is now available as final releases on Adobe.com.

Adobe Lightroom 3

The version 3.2 update includes these enhancements:

Direct publishing to Facebook and SmugMug is now available
Tethered capture now supports the Leica S2
Fixed authentication issues that could be experienced with the Facebook publish collection
Adressed performance issues that could occur while reviewing images in Loupe view
Corrected several Adobe Photoshop Elements upgrade issues
Corrected a file renaming bug involving date or time fields
Export with watermark will now function correctly when choosing the Limit File Size option
Additional camera support for several new camera models including the Panasonic DMC-LX5, Sony NEX-5 and Canon EOS 60D and over 120 new lens profiles

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Google Voice in Gmail

melastmohican — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:53:21 +0000

Google Voice has become a part of Gmail. You’ll need to install the Google voice and video chat plug-in. Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free. International calling rates are available here. Dialing a phone number works just like a normal phone. Just click “Call phone” at the top of your chat list and dial a number or enter a contact’s name.

Google Voice in Gmail

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta launch

melastmohican — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:15:20 +0000

Microsoft will hold a gala in San Francisco on September 15th to celebrate “The Beauty of the Web”, official launch of IE9 Beta.

Palm Pre+ GPS issues update

melastmohican — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:00:05 +0000

For a while I was not able to use GPS hardware on my Palm Pre+. Some people suggested that it might be crippled by Verizon since they want to sell subscriptions for their GPS software – Verizon Navigator. I read reports claiming that when you start Navigator first, GPS working in other apps auto-magically. This thing was probably inspiration for writing a small app called GPS Fix. GPS Fix is designed to wake your GPS, then keep it alive by continually pinging it at a set interval. I got following recipe to make possible to use SmartRunner to track my cycling rides.

Start GPS Fix and enable it
Call Verizon Navigator from GPS Fix and wait until it will ask you to purchase this app.
Start SmartRunner.
Wait. I figured out that it takes a while to sync with satellites. Unlike my PhotoTrackr device it cannot really sync when I am moving. That was always problem cause I am used to start and let it sync while I am riding. This is not working with GPS hardware from Pre+. Once you are synced you can start tracking in SmartRunner and GPS Fix will keep pinging hardware to make sure it will be running.

HTML 5 Test

melastmohican — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:09:01 +0000

I found a test page that will check your browser compliance with HTML 5 standard. I am using mostly Firefox at work and at home. I quickly run tests for 3 different browsers on my Mac and it seems like FF is not a champion of HTML 5.

1) Firefox 3.6.8 – scored 139/300 mostly because it has 0 or 1 in 6 categories: Parsing Rules,Local Devices, Elements, Forms, Microdata, WebGL

2) Safari 5.0.1 – scored 208/300. Still 5 categories were not covered.

3) Chrome 6.0.472.25 – is a winner with score 217/300. It looks like 4 categories are not yet implemented.

It seems like all browsers fully support Canvas, Geolocation and Workers. Safari and Chrome got almost 100% in Audio and Video categories, each one got one codec missing. Safari got best support for Forms and Web Applications but is totally behind in Files category.

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Afternoon walk [Flickr]

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Mother and duagther walking with a stroller

Poznań [Flickr]

melastmohican — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:44:02 PDT

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Poznań Old Town is a central neighbourhood of the city of Poznań in western Poland, covering the area of the walled medieval city of Poznań.

Short route from work to home

melastmohican — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:50:54 +0000

I moved from Cupertino to Mountain View and my daily commute has been reduced by few miles. It used to be 9 miles one way. Now it is only 3.6 miles if I go straight so I have to find longer route. Unfortunately part of it is now resurfaced so I am taking short way to work and back.

Work to Home

July 2010 earnings breakdown

melastmohican — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:05:20 +0000

Overall worst month of the year. SS recovered a little from disaster last month but average performance of others was not good enough to make better numbers. For a second month SXP got results from ThinkStock and it way below it used to be before IStock acquired it. I guess it is a middle of summer slow down.

Jul Jul/Jun SS 55.31% 138.68% 123RF 17.26% 49.43% DT 9.46% 104.06% IS 6.91% 57.76% FT 6.74% 129.41% SXP 2.19% 316.67% CSP 1.08% 391.67% BS 0.46% 18.18% CS 0.58% 500.00% 95.52%

JUL 2010 Microstock

JUL 2010 Microstock Trend

My first week with Palm Pre

melastmohican — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:19:39 +0000

This is my first smartphone so I cannot compare to my past experience. I decided to have Palm device cause I wanted two from the same manufacturer after we switched to Verizon due to reception problems in our new apartment. Also I wanted a smaller form factor than most of present smartphones. My wife was not very interested in smartphone so Pixi for her was also kind of compromise.

Palm Pre

Pros:

1. It is fast. GUI is really responsive and you only wait if you are connecting to outside world
2. Multitasking. You really can do many thing at once. Did not try if you can make calls while doing other things but music playing with surfing work.
3. Works as USB drive.
4. Syncs with my Gmail address book.
5. Video. Shoots better video than point’n'shooter even if it has less megapixels.

Cons:

1. Keyboard is pretty small or my hands are too big.
2. Entering numbers is a nightmare.
3. Battery life is very short.I would say it is more like 5h instead of advertised 8h. Do I really have to switch everything off?
4. No way to filter out Facebook contacts.
5. Photo. I am not so impressed with still camera. I need to do more test but built-in flash is not very good.