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iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak is here

Frank Koehntopp — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:35:34 PDT

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Aperture and iPhoto now support the Olympus OM-D E-M5

Frank Koehntopp — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:02:02 PDT

Apple has released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.13 which brings support for new cameras:

- Canon EOS-1D X
- Nikon D800E
- Nikon D3200
- Olympus OM-D E-M5
- Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GF5
- Sony Alpha SLT-A57

You can get it via Software update. I haven’t tried it yet, but I have used Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate 2 which also supports the OM-D:

Picture taken with the 12-50mm kit lens – amazing!

Amazon Warehouse currently lists the Olympus OM-D E-M5 from EUR 1.000,09!

Weekend Bliss

Frank Koehntopp — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:45:29 PDT

Back from a fantastic weekend with way too much food ;) with @silentpenguin and family. Lots of gadget talk, Drawsomething (now my wife suddenly needs an iPhone…) and more fun.

Can’t think of a better way to spend a weekend, very relaxing. If only it weren’t a 350km drive…

Not like everybody else

Frank Koehntopp — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:09:56 PDT

We don’t talk about “///”

Frank Koehntopp — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:54:05 PDT

Watch this video on YouTube.

TUAW has the back story, and this week’s Macbreak Weekly also features some more tidbits from the filmmaker

Pixoto.com – Hot Or Not meets Flickr

Frank Koehntopp — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:08:46 PDT

If you’re a photographer you probably enjoy getting feedback on your pictures, and – let’s be frank – there’s a vanity aspect, too.

One way to do that is to post your pictures to as many Flickr groups as possible, which has the weird effect that most viewers only comment to get you to link to their own pictures. On Flickr my preferred way is to post to a few dedicated feedback groups where you get constructive feedback instead.

Pixoto is a site that I recently learned about in an episode of This Week In Photo. It’s yet another site where you can upload your images (without a Lightroom plugin), and people get to vote on the image in direct comparison to another image in the same category, like on hotornot.com.

The site fosters participation through a credit system – in order to upload an image you need to gain a certain number of credits by voting on images. This is a great way of making sure people stay active.

I like the site quite a bit and would invite you to join – see you there!

Steve

Frank Koehntopp — Sun, 06 May 2012 02:52:23 PDT

Dull grey rainy day outside, so I’m playing indoors ;)

Pentax K-5 Kit ab 756,99

Frank Koehntopp — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:02:32 PDT

Zu meiner großen Freude hat Pentax für die K-5 derzeit wieder ein attraktives Cashback-Angebot (gültig von 1. Mai – 15. Juli 2012). Beim Kauf eines Bodys erhält man 50,–, bei einem Kit mit Objektiv sogar 80,–. Das das 18-55 WR Kit nur ca. 30 Euro teurer ist als der Body ist das ein no-Brainer.

Die K-5 ist sicherlich eine der besten APS-C Kameras am Markt:

- Kompaktes wasserdichtes (!) Gehäuse
- Gleicher Sony 16MP Sensor wie z.B. die Nikon D7000
- Bildstabilisator im Gehäuse, d.h. die Objektive werden tendenziell günstiger
- Hervorragendes High-ISO Verhalten
- DNG RAW files direkt aus der Kamera

Und so funktioniert das Angebot:

- Pentax K-5 18-55WR Kit kaufen

- Cashback-Seite aufrufen

- Registrieren und Belege verschicken

Ich habe das Angebot schon einmal wahrgenommen, das Geld kommt nach kurzer Zeit direkt auf euer Konto.

Weitersagen!

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iPhone 4S camera awesomeness

Frank Koehntopp — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:14:42 PDT

I’m usually shooting DSLRs. I can’t stand mobile phone shots, and I really don’t like how Instagram degrades the image quality of the pictures you post.

Then again, there are these moments when you look at an iPhone shot and are simply blown away. This is one of those moments.

I know why my Flickr views suddenly started to go up….

Frank Koehntopp — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:24:21 PDT

Olympus OM-D EM-5 12-50mm Macro Shot

Frank Koehntopp — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:43:12 PDT

JPG straight out of cam. Fantastic what this little package is capable of….

(Click through to Flickr for the full size image – unedited…)

Btw., Amazon has the OM-D EM-5 with the 12-50mm lens in stock!

Cory Doctorow Keynote at Datendialog 2012

Frank Koehntopp — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:04:05 PDT

Watch this video on YouTube.

As usual, Cory explains privacy issues better than everybody else.

Oftentimes people find it different to understand why seemingly simple privacy decisions like giving away tiny bits of information about yourself has long term privacy implications, and why humans are bad at evaluation their part in the privacy bargain.

Definitely worth 24 minutes of your time.

Trullo bei Flonheim

Frank Koehntopp — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:04:11 PDT

Wingertsturm bei Alzey

Frank Koehntopp — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:02:49 PDT

Amazon greift den Mac AppStore an

Frank Koehntopp — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:45:57 PDT

Seit dieser Woche bietet Amazon.de den Kauf von Software per Download an. Anwendungen und Spiele, PC und Mac. Tolle Sache. Im Detail wird das spannend wenn man sich mal den Mac Bereich ansieht.

WISO Steuer 2012 kostet im Mac AppStore 34,99:

Amazon bietet das gleiche Programm für 24,99 an, also 10 Euro günstiger!

Man darf gespannt sein wie Apple darauf reagiert (der Preisunterschied entspricht übrigens in etwas dem 30% Anteil den Apple von Anbietern nimmt…). Nicht vergessen sollte man auch den Komfort, den der AppStore bietet (automatische Updates etc.) sowie Apple’s Politik die Installation einer gekauften Software auf 5 Rechnern zu erlauben.

Aber, frischer Wind und Konkurrenz sind immer gut.

Link zum Mac Download-Store bei Amazon.de

SAP WDF02 – The Pendulum

Frank Koehntopp — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:58:44 PDT

I always wanted to get a good shot of that, today the sky was just perfect.

Monsheim, Weingut Wiesenmühle

Frank Koehntopp — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:39:41 PDT

Ich habe mir für dieses Jahr vorgenommen die schönsten Ecken Rheinhessens zu fotografieren. Heute kam ich in Monsheim an einer schönen Allee vorbei, die zum Weingut Wiesenmühle führt:

Auch in S/W nicht übel, finde ich:

Readability Links von November 30, 1999 bis April 16, 2012

Administrator — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:13:13 PDT

- How We Will Read
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Home Office (incl. weekend quiz)

Frank Koehntopp — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:03:28 PDT

This picture features 6 IT companies (one probably only identifiable by insiders) and one photography company.

Can you identify them all? Go to the Flickr image and add your guesses through notes.

Twitter needs better anti-spam heuristics

Frank Koehntopp — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:21:34 PDT

If you ever tweeted something with “iPad” in the text this probably has happened to you: within a few minutes you’ll receive a tweet like the one above with some cryptic link, or the promise of a new iPad. While I discourage clicking on links in any case (we spent years educating users to verify links from unknown sources, the Twitter and its shortlinks came along…), this just shouls not be possible in the first place.

Behaviour like this should be easy enough to catch, really.

New account, no or extremely few followers, tweets all @-replies
Almost all posts include linls, which are mostly identical (or lead to the same site)

If you identify this, block the account for @-replies until they can somehow verify. Or set a quota for the number of followers vs. @-replies.

Really annoying, it’s a disgrace Twitter has not been acting on this yet.