April 2005 Archives
Raw Wars April 30, 2005 - Episode 7, Empire Resurrection…
If cars were like computers April 27, 2005 - For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason….
Metro April 27, 2005 - Microsoft releases a PDF clone code named “Metro” in the near future. This allows users to share, print and archive documents with greater flexibility. The royalty free viewer will be build in as part of Longhorn. This might be the…
Ansel's tiles April 26, 2005 - Ansel’s tiles; april 2005; nikon 5700; © janco tanis A photo of tiles converted to black and white. This is an extreme black and white which mimicks Ansel Adam’s (1902 - 1984) black and white photography… Ok, agreed, he…
Nikon 7900 review April 26, 2005 - The Nikon 7900 review is posted on dpreview! This review took a bit longer then I expected. When the Canon SD500 was reviewed on the 17th of April, the photos were compared to the Nikon 7900! Therefor I expected…
OpenSource Java IDE eclipses JBuilder April 25, 2005 - According to The Register is Borland giving code to the Eclipse project after a drop in the first quarter sales. I don’t think this is strange as Eclipse is a major platform and together with NetBeans there are no big…
News Map April 25, 2005 - News Map is a fantastic newreading tool base don google’s news. It tries to divide information into quickly recognizable colours and sizes the squares based on then importance of the news item….
OpenRAW.org April 25, 2005 - “After Canon dropped support for their Canon D30 DSLR in their latest software release and Nikon removed features of their own RAW converter Nikon Capture, plus the encryption of features in Nikon’s D2x digital camera RAW format (NEF), some…
Work April 23, 2005 - work; december 2002; nikon 5700; © janco tanis…
Nikon reacted... April 23, 2005 - Nikon reacted to the White Balance encryption hysteria on the net with an “Advisory”…
Nikon D50 and D70s officially announced April 20, 2005 - Today the Nikon D50 and upgrade to the D70 — the D70s — are officially announced. On dpreview a first preview of the D50 is shown. Also there is good news for D70 users as a lot of then…
Nikon Lens types April 20, 2005 - When the Nikon F came first on the market in 1959 it did not have any lenses and the lenses of Nikon rangefinder cameras were used with an adapter. AF - Auto Focus After a first try in 1983 with…
A Short History of Nearly Everything; ISBN 076790818X April 20, 2005 - This is the best book I read lately! It is both an entertaining book but also informing. Bill Bryson travels through history. From the “Big Bang” to the different specimen of mankind, from electrons and other tiny elements to…
Nikon encrypts white balance data April 19, 2005 - According Thomas Knoll in the Adobe forums, Nikon encrypts the white balence data on its D2x and D2Hs camera’s: “No, Nikon has never disclosed proprietary NEF data to Adobe. However, Nikon made a significant change with the Nikon D2X and…
Yellow and Red April 19, 2005 - Yellow and red; april 2005; nikon 5700; © janco tanis…
Nikon D50 and new lenses April 19, 2005 - This looks like the new Nikon D50. It will be there in black and silver body. Together with this camera, two new lenses will be available. First the AF-S 18-55DX f/3.5-5.6G and an also new lens, the AF-S 55-200DX…
Macromedia & Adobe join forces April 18, 2005 - I wonder where that will lead to!? New products like FireReady? I also wonder how JRun will be integrated within the Adobe toolset as this is one of the first products targeted at developers. “The combination of Adobe and Macromedia…
jPod April 17, 2005 - jPod also called Janco’s iPod…
A road ahead April 17, 2005 - A road ahead; december 2004; nikon 5700;© janco tanis…
Not very busy April 16, 2005 - around here with bloggers:…
Nikon apologizes April 16, 2005 - Nikon apologizes for the unofficial release of news about new products that has recently appeared on the Internet and will officially announce the products 20th of April. “News of our new digital SLR cameras is currently being prepared ahead of…
Google Maps April 11, 2005 - Google did something fantastic again! It included satellite images on their map service! Obviously this is not completely new, as Microsoft has something similar called Terra Service. The weird thing is that you get immediately a community around it because…
Comment spam April 3, 2005 - In the last three weeks I had over 3200 comment spam entries automatically denied. 63 entries got through onto my web sites comments. This is about 2% which now requires manual deletion. Thanks to Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist the work is…
Thanks XS4ALL April 3, 2005 - Just found out that by enabling the spamfilter, my email storage is enlarged from 25MB to 500MB. So no need to use my GMail account yet……
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