Want a home stereo to go with your iPod?

Just in case you want to put together a little system to go with your iPod, and perhaps impress your friends… here’s what the editors of Stereophile magazine think would do nicely: Turntable : Goldman Reference II turntable: $300,000 ToneArm: Continuum Audio Labs Cobra is $15,595 Cartridge: Clearaudio Goldfinger : $8000 Phone PreAmp: Boulder 2008: […]

ICE: In Case of Emergency

Besides cell phones, many of us carry USB flash sticks on our keychains. I’d like to suggest that we put a text file on those USB sticks, with contact information, allergies, medical conditions and all other useful information for first responders. Simple idea and could save your life.

ICE: In Case of Emergency

Besides cell phones, many of us carry USB flash sticks on our keychains. I’d like to suggest that we put a text file on those USB sticks, with contact information, allergies, medical conditions and all other useful information for first responders. Simple idea and could save your life.

Hello world!

Welcome to MacTips, by the original author of MacHotTips for MacHome Journal. (How’s that for antique?) I’ve just set this up on June 18, so there’s lots to come. Bear with me.

Images in show at Triton Museum

The Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA, will be featuring four of my images in their exhibition “Selections From Our Permanent Collection: Photographs” which runs from August 17th until October 27th.

Don’t use black backgrounds for editing photos

While dark environments, such as Apple’s Mojave, or the default settings for Photoshop & Pixelmator Pro, may look fashionable, they are terrible for editing photos. Why? Because they screw up your ability to see tones properly. Using a dark background will trick your mind into producing a print that has clogged up shadows, and is […]

On copyright (US)

on copyright. First: INAL (I’m not a laywer.)I have, however,  read and closely followed copyright for a decade or more. Here are some quick, general points: “Prior to what year are works in the public domain?”1926. (It’s 2021 now, and with extensions, copyright attaches for 95 years.) In general, for works created on or after […]

Solo show at the Triton

“Contiguous: Line of Sight” is my  solo show at The Triton Museum of Art, in Santa Clara, California. It runs from Feb 10 to May 13, 2018. You are cordially invited to drop by at any time.

MPC Art Gallery show

The Monterey Peninsula Art Gallery exhibition (myself and my wife) actually started on October 3rd, but  the opening was on the 13th. I’m just back, and a friend took this picture of my wife’s presentation. Thought I share it.  

Fast, excellent raw file viewer

  Need a fast and accurate camera raw file viewer? This one, cleverly named “FastRawViewer” is well worth a look, not to mention the extremely modest fee: http://www.fastrawviewer.com/ Scroll to the bottom of the page for some reviews by names you’ll likely recognize. The same folks wrote RawDigger, so they know whereof the speak… (so […]