I've been using for about two years now, and today I found the stats page (you need to log in to view your stats). No idea if this is new, but it sure gives a nice breakdown on your photo activity.
Sad Times
I usually don't put too much personal stuff on my blog. But every once in a while things happen. Things you have to do.... reluctantly.
As of yesterday, I'm no longer the (proud) owner of two of my cats. Both Isabella and Lilly went to a new owner. Four cats was just too much to take care of (all of them were 'left-overs' of a previous relationship).
I miss them already :sad: .
Photoshop CS3 Watermark / Frame Action
Ever since I started uploading photos onto the Internet I needed a way of 'protecting' my images. I could choose to upload a very small photo, with terrible JPEG artifact, but that's not the way you want to be remembered. Especially today. Today we have the bandwidth and the online storage to upload large images, so why not do that.
If you don't want that other people (or companies) to (financially) benefit from your hard work (1, 2, 3), you may want to 'tag' your photos. Just to make sure who created the original image.
When you shoot lot's of photos and share them with others on the Internet, you don't want to manipulate each photo. You would want to automate this.
Thankfully, there are numerous programs out there that can do such a thing. Some are free (free as in speech, and free as in beer), and others are commercially available.
PhotoTrackr Pro. Mac Compatible
The GiSTEQ Corporation has released a OSX compatible version of their software for managing the Phototrackr GPS unit.
I hope that more will follow, because there not that many OSX compatible devices out there. The good thing is that e.g. PhotoGPSEditor DOES support RAW photos (at least Nikon's RAW format).
HDR Test
I got my wire remote (MC-30) for the Nikon D300 recently. Finally able to start shooting in the dark (on a tripod) without the fear of movement unsharpness.
More photos on my flickr page
Major Wordpress 2.6 Bug
A couple of days ago I upgraded to Wordpress v2.6. After the upgrade I opened the blog, and added a new post. Both of those actions worked properly.
After the upgrade I noticed a major decrease in comment and trackback spam. But today I discovered the real reason why comments AND page views were close to zero.
There's a bug in Wordpress 2.6 where the permalinks are not working correctly. If you're using permalinks with the date, name, etc. (e.g. /index.php/switched-to-mac/) you get a 'Not Found' error. A definite WTF moment.
When you change the permalinks setup in the wordpress admin pages to default the pages/posts are accessible again. It seems that the issue is known and will be fixed in Wordpress 2.6.1. Untill then, most of the Google search results which end up on my website will result in a 'Not Found' error.
I would go back to an earlier version if I could. After the upgrade (which I thought that worked correctly) I removed the 2.5 installment... Yet another lesson for the future.
UPDATE: the pageviews are returning to normal :)
Lightroom 2.0
Adobe has released Lightroom 2.0.
The new features for this release are (my favorites);
- 64bit support
- >10.000 pixel wide images (finally able to add a decent panorama to Lightroom)
- Multiple monitor support
An overview of the (new) features can be found here.
UPDATE: I've been playing with the dual display feature for a couple of hours. This is definitelly a major enhancement. Finally, a real workplace of 2 * 24" widescreen.
Don't Vote For This Guy
FireFox 3 Bug??
Like most security conscious people I use Firefox (FF) for my everyday browsing on the Internets. So when the Mozilla guys released version 3 I installed it on all my machines (2 Windows and 2 OSX platforms).
It was a bit getting used to. The underlying FF part had been changed. Bookmarks, history etc are all stored in sqlite databases. So no more flatfiles. This took me a couple of hours to figure it out, but finally I got 'there'.
Using FF was business as usual... Apart from one very annoying bug; Opening new windows (not new tabs) results often in an empty bookmarks bar. And this is happening on Windows and OSX versions of FF.
The bookmarks are 'there' but not click-able. Using the right mouse button (on OSX: ctrl-mouse click) on the bookmarks bar and selecting 'Open All in Tabs', FF opens every bookmark in the bar.
The only way of restoring the proper bar is the completely shutdown FF and restart it. After that it works for a certain amount of time.
The problem isn't isolated to my environment. Just google on the issue, and you'll find more people. There's one suggestion I haven't tried yet. Starting with a fresh/clean profile, but I do need my settings/passwords/bookmarks. I'm lost without those :(
UPDATE: I tried a new profile, and this seemed to work. After this I started to repopulate the new profile with the old settings, etc. Everything went fine until the point where I added the extensions. It seems that even old / not active extensions (SwitchProxy in my case) are still able to f*ck things up.
Upgrading is Getting Easier
Normally I would be planning a Wordpress update/upgrade, because I have made several changes to some core files. Just to make life a little easier (mostly mail related).
But this time, I had about ten minutes to spare, and 'what the heck.., why not upgrade this minute?'.
Well 3 minutes later everything was up and running again (I even upgraded PHP to a more recent version in the same timeframe). Either I'm getting better at this, or upgrading has been made much easier :)
UPDATE: there's also 'some' improvement on catching commentspam. Before the upgrade I had about 20-30 comment/trackback spams in my Aksimet queue. But since the update the queue remains empty :-)