Photos app updated on iCloud
Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major…
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Thirty days of images
Each morning, at around 9am Eastern, a new image is published to my blog. I schedule these posts each weekend (I even built a WordPress plugin to help me) and they publish…
How to fix bad thumbnails in Photos on macOS Sierra
Since updating to macOS Sierra my Photos library will show some bad thumbnails that are either completely black or have black "bars" on them. Here is just one example that I managed…
Exploring Conservation Island in Promised Land State Park
It takes me just over an hour get to Promised Land State Park. (See also, park map.) Because it isn't too close to home I've only been to this park twice. Once…
Save your Faces before upgrading to macOS Sierra
I've been tweeting, and created a Moment, regarding the fact that Photos on macOS Sierra has gotten rid of the "Faces" feature in favor of a new "People" feature. This wipes out all…
Dan Rubin’s iPhone 7 Plus ring light portraits
Friend Dan Rubin took the new iPhone 7 Plus out for a test-drive using a ring light. On whether or not the iPhone 7 Plus is the best smartphone to get for…
Tips for new drone owners
After a few weeks of trial and error, (lots, and lots of error) video tutorial binging, manual devouring, and literally swimming for and losing my first UAV, I thought it might be…
Taking flight
I had been thinking and talking about buying a UAV, drone, quadcopter* (whatever you personally call them) for a long time now. Many months. When they first hit the scene they were…
Add a hobby that forces you to explore
I've been thinking a lot about a quote Matt Mullenweg wrote about earlier this year. It reads: Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and…
What Photos for OS X and iOS will be able to automatically detect in iOS 10
Alternate title: My hopes are low for object detection in the new Photos but I still have hope Reddit user vista980622 dig some digital sleuthing and may have come up with the list of…
Got Loop’d
It is always a pleasure to be linked to from The Loop. Yesterday, one of my posts about Photos for OS X and what I think can be done to improve it,…
Wirelessly transfer files from a GoPro using any computer without software
Follow me on Twitter. And be sure to subscribe to my blog. (Skip to the bottom of this post if you just want to know how to connect to your GoPro using…
Thomasz Furmanek, Kayaker, Instagrammer
I've been following Thomasz Furmanek on Instagram for a few years already (right around the time I got my first kayak, the Oru Kayak, which is the same one Furmanek uses). I liked…
Improving Photos for OS X and iOS and iCloud Photo Library
I’ll start out this post, as most empathic developers would, by saying that I realize how hard syncing is. It is incredibly hard to get right. The fact that it works at…
Microsculpture by Levon Bliss
Incredible composite photos of insects by Levon Bliss. My final images are made up of somewhere between 8 and 10 thousand images. He takes as many photos of one insect as Eliza…
The cost of Unsplash
Luke Chesser shares what it cost to run Unsplash in February (minus humans): Hopefully getting a behind-the-scenes look at what it costs to run a site like Unsplash will help you with…
Is GoPro doomed?
Those that follow along here on my blog know that I love my GoPro. And I “only” have the HERO 3. See this, this, this, this, and this for examples of me playing…
A few iCloud Photo Library observations
Somewhat related: Photo stats and observations. I began the switch to iCloud Photo Library a few days ago and so far it has been a mixed experience. Since weaving a good narrative…
Photo stats and observations
As I’ve been moving my photos from Picturelife into Photos for OS X over the passed two weeks I’ve run across some interesting observations so I thought I’d jot them down. . Most of her photos are fairly drool worthy but the above tips the…
How to: Delete photos from within Smart Albums in iPhoto
I use Smart Albums in iPhoto for a number of reasons, which I plan on covering in an upcoming post, but every once and a while I find a few photos that…