Archive for July, 2009

As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Championship, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. I have a few more photos from that game and thought I would share the slide show. The game was a doubleheader, so there was some decent light for the first game....
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I have had some trouble focusing recently. Not with concentrating (not more than usual anyway), but with my camera. Being visually impaired, I have to rely on my camera’s autofocus. Using manual focus requires that I can see the viewfinder. I use the viewfinder to compose (mostly), but definitely not to focus. Unfortunately, autofocus...
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Wired.com interviewed me for an article running now:  Blind Photographers Use Gadgets to Realize Artistic Vision.  The story features three of us from Blind Photographers, with interview material and photoss. From the article: “Dejong is part of an online community called Blind Photographers, where similarly handicapped shutterbugs share their work and photography tips. Because...
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As I wrote in tim in print | Summer Softball Playoffs, I had a few photos from the assignment in the paper. I have a few more photos from that game and thought I would share the slideshow.  The game was late, so there was too little light for my lens. I still salvaged...
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The WordPress development team is planning to update WP’s media handling in the next version. Via WordPress › Blog » Vote for 2.9 Media Features, “A large percentage of the requests we get from users are for more/better media features, so we’ve decided to focus 2.9 on building an infrastructure for improved media handling...
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Today, author Joe Abercrombie announced that his new book, Best Served Cold will be released in the US on the Kindle. I have found the Kindle app on my iPod Touch to be very readable on the largest font setting  and with the inverse color scheme (white text on a black background). Despite this,...
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I had a nice selection of four shots in last week’s paper,  cCLIFF’S CARVES OUT A CHAMPIONSHIP. I had had a tough time shooting the previous week’s playoff game (see Summer Softball Playoffs) as the game started late. This time around, they played a double header and I had good tlight for the first...
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I blog quite a bit about acceptability and one of my favorite topics is the Firefox browser. One of the programmers who helps make Firefox such an accessible way to use the internet is a guy named Ken Saunders. And he is now famous. BusinessWeek featured Ken in a recent article, Mozilla’s Crowdsourcing Mystique...
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A couple of weeks ago, I shot a local summer softball playoff game. A pair of images from the shoot made it to the paper in Five down, two left in Carrboro Co-Rec. Above, high fives and congratulations end the night after Cliff’s Meat Market won 13-12 over the Chapel Hill Realty Group at...
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Finding accessibility add-ons for Firefox can be tricky. There is no add-on category for accessibility. Different searches yield different add-one. I have blogged about my favorite add-ons, but not everyone reads this blog. So I have put together all the accessibility related add-ons that I use inot one ‘collection‘, a new way to group...
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