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I completed my first race today. 4 kilometers in 26 minutes! Thanks to my wife, I have some images from the race. Check out some more photos (of me) from the race here. The Pumpkin Run is a 4K race through a remote and scenic trail near Horace Williams Airport in Chapel Hill. The...
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Adobe has released the beta version of Lightroom 3 for free (until April). If you have been thinking about trying it out, this is a great way to test LR without shelling out big bucks. I am downloading it now, so have not yet tested it, but it is supposed to include flickr integration...
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After being busy for a few months, I am getting back to blogging. I have a bunch of articles in draft form that I will be polishing and posting now. I will start shortly with a post about an article in the local paper about me and my photography. I am glad to be...
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NYTimes.com has a great new blog, the Lens Blog, which deals with “Photojournalism – Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives”. It has recently done a great series on the famous Tianeman Square reporting. Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting —...
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I ran across a great article, Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen via Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com, detailing the stories behind the famous shot from Tiananmen Square. The article marks the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown and the publication of those images. Twenty years ago, on June 5, 1989, following weeks of massive...
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As I noted when I Bought My First iPhone App, there is no built-in way to totate images on the iPhone. Apple probably never thought of it because rotating images on the iPhone makes them quite small. It is both better and simpler just to swivel the iPhone itself depending on whether the image...
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A while back I posted a tip about adding IDs to the iPhone wallpaper. This tip involved adding your contact info manually using an image editing software on your desktop. Too tricky for most, including me. Fortunately, it turns out that ther is an easier way to do this. There are to similar apps,...
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Ken Rockwell has a great tip on How to add your ID to your iPhone and iPod Touch. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have your contact information pop up every time your iPhone or iPod touch turns on, so that if you lost it, you would get it back? The tip is...
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Spotted on A Photo Editor, The American Craftsmen Project. This personal project shot by Tadd Myers seems pitch perfect for the economy right now. Photographs of people who make things one at a time by hand (visit here). There are some wonderful images here. A Photo Editor is right about how apropos this collection...
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The Krugman Song on Youtube.
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tim o’brien photos has received a make-over this weekend. {for the wordpress savvy, the theme has changed from my modified dojo theme to magazine basic.} i hve dropped the old look as it displayed improperly in older versions of internet explorer. supposedly, this new look is both standards-compliant (aka accessible to screen readers) and...
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It is photos like these that I would take if I could. From Scenes from the recession – The Big Picture – Boston.com: The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle. It can be difficult to capture financial pressures in photographs,...
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tim o’brien photos now has a face on Facebook. Stop by and you can follow me there! You can also follow the blog via Twitter, e-mail, or RSS. You can even use Feed My Inbox to get the RSS feed by email. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me...
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I crossed an iPhone milestone today and paid for my first iPhone app today. Up until now, I have used only free apps in addition to the default ones. But I encountered an issue that could be solved easily only by a $1.99 app. So I bought it. And I did it through iTunes...
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I keep all my contact and calendar information on Google. Google is convenient, ubiquitous and easy to use. when I brought my new iPod Touch home, I was excited to set up my e-mail, contacts and calendar on the device. Setting up my e-mail went smoothly enough. The difficulty begin when I tried to...
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