Yahoo Down the Path Already Trod
Is Yahoo! following in Google’s Gmail footsteps with Yahoo! 360?
Is Yahoo! following in Google’s Gmail footsteps with Yahoo! 360?
Entrepreneur (Via Business Opportunities Weblog): “How can you tell if a lack of human interaction is putting a crimp in your style? Some typical indications of being overly isolated are irritability, loss of energy and sadness unrelated to an identifiable cause.”
Even sitting in a room with other people it can sometimes seem quite isolated especially if the room is darkened to facilitate better color perception. I remember reading of experiments in the 1960’s where people voluntarily climbed into immersion tanks and floated in complete darkness for hours at a time with no physical contact.
One of the things I hated the most about using an iPodder client was that I never knew for sure if a podcast downloaded. Dave Winer says that’s how it’s supposed to be done, in the middle of the night so it’s waiting for you the next morninng. I, on the other hand, like to know what’s being put on my computer and where it is. That’s why I like using NetNewsWire to download podcasts.
With NetNewsWire I’m able to pick and choose which podcasts for which days I want to download. I’m able to choose if I want them directly downloaded to iTunes or placed in a folder on my desktop for easy access and I’m never left wondering if something downloaded, it’s right there in front of me.
Yet another reason why NetNewsWire rocks. Kudos again to Brent.
I sent out an Easter Greeting last night via Gmail and what I got back was a multicolored rainbow of responses. Since Gmail uses threading to link responses to the email and also to senders on your contact list, each respondents name is a different color. Very Google-esque if you’re looking at 30 responses.
Happy Easter from all of us here at The Daily Thing. We hope you have a great one with your friends and family.
Here’s something interesting from the music biz, not only will you be able to get additional content in the form of ringtones when you purchase and artists cd, but now you’ll be able to choose which section of the song to use as your ringtone.
Reuters: “The new CD single ‘Baby’ from rapper Fabolous allows UK consumers to choose which part of the song they want to use as a mobile phone ringtone, a feature that Warner Music said on Thursday was a first for the industry.Until now, the 30-second ringtone clips packaged with singles have been pre-determined by record companies.
“It’s the next step for music lovers,” said Crispin Futrille, whose company Bounce supplied Warner with the technology. “Ultimately the idea is to get this included on all CDs.”
I really hadn’t bought a cd from a store in so long I didn’t realize they were putting ringtones on the cd’s. Are they doing this in the US too? I’m not sure if this would justify paying $25 for a cd (the price I last paid for a cd with additional content on it).
AP: “When Diane Viza got into an argument with her son over whether she was sober, she drove to the local police station asked to take a sobriety test. That turned out to be a bad idea.
The 45-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after she showed up at the police station in the Orleans County village of Albion and asked officers to administer a breath test.”
I, like many people, send email through my hosted domain’s webserver. Just recently though I’ve been unable to send email and have been getting send errors. Turn out the culprit isn’t the setting on my computer or my connection itself, but the company I chose to provide my internet service, SBC.
SBC Yahoo! Help: “SBC Internet Services (SBCIS) is taking positive steps to help combat junk email and spam. In addition to network upgrades, free spam filtering and anti-virus software, SBCIS is implementing outbound email SMTP port controls to ensure that its network is as reliable as possible for our Members.As announced in the September 2004 Member newsletters, SBCIS began filtering direct outgoing email connections using Port 25 (SMTP) to non-SBCIS/Yahoo mail servers from Members using dynamic DSL and Dialup connections. Port 25 filters are widely used by many ISPs to combat junk email and spam from mis-configured and virus-infected computers.”
This sucks because it’s not only affecting my email here at dailything.com but all my other domains (5 total) and even my .Mac account.
Oye vey! What port will they be blocking next? Can I expect to get locked out of my weblog?
The San Jose Mercury News finally has RSS feeds. Awesome!
I found this amusing on Flickr. Possibly as I was a participant in the hijinks.
Flickr: Technique: Standard Photo Color Correction
SilentElkOfYesterday says:
I’m wondering what people do as standard procedures when processing their photos into a final version.”
th3ph17 says:
i adjust/correct photos for a magazine publishing company, so this is mostly RGB adjustments for a custom CMYK profile.
like lifeinpixels…this is mass processing, so this all goes pretty fast. Most simple images would be around 15 seconds.
first thing i do is crop and use the perspective correction aspects of the crop tool to correct for lens distortion, if needed.
1. Shadows/Highlights [if needed] for subtle adjustments of dark areas. Careful not to make it glowing-round-the-edges crap.
2. Fix things using the healing tool and the clone tool on a new layer, adjust opacity of that layer for some things–like wrinkles, etc…to bring them back slightly. Helps it not look plastic.
3. Curves adjustment layer, to brighten up a bit, set the gray point.
4. CMYK gamut warning view to see which colors are completely f*cked.
5. If it doesn’t look to bad, i convert to CMYK, hit my size/resolution/save as macros.
6. If it is really bad and the color is important–bigger images needed or its a beautiful red flower in a sea of green–i’ll continue to use hue/saturation, levels, and curves adjustment layers–with the CMYK gamut warning on–and try to make the colors survivable. Then step 5.
7. Stretch, get more coffee.
8. I also use the layer mask functions for the adjustment layers, so i’ll have one for the sky and one for a building and one for the foreground, depending on what is needed.
I tend to never use auto–even though i’ve adjusted it so that my black and white clipping points are at .01% or so, and do a fairly good job.
Brightness/Contrast is avoided at all costs…i always recommended to students that they learn to use Levels for brightness/contrast adjustments, so that you can see the histogram and you have more control.
I also tend to use series of layers…even several curves layers for instance, rather than trying to get it all perfect with one. I like warmer shots…some correct a bit more towards cool…a lot of it is very subjective unelss you have specific guidlines.
**i don’t correct flickr images, i just load them up. call it lazy, call it art.**
Campin’ Guy says:
How many times do you do Step 7, Phil?
th3ph17 says:
well, admittedly, step seven is the slow part of my work procedure.