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Posts tagged Apple

The problem with iPhone apps

I have an on-again/off-again love/hate relationship with my iPhone. As the former chief of all-things-design at the world’s largest iPod & iPhone accessory company I really wanted to love the iPhone. However, I migrated from a BlackBerry Curve to an iPhone and have never really been at peace with the iPhone. There are a number [...]

Pentax K10D Lightroom custom develop settings

After shooting digital for 10 years I finally started shooting RAW exclusively in September 2008. What took me so long? Probably the same thing that keeps most amateur photographers from shooting RAW: the added time and complexity of post-processing RAW images. That all changed when I discovered Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s customizable default development settings. By [...]

De-booger your laptop

Once a week I make it a habit to give my MacBook Pro a good cleaning. While I may be a bit more OCD about this than most folks I still think it’s a good idea. I’m always amazed when I see laptops that look like they have spent their life on the floor of [...]

Back in Black(Berry)

Most of you who know me know that I have been using an Apple iPhone. As the Marketing and Design Director for the World’s largest iPod & iPhone accessory brand, it was pretty much a prerequisite that I trade in my beloved BlackBerry Curve for an iPhone. So, on June 29, 2007 I waited for [...]

Concept to reality

I picked up my first iPhone on the day they were launched (June 29, 2007). One of the first things I tried to do was take some close-up photos of a project I was working on. To my dismay, the iPhone had to be 18-24″ away from the subject to achieve focus. For most of [...]