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Posted in Blog on December 16, 2007

Canon P&S + Eye-Fi + Photoshop + Actions == a ...

In an apparent attempt to prove a few friends right, I decided to show that it doesn’t matter what camera you use, you can still get amazing results with the right amount of effort and the proper tools. Last Friday I went to the city to attend Chrismukkah @ Slide. It was a great part ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 16, 2007

Impressive Customer Service

This morning I logged into my “jeremyjohnstone_wificam” account on Flickr for the first time since I created it early last week and was greeted by a pleasant surprise. I had a new FlickrMail from eye-Fi support. The email can be seen here:   As you can see in the email he find ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 15, 2007

Flickr Stats

While catching up on my blog reading this evening, I was reminded of the fact I haven’t blogged about Flickr’s new stats. Like Karen, I wouldn’t usually make a blog post on a single new feature to a website, but this is just to damn useful and kewl not too. Here’s m ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 13, 2007

Stepping lighter by eating less

As mentioned in the comment on the Flickr photo above, I apologize for subjecting everyone to a photo of my feet. I am just really proud of the fact I have lost 30 lbs in the past 12 months. Many have asked how I did it, so here’s to sharing! The first few months of the new year I w ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 12, 2007

“trouser mac”

A new geek term for the masses. Instead of calling the most kickass phone ever invented an “iPhone”, from now on it should be referred to as a “trouser mac”. Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 11, 2007

I see you eyeing my Eye-Fi…

Last Friday a coworker brought around an Eye-Fi to show it off. After seeing how simple, elegant, and fast it was unfortunately the desire to have one overpowered me and I caved to the pressure. I mean heck, they are only $99 so why not give it a shot, right? Unfortunately when everyone el ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 9, 2007

Photo Licensing and the Creative Commons

This is something which has been bothering me for a while now and finding a bunch more of my photos being used improperly online this weekend pushed me to write this. I license almost all of my photos under a CC license (attribution-noncommercial-no derivative works 2.0 specifically) and I ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 8, 2007

You are what you read?

A friend recently made the statement to me “you can learn a lot about a person by what they read”. Not quite believing in that premise, I decided today to round up the books I have read or are currently am reading over the past year. Surprisingly, I have more (at least) partial ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on December 7, 2007

Finding new hobbies

Over the past year or so I have found a new hobby (some would say obsession) which has proven to be a great stress reliever and burnout preventer, photography. Sometime around August that new interest turned a bit more into a part-time job when I agreed to become the unofficial official PR ... Continue Reading

Posted in Blog on September 8, 2007

Cayman Islands Day #1

Well it’s been a long long day so far but I can’t say I am disappointed in the least in how things are shaping up. My travels started last night at 10:30pm when I boarded a plane for Charlotte, NC. The flight wasn’t terrible, but let’s just say US Airways sure didn& ... Continue Reading