Ok, so the Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) happens every year, and this will be the second time I will be going. I went last year, and my wife always laughs when she recalls how I got up at 6:30 am on the first day of the conference just to be there at 7-am to line up for the keynote. I have to admit, I was a bit excited, this was my first time in the city of San Francisco (not counting a previous Silicon Valley visit where I only saw SFO airport), first time at WWDC, and also the first time I got to see Steve Jobs in the flesh (My rating? underwhelming. Might as well have watched the keynote streamed in Quicktime).
When BaseCamp first came out, I wondered when someone will make a BaseCamp clone. Well, it’s here. Check out the features in the screencast. It’s open sourced, and of alpha quality – but shows a lot of promise.
I have to agree with CameraLab’s final verdict about the Pentax K10D (quoted below). It definitely is a more hands-on DSLR than the others. But then isn’t that the point of a SLR? It’s not a point-and-shoot.
My system is a stock 4-year old 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 Dell Dimension 8250 (XP Home), upgraded with:
Finally! With Apple’s OS X 10.4.9 update, Pentax K10D users can view K10D .PEFs natively in OS X Preview, and also in Aperture, and PEF converted DNGs will also be displayed properly now (Aperture only shows DNGs properly if the OS itself has a RAW converter for your RAW format).
Finally, Adobe Camera Raw supports the Pentax K10D PEF format in Adobe Camera Raw 3.7. No more tedious conversions to DNGs. Pentax’s DNG converter blows up the RAW file by 60%, Adobe DNG Converter can further losslessly compress this to a smaller size, almost the same size as the original PEF (10 MB).
Web Services Contract-First (WSCF) is an add-in for Visual Studio that has been recently updated to support Visual Studio 2005, and it is free.
