October 2007 Archives

I sometimes really hate the initiative process. So many things to do, yet voting is also important and this is a big one given the big regional transportation bill (we have to get out of gridlock). It is amazingly hard to find endorsements or any definitives. I used to have the Seattle Weekly but since it got folded into mega-alternative paper, it is hard to find endorsements. So I'm back to the Seattle Times for a least a first cut. The Seattle Times has the worst search engine searching in the world, so after 20 minutes, you can finally find its Seattle Times endorsements in the Opinions section not the politics section. The Post Intelligencer
makes it easy to find their endorsements.

With the Canadian dollar actually above the US dollar, going to Whistler has gone from being really cheap to going to London. The fate of those with lots of American dollars I fear. One way to save is the EDGE card which gives you some discount. The 1 day ski rate is a whopping $70 at Whistler, $57 online. If you guy 5 days online, then it drops to $56 per day on the early bird rate. That is buy by November 19th.

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Well, I've had three really powerful bike lights over the last couple of years. First the Light & Motion Cabeza which was lightweight but too dim really. Then after getting hit by a car, I went whole hog and got two HID (high intensity discharge) systems one for the handle bars and the other for the helmet. They are 85 watts and literally brighter than the sun (technically 650 lumens). But, they use really heavy NiMH batteries and the whole kit weights 2 pounds per system. And now all the batteries either failed to hold charge or in another case, the case cracked. Also I've been using Xenon strobe flashers for backup. Again, these are getting old and have either disintegrated or cracked. Plus all of these only last about two hours or so. So what's the solution now? LEDs.

Mountain Bike Reviews has probably the best list of bike light reviews. As a calibration, the Light & Motion ARC has 125 rteviews and is top rated. They like the Stella but it is still new.

With high intensity LEDs, you get very bright (180 lumens) and long run times (5-6 hours) and very light weight (1/2 a pound). For instance Light & Motion make the Stella 180-N. Competitive Cyclist has a glowing review of it and it is just $199 from Beyond Bikes or you can go to the REI.

Also, for my existing perfectly good HID system, you can get a replacement NiMH battery for $180 at the same place. Quite a choice. Get a whole lighting system for the same price as the battery. Plus the battery weighs more than a whole bike assembly. OTOH, there is nothing quite like a system that pumps out 650 lumens (or more than 2.5x the LED).

For rear flashers and side flashers, Xenon was great but ate batteries for breakfast even with rechargeables. Now you can get the Blackburn Mars 3.0 with seven LEDs and a 150 hour run time for $12 and MTBR.com shows it is popular with 27 reviews and highly rated 4.45 out of 5.

As an amazing aside, someone has actually reviewed Flashlights at Flashlightreviews.com. It is now defunct, but still useful. Amazing what people will do.

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Engadget points out that Ars Technica has a great review of Leopard. I'm inclined to agree. Great analysis of the user interface and the move to gratuitous but highly demoable features like transparency in Aero and I hadn't realized that Apple's user interface guidelines were so out of date, there is actually a wiki which adds to it.

His discussion of kernel improvements makes me wish I still had a simple job just working on the guts of computers. BAsically his main point is that operating system benchmarks aren't the point, but having great applications performance is what matters, so Leopard kernel focuses quite a bit on scheduling so applications are responsive. The main amazing thing is the source for the kernel is available for developers to look at and it looks like and is Unix. How cool is that. They can add open source features as needed like dtrace which is a really powerful debugging tool for instance. In many ways, by the move to Unix, they are on a very large development platform with many other folks.

Finally at folklore.org there's a wonderful story about how round rectangles are everywhere because of Steve Jobs and of all things, the Lisa. [Plus this great factoid that the sum of any set of odd numbers is a perfect square, how cool is that!).

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Finally got around to going through clippings, here are some from Macworld:

• Imagewell is a nice photo resizer. A little faster than the 30 seconds it takes to boot up Photoshop CS2 :-)

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It is rebate time in the camera world, so if you want to get something now is a great time:

• Canon has rebates and most shops like Canoga and B&H are including instant rebates. These work better than mailing something into Canon and praying. Actually I've had great luck with Canon rebates and terrible luck with Nikon, but YMMV (your mileage may vary :-)
• Gitzo. These are some of the best tripods I've ever used. I have two now. Through Halloween, Canoga has a 10% off on their Tripods, and they seem to have a continuing set of promotions, so check their promotion page
• Kgear. This is another short promotion from November 1-7, but for orders of $200 or less a 10% discount, 200-400 a 15% and more than 20% $400 plus free shipping. These are the best bags in the world IMHO. Like the Y315, BG-4302 stuff sack that is waterproof, E280 long lense pouch, Y305 compression strap to stabilize big loads like the long lense case, N950 rain cover for the entire belt,

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For some reason my home directory just went completely invisible. You can't see it in /Users. The Mac OS X has no way to change this from the user interface, so you have to use a third party utility to turn it on. The cheapest and easiest solutions are:

• X Code. Use the command line interface of Apple's development tools to turn it on.
• "Parallels". This is the Windows on Mac software. Turns out that if you need this anyway, you can just use the Windows explorer to turn on invisible things. Called Hidden in Windows. So use Windows explorer and choose Tools/Options show Hidden files and then right click on the files and unclick Hidden.
• "Invisible". This is a utility that is shareware that lets you see what is invisible. You then use FileBuddy to turn the bit on and off. It does cost money thought.

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Calvin says they are studying the first Americans that crossed the land bridge in about 11,000 BC according to Sangres.com. They used a spear and a sprear throwing stick called atlatl. The bow and arrow didn't show up until 1,200 years ago.

They hunted probably "mammoths" (and not mastodons which are older relatives apparently but lived contemporaneously during the last ice age).

There is of course some controversy as to whether they were the first people. Reuters reports that some think the first folks here were here 15-25,000 years ago.

Modmyiphone has figured out how to downgrade to 1.0.2 and then upgrade it. There are four steps, but the documentation is at least clear:

1. Downgrade 1.0.2 Baseband by loading a package of software called Virginize. You then use sftp to copy to your phone over wifi with a freeware utility called Cyberduck
2. Upgrade 1.0.2 to 1.1.1 by using the latest 1.25 release of iNdependence to open up the software and then use iTunes to upgrade to 1.1.1
3. Activate and jailbreak 1.1.1 by using Independence to Activate it (so you can use your phone to make calls) and Jailbreak (so you can install applications and junk on your phone freely). Finally you install ssh, sftp and scp so you can control the phone over Wifi
4. Unlock 1.1.1 so you can use a non-AT&T Sim with your phone by loading anySIM on your phone with Independence and then run anySIM

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Arrgh. Why is color management so complicated. Finally figured it out for the Canon i9900, now it has changed for the later Canon Pro9000. It is complicated and there is no documentation. Fortunately, the bright souls at Photography-on-the.net have figure it out. The key thing is that there is actually a guide that they don't post on make findable on the Canon site but Renard has hosted it. Great reading for the inscrutable ICC profiles and such.

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Got a great tip from the comment on low light lense. So if you have Canon here are some good choices:

Less than Full Frame prosumer

• EF-S 17-55mm F2.8 IS USM. It isn't an "L" lense only because it works only with non-full-frame cameras. So Canon 40D and below. However, it is sharper at all focal ranges than the EF 24-70mm F2.8/L IS USM. The main drawback is that it is only for smaller frame cameras.
• Tamron 17-50mm F/2.8 XR Di II. It is OK fast and optical quality at least in this smaple was excellent. Again, the biggest issue is that it doesn't have a stabilizer.
• Sigma 18-50mm F/2.8 EX DC. These Canon lenses cost at mint at close to $1000. The Sigma is way cheaper, but there is no such thing as a free lunch. It is not as quiet and doesn't focus as fast especially in low light (when you need the focus presumably). Also optical quality is decent. The sample they reviewed wasn't symmetric in sharpness. Flare is also a problem. And for me a big issue is that it doesn't have image stabilization. Get this as an upgrade from the slower and very cheap kit lense the EF-S 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6, but if you can afford the Canon, go for it.

This leaves a little bit a hole in that the next F2.8 lense is the 70-200 so there is a hole in ranges, between 55 and 70.

Full Frame

If you have a full frame camera or are thin\king about getting one, then the choice are:

EF-S 24-70mm F2.8 IS USM. As noted above, this works full frame and is very fast and quiet. Pretty much the choice if you have a full frame (Canon 5D and above) camera. I have a 28-105 and it is nice to have the zoom, but it really isn't 24-70mm f/2.8L and the 70-200 F2.8/L is really the perfect choice for low light

As a final aside, I had been thinking about the 85mm F/1.2, but word is that for sports, it just focuses too slowly to really be useful, so will stick to pushing the ISOs on these F2.8 lenses for this season.

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Well at least for this release, the modmyiphone.com reports that you can now unlock it. The only real hangup is that you can't unlock 1.0.2 first as the guide says you need to start with a virgin 1.0.2 build without any new firmward in 1.0.2.

So the steps are to take a vanilla iPhone with 1.1.1 software and 1.1.1 Baseband firmware. Then you downgrade to 1.0.2 software and baseband firmware. Then you run Insaller and then take the 1.1.1 upgrade but don't install it then go to a conceitedsoftware.com site which uses an exploit in Safari to jailbreak your phone.

So first if you have a jail broken phone, you have to restore both the 1.0.2 firmware and software and then follow directions. What a lot of work, but at least you get to 1.1.1's new features like the wireless iTunes store (which I'd never use anyway), but many enhancements now require 1.1.1

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Wow, Apple announced really impressive July-September 2007 results. They did $6.2B vs. $4.8B for the same quarter a year ago. To me the most amazing thing are Macs sales. They are up 34% sequentially (2.2M vs. 1.8M a quarter ago) and most interesting, their direct through retail store sales rose from 57% up from 53% for the same quarter last year. Controlling their retail channel really does work.

I think they are right by the way that Leopard (OS X 10.5) is a really big step. With Microsoft a year old with Vista and probably five years away from another release, Apple can really go to town on features. Personally, I think the momentum is quite amazing particularly the fact that 50% of the Macs sold at retail have never owned a Mac before.

And of course the big news is 1.4M iPhones shippped. I'm sure they thought they were going to do much better. Still think they can do 10M next year (that's what I would say too). iPod sales rose 17% from a year ago, so decent momentum there. But, the high price points of the Mac means that a small increase in these sales is very significant.

Other interesting factoid is that 250K the 1.4M were sold to unlockers so it shows the steep mountain Apple has to climb and how high the desire is for an easy to use phone that is also a platform. I hope Apple listens and doesn't lock it all totally down.

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Since I had to swap back my 24-105 F/4L for repair, it gave me some time to reflect on the right lenses. Also Canon is having its usual "Fall Rebate";http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=PromotionsAct program that includes $125 off of their 70-200 F/2.8L and 85 F/1.2.

Lately I've been taking lots more photos in low light (e.g., rainy days) and also in indoor, so the thought of what lenses to get really strikes home. While I like the 24-105 F/4L as a good medium range all around lense, the fact is that it is kind of slow with older cameras (with the newer D40 able to take shots at ISO 800, its less of an issue), still I do wish I had F/2.8 lenses (a full stop faster). So what are the choices?

Right now with the Sigma 18-200, there is a nice daylight lense at a relatively slow F3.5-6.3, but what if you need faster?

• "Canon EF 70-200mm F/2.8L IS USM://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-70-200mm-f-2.8-L-IS-USM-Lens-Review.aspx is by most folks notes an incredibly high quality lense. It is fast but it is big. So you'd use the 18-200 in bright daylight and for travel, but if you are carrying everything, this $1600 beauty (Pricegrabber has it at $1545 including shipping less the $125 rebate). Its faster than the 100-400 F/4.5-5.4 and the 24-10 F/4L IS, but is huge.
• Canon EF 85mm F/1.2L II USM. I have the 50mm F/1.4 and it is truly amazing what an additional stop buys you. Unfortunately, the 50mm is a little too short for say a dance concert or indoor basketball, so this is a really expensive (Pricegrabber ahs it all $1600) but it is so fast it might work. Most folks would probably use the 70-200mm and push to ISO 1600 but the 1.2L is a superb indoor lense.

So if you have infinite cash then the killer combination is:
* Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III Ok its $8000 but it has 21 megapixels, is full frame and works up to ISO 3200. What an amazing low light camera
* "Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS USM':http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-400mm-f-2.8-L-IS-USM-Lens-Review.aspx. If you happen to have $6500 lying around, this is a 13 pound monster, but is indeed incredibly for any kind of outdoor sport photography. Weep to use it or better yet rent it when you need it for a few hundred bucks.

Finally a side note, the-digital-picture.com has a great review of the B+W Circular Polarizer MRC are really the worlds finest if the most expensive. It is fantastic for making the sky really blue and for reducing water relections.

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After waiting all summer for a good hard disk HD camcorder, you either had the convenience of hard disk, but bad AVCHD quality or really great HD, but you had to use tape with the Canon HV20. Used in 1080/24p mode, the quality is very much like film.

Well, with the introduction of the Canon HG10, Camcorderinfo says that we can forget the tradeoff. It comes with a 40GB hard disk (although the 24p mode doesn't work well, the default 1080/60i mode works great). Its about $1100 street price, so not bad for the ultimate in quality.

The only thing you need now is an AVCHD compatible video editing package. The Mac's latest iMovie does this, so you are in luck there (although I personally really dislike the interface). Sony Vegas Movie Studio only (of course) works with Sony's AVCHD video cameras of version 7.0e or later.

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Grace's friends have been contributing to a fund to help others. A good discussion about what to do with it. Here were some suggestions:

• Northwest Harvest. Even a country as rich as the US has folks who don't have enough food. It's also easy to donate. Either drop it off at Cherry Street which is 711 between 7th and 8th Avenues or most UPS stores like 227 Bellevue Way NE at 2nd and Bellevue Way.
• The Treehouse this is a shelter for homeless kids. They have a store there that folks can contribute to and that you can buy things for "scrip" if you are disadvantaged. Girls seem to love the concept and contributing an afternoon there.
• Kiva. This organization lets you contribute small sums for microfinance. You can actually see where your $10 is going to and the idea is that it is really a loan so you'll get dollars back.

Ludwig says that I should run not walk to get Bioshock. It certainly sounds fun. In the FEAR genre. Personally, I kind of like the pseudo realism of Call of Duty. It isn't so accurate as to be hard, but a good combination. I would only say that even Call of Duty 4, doesn't quite capture the same sense as the original Call of Duty. Somehow the D-Day invasion feels so much more real even though the game is now older, the music and just having seen Saving Private Ryan made me think I was really there.

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I'm so torn as to whether or not getting the Sigma 18-200 OS makes sense. Photozine.de reports it is soft at 35mm, but pretty good at 18, 50 and 200mm. The Pophoto.com review shows that it has better image quality at 200mm than the much acclaimed Nikon 18-200mm. Rick at Fredmiranda.com reports the same thing, it is amazing at the ends of its range, but in the 35mm range, it is soft. This is apparently a design issue with the lense.

Still at $500 street it is pretty amazing.

Time once more for figuring out where to get a nice pumpkin. Around Seattle, Remlinger Farms is perhaps the biggest and most famous. It opens at 10AM on weekends. Pumpkingpatchesandmore.org actually has a self listing of you pick sites in the the state of Washington.

Another good one is South 47 Farm which is at NE 124th and Woodinville-Redmond Road also 10-6PM isf you don't want to go all the way out to Duvall.

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I haven't been playing many computer games. Too much other stuff to do and too little time. Can't help but notice Call of Duty 4

I loved the original Call of Duty (although CoD2 was only OK) and this one updates things to modern times. There is now a demo and Gamespot
thinks it is awesome.

The latest version of DxO (my favorite image editing tool), won't display properly on the latest Mac OS X 10.4, it used to work with 4.5, you just have to turn off the GPU Acceleration option. On the Mac, this is in DxO/Preferences

DXO - Simply better images

Since version 4.5, the acceleration function of video cards (Graphical Processor Unit) is used by quick demosaicing algorithms.

This function is optional, it can be activated by checking the "GPU Acceleration" option in the "Edit->Preferences->General" menu.

This function allows faster rendering time.

Please note that not all video cards are able to support this feature. Some video cards do not offer a sufficient level of functionalities for the quick demosaicing algorithms.

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OK, I have a UV filter to protect all the lenses, but there is one filter called a circular polarizer which most folks will tell you should have. It has a couple of purposes. When taking pictures of fish in water, you can actually see the fish



And when taking landscapes, it makes the sky more blue and there is less haze



These babies can cost a fortune. For instance the top of the line B+W #66025844 Kaeseman filter (that is one that is sealed so it will last longer) and multi-resistant coated (e.g., non scratcheable) and slim (means it won't vignette, that is show up in wide angle shots) costs $170 at B&H

Photo.net posts show that it is reasonable given the quality and there is a long discussion of alternatives and the many types of B+W filters.

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Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Up-to-Date

Customers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh computer on or after October 1, 2007 that does have not Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard included can upgrade to Leopard.

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I've already mentioned that the Nikon D40X and their 18-200 lense are a wonderful travel kit, but what about the Canon user?

For the Canon photographer, there is no equivalent until now. The new Sigma AF 18-200 f/3.5-6.3 DC OS seems to have lots of sample to sample variation, but at least PopPhoto.com found that at 200mm, it is even better than the Nikon.

Photozone.de confirmed that review showing visible barrel distortion and a problem with resolution in the 35mm range. That reviews main advice was to stay close to F/9 in all zoom and beware the bokeh is only so, so. You have to fix distortion manually with Photoshop CS3 or hopefullyDxO will have a module for the Sigma soon that does that automatically). The main advice is that you need to stay fast and above F/9.

The main issues are the Sigma lense quality and also it is slower at the top end at F6.3 vs. F5.6 for the Nikon. On the other hand, Popular Photography says image quality at 200mm is better on the Sigma, so go figure. The issue is how fast the Sigma autofocuses, many reviews mention that it doesn't have a fast HSM motor

DSKblog.com says lightrules that compared witht he Canon 17-85 IS USM, it is ok with center sharpness, but the 17-85 wins in corner sharpness. He evens like the build quality better that the 17-85 which isn't after a professional quality "L" lense like the 24-105. Again, he points out that autofocusing isn't that fast with the Sigma.

ephotozine also did a quick review which like other reviews show that it does have some distortion at the wide end. And that the lense is best in bright light, so tun it at F/8 at the short end and F/11 at the longer focal lenses.

So if you are a Canon guy, it becomes:

* Canon Digital Rebel XTi. Also 10 megapixels
* Sigma 18-200 lense. Pricegrabber has it for as little as $464 vs. a list of $550.

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In Windows, there are a zillion ways things can start. The registry can do it, there is a special group in Start Programs that does it. You have to always look carefully to make sure not to be too slow. The Mac OS X isn't any different. Here are the places you need to look according to Apple

* /Library/StartupItems is a folder that you can stuff applications in. OS X does do a security check and for you Unix bit heads, what happens is in that every application is actually a directory in OS X, so you can right click and look at what is called package contents (the convention is that applications are really have a .app extension). Also, the correct default permissions for a system level application are to be owned by root in the group called wheel
* In the System Preferences, Account section, there is something called Login Items. These are applications that run when a user logs in. For instance, Microsoft Office stuffs a bunch of daemons in there.

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People have been talking about customization a la Cafepress for mugs and t-shirts, but what about ordinary things like M&Ms:

Now My M&Ms let's you write messages on the back of the tiny M&Ms themselves. How cool. Expensive at $12 a 7 oz bag, but fun!

My Jones let's you do the same with Jones Soda, although I keep getting javascript errors when I tried it. Pretty cool though.

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Until I read this piece, I thought of Leopard (OS X 10.5) mainly as eye candy, now I see that this Time Machine is a truly elegant way never to lose a file. Basically, you stick an extra hard disk into a USB drive and you get a back up of every file in your computer every hour and it is easy to scroll and find things. Amazing work, Apple!

Appleinsider gives a great technical overview for geeks who know about hard links in Unix and how they cleverly use this to allow any incremental backup to look like the whole file system. It really relies on uses fast disk instead of slow tape for storage.

That plus a great user interface and wow!

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The main bad news is that it relies on an easily closed exploit in Safari, so the next update will close it. At least though there is hope to get to the 1.1.1 feature set. I must say that it looks like Apple is going to win this arms race to close their system. Too bad... I thought this chronology was fascinating though...

iPhone and iPod touch v1.1.1 full jailbreak tested, confirmed! - Engadget

# Apple releases iPhone, which was obviously cracked six ways from Sunday.
# Through firmwares 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 Apple does not block these hacks in any way.
# Firmware v1.1.1 is released for iPhone and iPod touch, which completely locks out file system access (and thus 3rd party software).
# Awkward silence from Apple fans and the dev community as everyone ponders how to crack the new file system protections.
# Hackers dinopio, edgan discover the symlink hack, which takes v1.0.2 iPhones up to v1.1.1 with read / write file system access. In other words, the hack only works on v1.0.2 iPhones (not the iPod touch) when being upgraded to v1.1.1, and still doesn't grant the ability to execute loaded programs.
# The next version of dinopio & co.'s symlink hack (which hasn't yet been released to the public) grants the coveted execute privilege (so you can run those 3rd party apps), and enables another hack (by pumpkin) to make the new SpringBoard (the application launcher) recognize the freshly recompiled iPhone apps.
# Hacker Niacin (aka toc2rta) and Dre claim they've managed to combine the symlink hack with a TIFF vulnerability found in the v1.1.1 firmware's mobile Safari, which grants access to the file system. This is the hack we're testing here.
Note: Due to the nature of this hack, it's to be considered ephemeral. Apple needs only to patch the TIFF vulnerability and file system access on v1.1.1 is out, with the touch and iPhone back to their previously not-too-hackable state.

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Mac Rumors: Mac OS X Leopard on October 26th?

Appleinsider believes that Apple is preparing for announcements late in October, specifically between the 22nd and 27th of the month.

They specifically point to October 26th as the likely ship date for Mac OS X Leopard, but don't rule out the possibility of additional announcements near that date.

ThinkSecret also believes that Leopard will launch on or around October 26th.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is available for pre-order at Amazon

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This is probably the worst named promotion I've seen in a long time. In short, if you put money into this card, then you can get two songs off of iTunes. Either two $1.29 DRM free MP3s or $0.99 locked songs. Quite a good deal if you put $5 into the card and get back $2.50 worth of mucic.

Starbucks is also giving away free tracks when you wander in There is a magic download code that I'm sure folks are categorizing already. There is no purchase required

Coffee loves music Register this card (pictured above) to enjoy two free song downloads along with the convenience of your new Starbucks Card.</blockquote

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Downgrading your Baseband firmware fixes the bricking of your iPhone. If you upgraded to firmware 1.1.1 and this wiped our your iPhone, this will fix things. Basically, you download the 1.0.2 and reload it onto your iPhone

This actually fails because the 1.1.1 upgrade does two things, upgrades the software for the central processor and also upgrades the lowlevel firmware that runs the phone itself.

So you then have to jailbreak the phone so you can change software on it and then extract the baseband firmware and eeprom files then use a package called iEraser2. It does require you have some magic called "secpack" that is the key to it all.

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Sad to say, I think this is true, Apple will use the locked cell phone model rather than the open Mac model with its phone, it does mean that 1.1.1 was just the start. IMHO, this is actually bad for Apple, slows down the ubiquity of the device, but it will increase revenues substantially. Maybe it provides an opening for someone to do a really good and high quality open platform that is handheld. Who knows? I doubt it, but it is sad to see that innovation will slow.

More Legit 3rd Party iPhone Applications on the Way? | 9 to 5 Mac

The rationale for Apple's recent complete and total lockdown of the iPhone is that these games would be easy to port to the unlocked versions of the iPhone. Developers could easily sell the applications on their own without Apple taking its cut (which is guesstimated to be about 2/3rds of the take). These pirated applications could also be distributed via torrent sites like music and movies are currently.

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