Gordon's Notes

Every so often the software market fails. I've had this happen to me a few times. From 1997 to 2007 I used a variety of PalmOS devices f...

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

I made another stab at sharing images to Facebook Groups. It didn’t go any better than my previous efforts. First I tried using Facebook’s ...

I'm a fan of Bill Atkinson's PhotoCard.app ;  I send one weekly to my father, currently in long-term care. I love the fusion of anc...

I expect Apple to screw up anything related to long term data management, but this is extreme even by their standards. GigaOm, in language r...

I plan to expire at 85 , 10 years later than Ezekiel Emanuel  [1]. My Dad is a bit less directed; at 92 he recently moved into the longterm ...

In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...

For an old school technology geek, reared on local file stores and data cables and file formats and backups and (ugh) synchronization , the...

I've editing a summary post on my challenging   iPhoto to Aperture migration . That's made me wonder, again, where  Aperture 1.0  ca...

In the past few weeks I've been fighting a two front software war. On the one hand,  iPhoto 8 and Aperture 3 , on the other hand digitiz...

iPhoto is dying. That much is clear. iPhoto 11's launch bug problems followed the pattern of the  past decade . Unlike past releases t...

Cringely was right about  BufferBloat . I give him full credit for that one - I've not seen anyone else describing this networking prob...

It's been a gratifying week for my fellow nimbophobics. Our numbers are growing by leaps and bounds. Consider just four examples ... A...

The state of OS X photo management is mixed. It’s not so bad for customers who aren’t invested in iPhoto. Much of Adobe’s OS X software is...

In addition to his well known x-ray vision, Superman could use his super-vision to zoom into small details. Details such as this teeny-tiny ...

Size of typical JPEG image in iPhoto '09 : 3.5MB Size of identical image when exported at "Maximum" quality JPEG: 6.9MB ...

My son’s 5/6th grade camping outing was about done, so I offered to do a class picture. They lined up well, and I zipped off about 15 shots ...

Remember when Gmail storage was supposed to be "infinite"? That didn't last long, but at least the storage seemed to grow all ...

You sent your children's images to Kodak. They've been happy frolicking there, free of all charges. You didn't listen to mad Unc...

Dear Canon, I don't think you were listening last January when I told you that I don't give a flying damn about your megapixels . I ...