September 2007 Entries
Notches is gearing up for launch. Today we are announcing the official Notches Blog.
Note, this is different from our Annoucements feed, which is for only necessary updates. We hope to offer some interesting content & analysis on the Notches blog; expect to see posts from Tim, Rajiv and myself on topics ranging from web 2.0 to the trials and tribulations of being a New York tech startup.
Blog home & the RSS feed.
We've been watching Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares on BBC-America for a couple of years now. It is one of my favorite TV shows. Gordon Ramsey spends a week in an ailing restaurant and attempts to turn them around from empty dining rooms, terrible (usually overly complex) food, colossal financial disasters (most people on the show are between $250k-$500k in debt) to successful establishments. I had extreme mixed feelings when I found out that it was coming to FOX. I watched the pilot episode last night and my fears were justified, but I'm still hopeful the show will...
Have you noticed your digital pictures sometimes have an unwanted red or cyan outline?
DP review has a nice detailed description of the problem here: Chromatic Aberration by Vincent Bockaert. It has to do with the way digital sensors work and the angles of light involved.
Since I'm a semi-semi-professional digital retoucher, I can tell you how to fix it.
In Photoshop, you could select the area in question, go to Hue/Saturation, select "reds" and reduce the saturation. But in an image like this one* you can't just select a big chunk because the flesh tones have red in them,...
Since, oh, about 1995 or so I've attempted to use MS Money and/or Quicken exactly once a year. Whenever a new version would come out, I'd sign up for the 30 day trial and give it a go. I'd go back six months and catalog everything I spent and earned, glanced at some pretty charts and graphs, and that was about it until the next year. I'm hopeful that it will stick with this new approach. I've started using Wesabe, which is a web 2.0 revision of Quicken/Money. The major problem with Quicken/Money is that the various banks of the...