What do you get when two photographers look for a way to play around with all their camera gear? They plan a photoshoot of course! One knows someone with a great location to shoot in, the other knows some great models. So after a couple of weeks of planning & coordinating schedules, we spent a…
Apple’s latest version of their OS X operating system, named Snow Leopard is now available for preorder at Amazon.com. It’s due to be released at the end of September. It’s not on any Canadian sites yet for preorder but I’ll update this post when it is. It’s a pretty slick update to Leopard (10.5) and…
I can only imagine what an unassuming tourist visiting Vancouver would have thought when they turned the corner onto Robson street this past Sunday morning and stumbled upon the staging area for the 2009 Vancouver Pride Parade: There were more DSLR cameras in use along the parade route than I’ve ever seen in one place…
Assuming you haven’t already. A few years ago, my wife and I tried out a number of the VOIP players (in Canada) to save money on our landline. We tried Vonage and it was horrible…although I suspect it was possibly either a crappy Linksys router I had at the time or traffic shaping by my…
You probably knew this was coming. I bought an $8 camera mount and trusted a $400 camera on it while riding on a bumpy gravel trail. Turns out that the P6000 doesn’t have any stabilization while shooting video so I should have switched back to the much lighter Zi6 camera before pressing on with my…
Tomorrow is the last day for early bird registration for WordCamp Fraser Valley taking place on August 22, 2009. The registration prices go up as of August 1st. I’m going to be there speaking in the development track about using MAMP/WAMP for WordPress development. MAMP is the version of the software that runs on Apple…
My sister came to town with her kids this week and wanted to do something fun so we all headed to Playland. It happened to be the hottest day on record in Vancouver…so needless to say, it was freakin’ hot. Special thanks to Phil @ Virgin 95.3 for hooking us all up with some passes…
The camera mount for my bike arrived from Hong Kong (via eBay) today….pretty sweet setup for $8 delivered! It’s way too hot out right now for a proper ride so I did a quick spin around the block with my Kodak Zi6 attached to a mini-ballhead attached to the bike via the new mount. For…
Yesterday, while hanging out with the bloggers as part of Blogathon, we heard that a cruise ship docked nearby had a hit a baby whale while at sea. Crews had discovered it that morning while docking the ship at Canada Place in Vancouver. Tyler and I headed over to check things out and got there…
Just a quick review of this handy gadget I picked up for my iPhone. Battery power is always an issue for iPhone users that use their phones alot. I had looked at things like the Mophie Juice Pack and the InCase Power Slider but found these to be too bulky. I rarely need to double…