Category Archives: Hardware & Software

Importing video from Sony HDD Handycam to Mac OS X 10.5.X

It’s 2008, and this is what I have to do to get video files off of my Sony DCR-SR82 HDD Handycam, and into an iMovie-digestible format: Download video from the camcorder using the Sony-provided HDD Handycam Utility (crap) within a … Continue reading

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Short list of MacBook Pro/Leopard issues

Without going into a terrific amount of detail, I thought I’d document some issues that I’m experiencing with my MacBook Pro (a couple of months old, running OS X 10.5.2). It should be noted that all of these issues have … Continue reading

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The move to Aperture (or, The move away from everything else)

My plan was to write an in-depth review of Aperture, and provide some insight into my decision to choose Aperture over Adobe Lightroom. About half way into the article, I realized that I wasn’t doing much more than regurgitating all … Continue reading

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Google releases Chart API

Google just released a nifty Chart API, as evidenced by this pie chart depicting the relative amount of Suck produced by Google developers.

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