Sigh, I just realized that the iPhone photo viewer does not even allow you to save/display high-resolution versions of photos you want to bring with you. That's fine for "pretty pictures" that you don't need to see detail on to appreciate (e.g. like those from my fall-foliage photo stream), but that makes the iPhone worthless for showing most daily snapshots, such as those from Anthony's kindergarten sports festival. The first thing a parent wants to do is zoom up to see the kid's smile, and on the iPhone all you see is the 640 × 480 image blown up with [...]
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I'm releasing today a plugin for Adobe Lightroom 2.0 or later that allows you to perform a proximity search based on the locations geoencoded into your images. This adds to my stable of Lightroom plugins listed on my Lightroom Goodies page, and is the second that's not a vanilla "export to..." plugin (the other being my Metadata Wrangler).

I started writing this the other day after wanting to illustrate my Perfect Weather for a Snooze on a Park Bench post, but couldn't find among the 30,000 images in my library some of the Anthony-swinging pictures that I knew I had. [...]

By far the most popular goodies for Adobe Lightroom that I've published are my export plugins, for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, Picasa Web, and Facebook. I don't use any of these services to host my own photos (I generally publish what I want here on my blog and in my photostreams), but I do use a unique aspect of Zenfolio – their hierarchical gallery system – as a cheap and convenient way to back up my photos. It also allows my wife convenient access to all my photos without her having to learn Lightroom.

As I describe on My Photo and [...]

I've just moved my server to new hardware (a beefy Dell with 8 cores and as many gig of memory). There are probably still some bugs to work out, so if you notice something not working, I'd appreciate a note about it.

Big thanks to my brother Steve for his help in procuring and setting up the new machine (which I couldn't possibly have done on my own). Also, continued thanks to Peak Web Hosting, who continues to provide my hosting services and really excellent support.

I recently exchanged some messages with Apple's iTunes Customer Care mail-reading/replying artificial-intelligence system. As one might expect, artificial intelligence systems are still not quite up to the task of replacing the cognitive powers of a human, but as you'll see in the progressively-humorous transcript that follows, Apple's artificial-intelligence system has evolved enough to mimic the quintessential nature of human cluelessness.

I contacted Apple to ask about a restriction in how one can pay for things at iTunes. Now that my PayPal nightmare has been straightened out, and now that I have an iPhone, I thought I'd get some cool apps [...]
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