The Androids are here……

At long last, I have ditched my trusty Palm 755p in favor of an Android phone.  I got the HTC Evo and it thoroughly rocks.  I suppose I could draw the inevitable conclusions to the iPhone, but I’ll refrain.  I’m a big fan of the “the right tool for the right job” and “stick with [...]

This is why I keep my skills up…..

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Recent projects

I recently had the pleasure of doing projection design for Gustav Holst’s The Planets.  The Butler Symphony Orchestra had it scheduled for a while and the conductor, Richard Auldon Clark, and I sort of joked about doing “some projection”.  One thing led to another and whadda ya know- we did it.  I thought that projecting [...]

Apple’s Newest Critter

Well Apple announced the much-anticipated iPad yesterday.  There has been a flurry of hands-on and other reviews, but at the outset I would have to say I’m underwhelmed.  The folks at OWC have been offering a tablet mod for the Macbook for a couple of years now and I’d be more inclined to go that [...]

New camera…

We have entered the 21st century and bought a video camera.  It is actually our Christmas present to each other, but the reason is simplicity.  We had a camcorder that we bought before Olivia was born, so it’s a bit outdated. Plus- digitizing all the tapes is a pain.  It’s a surprisingly common problem.  The [...]

Web Browser Trauma

Ever since I made the switch to Mac, I’ve been using Safari as my primary web browser and I’ve gotten really used to it so I was excited when I saw there was a new release coming out.  I downloaded the most recent version of Safari (public beta 4) and it is completely cool.  Except [...]

Isadora

While this weekend’s gig was fairly painful, there was one bright spot.  To make a long story short, I am required to roll a couple of DVD clips for an awards program.  The problem is that there are very few pro-level DVD players that allow the type of cueing that I need- and they are [...]

More Gmail

I can’t rave enough about Gmail from Google. I started to experiment with the “multiple inbox” feature and man is it going to be a time-saver. I have Gmail set to retrieve my mail from all my Goochzone accounts and they are set to be automatically tagged with a “label” (Gmail’s answer to [...]

iBook G4 repair

One good thing about the Opera being in the Hall is that we get a fair amount of extra staff here and that invariably leads to “hey, I’ve got this problem with my computer- any idea what it is?”.  Today’s was an old iBook G4.  It turns out it is a problem with the logic [...]

The Goochzone gets Twitter

Well it had to happen at some point.  I’m experimenting with Twitter on the right-hand sidebar.  A microblog on a blog site, you say?  What’s the point?  Well I’m not sure just yet.  I do use Facebook a lot, and it’s a fairly good way of keeping in touch….but Twitter can open up some possibilities [...]