Using your Mac, Linux or windows box, you can automatically manipulate images from the command line using ImageMagick. Most often, I use it to easily add borders to my images. I know I could use a plugin for Aperture, but I often use the “out of camera” JPEG files produced by shooting RAW+JPEG. The best part of the script that I am going to show you is that you can even run it on a web server where your website is hosted to batch adjust images, all in a matter of seconds.
I don’t use windows, so I will attempt to provide the best instructions that I can for Linux and MAC OSX based systems.
I’m starting a new weekly post here, at apeman.org. Every friday, I am going to post on of my favorite photos. I have thousands of images sitting on my servers spinning around on disk platters so I figured I’d share some of my favorites with a bit of background.
The Faster Times has a great article discussing the Canadian TV tax being considered by the CRTC (otherwise known as “Fee For Carriage”). Since I live in Canada, I am being bombarded with “Support Local TV” messages via the Global and CTV owned newspapers and news casts.
If you havn’t sent a letter to the CRTC yet, please do so, you can use the automated form at: http://www.stopthetvtax.ca/email-the-crtc/ as it only takes a minute to voice your opinion.
As of this writing, there are only six days left to provide your feedback to the CRTC! Say no to a tax payer funded bailout of CTV and Global.
With all of the recent changes on the Canadian television landscape, its hard to tell what is currently going on. On September 1st, the CRTC ruled that Cable, Satellite and IPTV services would have to remit a 1.5% fee to the new “Local Programming Improvement Fund”. At the same time, the CRTC also opened the door for “fee for carriage” which basically translates to around $6/month per household to pay for the channels that currently, and will continue to show commercials! So the recap, you will be paying more money per month for television service in Canada, but you will not bet getting anything in return.
Hot on the heels of the 1.5% tax that consumers will have to pay to the Local Programming Improvement Fund, and fee for carriage that is sure to see our Cable and Satellite bills ballon even further, the CRTC has stuck it to the consumer once again. Effective September 1st, Canadian broadcasters are now allowed to air as many commercials as they want, previously, broadcasters were limited to 15 minutes per hour of advertising. I have a feeling that this slipped past the media as two of the Canadian broadcasters, Global and CTV own the newspaper and TV news outlets.
I know a lot of new android users have been asking “will there be flash support”, well here is a demo of flash running on the T-Mobile G1 (same hardware as the Rogers HTC Dream).
Looks promising, hopefully this will be available soon!
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