I moved over to Gallery2 from Coppermine tonight. I preferred Coppermine in the past due to the slow speed of Gallery2. I’ll see how it goes and please excuse the broken image links.
Moved to gallery2
September 14, 2007
MarsEdit 2.0 released
September 4, 2007
MarsEdit 2 has been released. Some UI improvements, and a vastly improved media manager. It appears that this will simplify uploading photos, which addresses the points of previous posts about needing to upload different images to compensate for the .Mac gallery compression.
.Mac iPhoto Gallery quality
August 30, 2007
I’m hardly a pro-am but I still want my photos to display well. It is argued that today’s consumers more than ever accept “just good enough” when it comes to audio and video and disregard any increase in quality, but I disagree. The quality of content is indeed heavily influenced by the quality of the medium. A grainy photo or film is not going to have the same impact as a vivid representation (unless that is the intention of the medium as in film noir).
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iWeb versus WordPress
August 30, 2007
WordPress, Livejournal, Blogger, Blogspot, and Moveable Type cover darn near the full spectrum of tools for the more savvy blogger. I’ve run my blog on MT and WordPress for years and they are the tools with which I am most comfortable. There is a level of control in being able to really get in and mess with code that appeals – even when the user is not a savvy coder.
However, it was time I tried iWeb and .Mac publishing. There are some using it as their full-fledged blogging and site construction solution and it is a matter of time before someone asks me if I have used it. Time to dive in and test the waters.
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