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Red

6 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Particularly intense botanical red; it remains the Achilles’ heel of the sensor in many (all?) digicams. I often see things in my garden that I just can...

CL XVII: Faraways

10 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
It’s May so Cottage Life is recurring. On the island, many of the things one sees and wishes to photograph are far away thus must be captured through fairly...

Sensplore

11 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I’ve been working on some ideas for clean-screen apps; instead of controlling them with the touch screen, you wave your device around or tap it or shake...

Springies

12 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Two wet rhodos and a tricolor carpet....

Ghost Fluff

15 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Actually, the title is The Ghost Writer; I first noticed it in a movie my neighbor on a plane was watching and thought the visuals were pretty good. Which...

Browsers and Apps in 2012

17 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
It’s like this: The browser’s doomed, because apps are the future. Wait! Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future. I see something almost every day...

A Million Lives Saved

21 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Well, not really. But my LifeSaver 2 app has now uploaded over a million calls and messages for a temporary stay in the cloud and (in theory) transfer...

Same Old Sex Organs

26 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
Of plants, I mean, of course. Which is to say, around this time every year I get all deranged about the flowers and inflict loads of pictures of them on...

More On That Pipeline

26 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
I’ve written before about the BC pipeline controversy. Like many Canadians, I’m unconvinced that it makes sense to bet heavily on filthy carbon-laden bitumen...

Tab Trick

27 days ago by Tim Bray on ongoing.
A person watching over my shoulder asked “How are you switching around so fast?” and I realized that while most readers here know this trick, some may not...