Apr

24

Gettin oot and abooot…

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Gettin oot and abooot... (image: citoedmonton150)This past weekend saw Earthday come and go, and with it, the annual GeoCaching CITO event. The local GeoCaching community pitched in and cleaned up 3-4 pickup truck loads of trash from ’s award-winning river valley. Yes, lots of photos on the Cache Page Gallery.

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Apr

13

Google Calendar is finally here….

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Google Calendar is finally here.... (image: gcal)It’s finally arrived… Calendar promises to be the Holy Grail of calendaring applications.

** Update **

So, why doesn’t Calendar sync with PDA Devices? Really, until there’s a way to enable PDA sync, this is really a limited app. Using iCal as described below is a kludge. Need a native app to do this.
** End Update **

For a year or so, I’ve been looking for something that would let me coordinate my work, home, hobby and significant others’ calendars into one nice tidy package. It seems that Calendar may just be that package.

I’ve discovered one ‘minor’ thing, which may be based on how I get data out of my pilot and into GC….Timezones are screwed. We’re in GMT -7, but for everything to work, I have to set GC to GMT -1. Not a big issue right now, but should I layer in other calendars, things could get hairy.

I have a feeling that the gPilot utility I use to generate .ics files on my Ubuntu box doesn’t do the TimeZone output properly…will check into it.

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Apr

11

How good is your chip?

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How good is your chip? (image: ISO_12233-reschart_150)Update — this item was originally published on my now defunct blog — .homeip.net. The URL to the digital has changed: here is the revised one.

How would you like to have your very own, high resolution, digital test target. You use these things to evaluate the quality of the chip/lens..etc of your digital camera.

Well now, thanks to the energy of an enterprising student at Cornell, you can. It seems that he’s been able to take publicly available references and descriptions of the chart and encode them in a .pdf file. Simply the file, print it off on a high quality laser, and you’ve got the chart. These things retail for around £ 100.

To really make use of it, you’ll need to print at 100% resolution. I was able to do it on 11×17 paper. Also, the higher the dpi the better. I used 1600¦seems acceptable.

[Found while surfing Slashdot[offsite] yesterday - referenced from dpnow.com[offsite] , here’s the original source[offsite] ]