Tag Archive 'Software'

Jun 24 2010

Lightroom 3 upgrade

Published by melastmohican under Adobe,News,Photo,Software

I did expect to have my LR3 Upgrade shipped so soon but couple days ago I got info from Amazon that it will be sent earlier than at the beginning of July. I got it today and installed it without making any special preparations. I have been doing upgrades on this machine since version 1 [...]

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Jun 08 2010

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 released.

Published by melastmohican under Adobe,News,Photo,Software

Beta was out for while so we got a glimpse of what is going to be there. Briefly I want highlight what’s new: Noise reduction – natural-looking results from your high ISO images with noise reduction technology Lens correction – automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles Flickr [...]

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Mar 25 2010

Howto capture your screen into video with VLC.

Published by melastmohican under Software,Windows

I guess many people, including me, did not know that free media player, VLC, can be used to create screencasts of your desktop. It may require some experimentation to come up with the right settings but you do not have to buy any special software to do it. You need download and install VLC. 1. [...]

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Mar 10 2010

Google Maps now offers biking directions!

As an every day commuter I am really happy to see this happening. The bike directions take a lot of factors into consideration: designated bike lanes, tries to avoid areas with lots of hill climbs and drops, busy roads and intersections. In giving estimates on trip times, Google uses an average person at an average [...]

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Dec 01 2009

Lightroom 2.6 available

Published by melastmohican under Adobe,Photo,Software

Adobe has announced the availability of Lightroom 2.6 and Camera Raw 5.6 at Adobe Labs.

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Aug 06 2008

Ant Movie Catalog

Ant Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available) program made to manage your collection of movies on DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, …) and tapes. If you use GNU/Linux rather than Windows, you can try to use WinE to get this program running; some people notified me that this was [...]

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