Articles - Computing

Modern cameras, including those built into smartphones, have the ability to record the GPS coordinates of the location at which an image was captured.  One of the features that I love about my Canon EOS 5D Mark IV is its in-built GPS receiver, which I enable when shooting.  I like to record the exact position [ continue reading ]

The image-driven social networking site Instagram has been on my mind for a while, and I have been mentally debating with myself whether to establish a presence there.  I always saw it as a site for mostly non-photographers to instantly publish random images of anything and everything, captured on the move with a mobile phone-based [ continue reading ]

For quite some time, I have been wanting to gather the EXIF data from all of my published images, and produce some statistics on various criteria such as exposure settings and equipment used.  During a recent period of renewed creative energy in the form of computer programming rather than photography, over the past month I finally [ continue reading ]

One of the photographic image hosting/gallery sites on which I participate is 500px.  I tend to browse through the 'Popular' image pages on a regular basis.  These pages show previews of 20 of the most popular images, ranked in order of popularity.  Tonight I discovered a rather amusing alignment of two separate images by two [ continue reading ]

I have just performed a long-overdue RAM upgrade on my mid-2009 MacBook Pro 17".  When I ordered it in mid-2009, I ordered it equipped with 4GB of RAM (2 x 2GB DIMMs).  At the time, equipping it with its maximum of 8GB was considerably expensive.  Three and a half years later, I have doubled my [ continue reading ]

On the past two occasions on which I have upgraded my Mac's operating system to the latest release, I have encountered show-stopping problems after the upgrade.  When upgrading from OS X 10.7.2 to 10.7.3, upon rebooting and logging in, the menu bar, buttons and other user interface elements were graphically messed up with 'test pattern'-like [ continue reading ]