Rob Haggart looks at cloud storage costs for photographers
Interested in a cloud storage service as a bulletproof backup solution? Rob Haggart over at A Photo Editor takes a look at the pros and cons and also tallies up the costs… http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/02/04/online-storage-for-photographers/
500 GB HDD failure – and why I don’t care
Yesterday one of my 500 GB drives failed. I didn’t get a lot of warning – a little bit of drive noise one day, then “I/O error” the next – I was able to pull one folder off of it before it got worse – now all I get is “File record segment is unreadable” [...]
External backup just got faster
I’ve written before about the absolute criticality of backing up your files on a regular basis, both locally and remote. Simply put, photos are irreplaceable whether their your own or a client’s: hard drives, be they in Macs or Windows, eventually fail; bad guys steal stuff; fires, flooding, spilled coffee, drops onto concrete floors, lost [...]
New Lighting Diagram App for iPhone
My friend Stewart Smith posted a review of a new iPhone app that lets you do lighting diagrams on your phone, either to plan a shoot or to let people know how you set up a shot after the fact. It’s a little basic right now, but it’s a new release and I think it [...]
The new site
Here’s the new look and feel of the web site – I did a total redesign to add better support for galleries, integrate a Photoshelter archive, and customize the look and feel of the site. For the curious, this is a WordPress.org blog using the Modfolio theme from GraphPaperPress and is hosted on godaddy.com. GPP [...]
