Now that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 has been released and I’ve had some time to get familiar with it, I thought I’d follow up on a post I made back on January 19th of this year that explained how to get set up for tethered shooting using Lightroom 4.1 Beta since there are a few differences in version 1.0. There will be a fair amount of redundancy in this post for the sake of being as comprehensive and clear as possible. That said, this time I’ll demonstrate how to get set up for tethered shooting using the following equipment: a Canon Digital Rebel XTi camera, a USB cable, an Apple PowerBook G4 computer running OSX 10.4.9, Canon EOS Utility 1.1.0.8 for image import, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 for image viewing. Here’s the step-by-step. (more…)

Last week Thursday, the LCD on my 17″ PowerBook G4 headed south for… well, some reason or another. The symptom was a 150-ish pixel wide, 50-ish% transparent white stripe which ran vertically about 200-ish pixels to the right of the left-hand edge of the screen. The stripe was on top of everything including any applications, the Finder and the Dock. The helpful folks at the Genius Bar of my local Apple Store came to the conclusion, as did I, that the machine needed to go out for service. So, off to AppleCare it went. (more…)

I was just reading one of Scott Kelby’s blogs and came across some pure genious that I have to pass along. I think all will enjoy, however, those of you that have a little bit of experience working with Flash (particularly Flash symbols) will find this animation by Alan Becker especially hilarious. Made me laugh out loud (all three times I watched it)! Make sure you have your speakers on and enjoy…

No… not the Basketball contests and festivities during this fine month of March - I’m referring to the madness which has ensued around the office here at Pocker Design over the last several weeks. I don’t want to say anything that might let the cat out of the bag (so to speak), however I do want to mention that some exciting things are going on around here that we hope to formally announce by May, 2008. We’ve been listening carefully to what our clients have to say, and as a result, will be rolling out some new value added services that we hope our clients are going to love. The one thing I can start a “rumor” about is that there is a re-branding in our future… Stay tuned!

I tend to be pretty skeptical of claims made in late night TV infomercials. You know the routine - you’re up late, can’t sleep, not quite totally alert (after a hard day of hand coding XHTML and CSS), don’t feel like reading or doing anything productive, so you flip on the tube and get sucked into the infomercial vortex. My default reaction to most of the “paid programs” is: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That said, one of them finally got me. It was the Bowflex infomercial. One of my new year’s resolutions for 2007 was/is to get healthier, so I ordered a Bowflex Xtreme 2 Home Gym. After I placed the order I was second guessing myself wondering if I had just made a $1600 mistake… (more…)