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June 10, 2007 12:03 pm

Apple LCDs for photo editing

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by    in mac,Photography,Reviews,Technology

For some preliminary reading on how to choose a LCD monitor for photo editing, read this previous post.

It is “assumed” that apple LCDs are much better than others for photo editing. However, I read this which totally surprised me.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?threadid=74635

Looks like Apple uses TN panels in Macbook Pros, which sucks. Really sucks. If I have to buy a laptop for photo editing, the only one I would consider is the Macbook pro. I was surprised to read about TN panels there. [Caveat - the new LED backlit mac book pros might be different].

Apparently, the 17″ imacs also have TN panels [confirmed in http://www.flatpanels.dk], whereas the 20″ and 24″ iMacs have IPS or PVA panels [mostly anectodal evidence].

I really wish all LCD manufacturers specify the type of LCD panel in their specifications!

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June 7, 2007 7:18 am

National Association of Photoshop Professionals Podcasts

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by    in appleTv,Photography

I am slowly getting hooked onto Podcasts – thanks to apple tv.

If you are a digital photographer, the NAPP podcasts are amazing.

http://www.imaginginsider.com/?p=32179

Search for NAPP in iTunes store and subscribe. Oh, the Steve Jobs / Bill Gates interview is not available in iTunes as a video podcast as well. It is pretty huge [~900 MB video], but it is awesome. I watched the whole thing *again*. If you are a geek, it is a MUST watch.

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June 1, 2007 4:47 pm

Apple tv, windows xp and linksys wrt54g

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I switched to an iMac for my home use [photo editing, video editing, some coding]. Life has been blissful. It was soon followed by an appleTv which was a breeze to set up. Seeing photos on large screen TV with music is really cool. Soon enough, an airport extreme followed.

My sis-in-law saw the setup, saw how easy it was to set this thing up and bought an Apple Tv. She runs Windows XP and has a Linksys WRT54G router. I expected the setup to be as painless as my mac setup – and I was wrong.

We could never get iTunes in XP to see apple tv. The apple tv got a proper IP address, talked to the internet just fine [downloads movie trailers], was pingable from the windows box, but no, it won’t simply show up in the iTunes devices list.

We tried everything Apple’s website says. Turned off Windows firewall [makes sense], turned off the routers firewall [makes no sense], punched holes for the iTunes sharing ports. Added the ports explicitly in windows firewall – and in the router. Nothing, nothing worked.

Apple’s tech support wasn’t very helpful apart from saying “talk to Microsoft or Linksys”. The Genius bar “genius” did a factory reset on the apple tv and it showed up in his Windows XP. Of course, that meant that he also said “talk to Microsoft or Linksys”.

So after about 20 hours of painful debugging, netstat -a, firmware upgrades on the wrt54g, infinite reboots of all 3 devices, her apple tv went back :( . I still like my apple tv, it just works fine for me – but when things go wrong, particularly in a multi vendor situation, you are pretty much on your own.

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