Entries from July 2006

Adobe releases Lightroom beta for Windows

July 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Adobe Lightroom, the software “built from the ground up by photographers, for photographers,” now has a Windows version of its beta. I tried it and I was blown away with the way it allows you to edit your photographs.
The Windows version is labeled Beta 3 but Adobe’s announcement says the program is slightly behind the [...]

Tags: Photography

Put some oomph into your blog with Zooomr and Lightbox

July 19th, 2006 · 9 Comments

Use snazzy image loading effects in your blog with Lightbox JS and a Zooomr account (quick, they’re still offering free pro accounts to bloggers, get yours).
Lightbox JS allows you to load larger versions of images on the same page via a cool overlay window. The rest of the page is dimmed with a grayish transparency. [...]

Tags: Blogs · Highlights · WebTech

Zooomr 2.0 now live

July 18th, 2006 · No Comments

After days of being delayed by a denial of service attack, Zooomr finally launched version 2.0 of its service today. Apart from finally being able to try features the Zooomr team has added, I’m just relieved that I can finally use the service.
I really like Zooomr, especially with the way it promoted its service among [...]

Tags: Free services

Newsforge: A lot to like in Serendipity but nothing compelling to switch

July 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Open source news site Newsforge has published a review of the 1.0 version of Serendipity, the blog script that I used for previous versions of the Cybercafe Experiments.
According to the article, installing Serendipity to manage your blog “is a breeze” and shouldn’t be a problem to someone who has experience installing web scripts like WordPress. [...]

Tags: Blogs · Open source

Denial of service attack delays Zooomr 2.0 launch

July 17th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Flickr competitor Zooomr was set to launch version 2.0 of its service last week and it created such a loud buzz with its free pro account offer for bloggers. That launch has been delayed by a denial of service attack.
Zooomr said in its blog that the attack has been dealt with and they’re just fine-tuning [...]

Tags: Free services

Running a newsroom intranet on Ubuntu, MediaWiki and a discarded PC

July 14th, 2006 · 4 Comments

When the newsroom replaced aging computers used by reporters for word processing last year, I salvaged one central processing unit, a pair of RAM modules and the biggest hard disk of the lot with the intention of putting up a newsroom intranet server.
I eventually built a newsroom intranet server using various open source PHP/MySQL scripts. [...]

Tags: Journalism · Newsroom tech · Open source