GlobeTrotter is a new iPhone app for everyone who frequently has to work with or depends on people in different timezones. It offers easy and quick timezone calculations. Without hassle, without calculation errors. Set up unlimited timezones and see how they relate to each other:
What time is it in Tokio if it is 3PM in New York.
For everyone who finds himself calculating timezone differences ever so often because the built-in iPhone app doesn’t cut it, Globetrotter is the perfect, solution. Guaranteed.
Find out more about GlobeTrotter for iPhone or iPod Touch
Stylemac is all about open source graphic design programs. And, of course, the main one of them all is Blender. From Big Buck Bunny to Project Orange and everything in between, Blender is a very versatile imaging program.
Of course, this doesn’t mean it’s easy to use, the old adage of “easy to play, difficult to master” comes to mind.
I’ve been using Blender for a couple years now and thought I knew a bit of everything Blender had to offer, but I was wrong. I picked up this book by Allan Brito figuring it’d be a refresher in things I already knew, but I was wrong.
Not only does it show a few things I already knew, but a bit more on things I didn’t know. Even my mother, who has used Blender far longer than I have, was able to learn a great deal from this book.
The primary focus of the book is on creating building interiors and lighting effects, but the lessons learned can be put to different uses within Blender.
In all, I’d say this is a great book for new Blender users and veterans alike.
Link to Packt page for the book.
During one of the newer OS X software updates Apple extended the list of compatible RAW Cameras by the Sony Alpha a 200 and the a 350. The a 300 however was omitted. This is insofar weird, as the hardware differences between the a 200 and the a 300 have no effect neither on the ccd nor on the exposure / shutter options. The only difference is the tiltable LCD-Screen as well as the option to shoot using LiveView.
Thus the basic RAW picture from a a 300 should be similar to a picture from a a 200. I researched this a bit and found that that’s mostly the case. Thus I present a small script which will convert Alpha a 300 RAW Files to Alpha a 200 RAW Files. The process is rather simple.
You can download it either as a commandline script, or as a Automator Action. The commandline script can be used in the following way:
“python ./A300fix.py DSC0001.ARW” in order to convert the file DSC0001.ARW to A200 raw. Please note that the script doesn’t create copies but changes the original file. So you’re advised to create copies of your original RAW files in case anything doesn’t work out as expected – although this never happened to me so far.
Alternatively you can use “python ./A300fix.py all” to convert all scripts in the current directory.
The usage of the automator action should be rather clear.
Download the commandline script here
Download the Automator Action here
Isolator is a rather simple Freeware application that helps you gaining focus through covering everything on your screen except for the task at hand. This allows to concentrate on what you’re doing instead of repeated distractions by means of IM, Twitter, Mail or others.
Although Time Machine offers a very slick and intuitive interface to your past data, there can be situations, where you’d rather like a much more common list style approach to the changes off a specific file. Tms, a neat commandline tool from FernLightning does just that. It offers a cvs / svn like interface to your Time Machine data. Among the most interesting features is being able to Diff between two versions, being able to list the difference between two snapshops and listing all unique versions of a file.
The tool as well as the corresponding documentation can be found here.
