Archive for August 2005

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Google Talk Beta

Here they come… Google Talk It’s based on Jabber/XMPP protocol which is an open standard, designed for distributed environment. This is nice because it’s developer-friendly, nobody wants to reverse engineering a proprietary protocol. The voice feature is also good but unfortunately that it’s available only on Win32. But according to Google Talk’s developer info, it [...]

Medium format scanning

Film scanning is kind of tedious work, especially scanning with a consumer-level flatbed scanner. Its driver sucks, takes a lot of time to finish – about an hour for a roll of 35mm film. Moreover, the result is not good enough to do something useful. Most of flatbed scanner are able to scan 35mm film [...]

Blue sky

A secret to get a bright blue sky without using photoshop – use film & cross processing on a sunny day (works great with Revue film)