Monthly Archives: August 2005

Google Talk Beta

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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 said technical information will be release in the near future.

This is why i love google, they know what developers want. Once the protocol is open, developers will hack on it, make it more robust, Flickr is a good example.

I guess this week’s most active project on SF will be GAIM

Medium format scanning

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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 properly, but the one that can scan medium format film is very hard to find (and, sure, very expensive)

I own Epson perfection 2480. It’s fine as long as using it for postcard/paper scanning. But quality for film scanning is kind of unacceptable (for me). It was probably a wrong decision for buying this.

Last Saturday, i took some photo with my Holga, a medium format camera. Because it’s a panoramic photo, most of lab refuse to print it. – This is why i hate digital lab. They depend on their machine too much. If anything machine cannot do, they won’t do even it can be done by hand.

Damn… after read this entry for a second time. I know that my English SUCKS.
Better to write in Thai.