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Baby, Just A Kiss
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Brilliant Beginner dance that just flows. It is great that you have relaunched the fantastic track by Steve Holy. Track also on Fever 14. Thanks Winnie. It is great to keep the Country music on the dance floor. So worth a teach.

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Whoever is in charge of the Greatest College Coach of all Time must be an Alabama alum, because in Knute Rockne's credentials for the ESPN poll, they list Knute with 6 national titles.
Anyway, Knute is currently getting destroyed in the poll with Bear Bryant and Tom Osborne running away with it. I realize Alabama and Nebraska fans might have less to do during the day which makes voting easier for them, but come on ND fans – get over and support Knute.
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DD commented on November 17th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Frank, no offence but statements like "I realize Alabama and Nebraska fans might have less to do during the day which makes voting easier for them" make it hard for anyone other than a Notre dame fan to vote for anything that relates to Notre Dame.
I won't get into the merits of the coaches because I will be accused of ND bashing but why can't ND fans ever get involved in these debates without their ever present persecution complex.
Notre Dame fans should be encouraged to support Knute but there is no need to slight those who voted for Bear or Tom, or should I say those that didn't vote for Knute.


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We had some requests to get GHC (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler) up and running on two new Ubuntu architectures: arm64, added in 13.10, and ppc64el, added in 14.04. This has been something of a saga, and has involved rather more late-night hacking than is probably good for me. Book the First: Recalled to a life of strange build systemsYou might not know it from the sheer bulk of uploads I do sometimes, but I actually don't speak a word of Haskell and it's not very high up my list of things to learn. But I am a pretty experienced build engineer, and I enjoy porting things to new architectures: I'm firmly of the belief that breadth of architecture support is a good way to shake out certain categories of issues in code, that it's worth doing aggressively across an entire distribution, and that, even if you don't think you need something now, new requirements have a habit of coming along when you least expect them and you might as well be prepared in advance. Furthermore, it annoys me when we have excessive noise in our build failure and proposed-migration output and I often put bits and pieces of spare time into gardening miscellaneous problems there, and at one point there was a lot of Haskell stuff on the list and it got a bit annoying to have to keep sending patches rather than just fixing things myself, and ... well, I ended up as probably the only non-Haskell-programmer on the Debian Haskell team and found myself fixing problems there in my free time. Life is a bit weird sometimes. Bootstrapping packages on a new architecture is a bit of a black art that only a fairly small number of relatively bitter and twisted people know very much about. Doing it in Ubuntu is specifically painful because we've always forbidden direct binary uploads: all binaries have to come from a build daemon. Compilers in particular often tend to be written in the language they compile, and it's not uncommon for them to build-depend on themselves: that is, you need a previous version of the compiler to build the compiler, stretching back to the dawn of time where somebody put things together with a big magnet or something. So how do you get started on a new architecture? Well, what we do in this case is we construct a binary somehow (usually involving cross-compilation) and insert it as a build-dependency for a proper build in Launchpad. The ability to do this is restricted to a small group of Canonical employees, partly because it's very easy to make mistakes and partly because things like the classic "Reflections on Trusting Trust" are in the backs of our minds somewhere. We have an iron rule for our own sanity that the injected build-dependencies must themselves have been built from the unmodified source package in Ubuntu, although there can be source modifications further back in the chain. Fortunately, we don't need to do this very often, but it does mean that as somebody who can do it I feel an obligation to try and unblock other people where I can. As far as constructing those build-dependencies goes, sometimes we look for binaries built by other distributions (particularly Debian), and that's pretty straightforward. In this case, though, these two architectures are pretty new and the Debian ports are only just getting going, and as far as I can tell none of the other distributions with active arm64 or ppc64el ports (or trivial name variants) has got as far as porting GHC yet. Well, OK. This was somewhere around the Christmas holidays and I had some time. Muggins here cracks his knuckles and decides to have a go at bootstrapping it from scratch. It can't be that hard, right? Not to mention that it was a blocker for over 600 entries on that build failure list I mentioned, which is definitely enough to make me sit up and take notice; we'd even had the odd customer request for it. Several attempts later and I was starting to doubt my sanity, not least for trying in the first place. We ship GHC 7.6, and upgrading to 7.8 is not a project I'd like to tackle until the much more experienced Haskell folks in Debian have switched to it in unstable. The porting documentation for 7.6 has bitrotted more or less beyond usability, and the corresponding documentation for 7.8 really isn't backportable to 7.6. I tried building 7.8 for ppc64el anyway, picking that on the basis that we had quicker hardware for it and didn't seem likely to be particularly more arduous than arm64 (ho ho), and I even got to the point of having a cross-built stage2 compiler (stage1, in the cross-building case, is a GHC binary that runs on your starting architecture and generates code for your target architecture) that I could copy over to a ppc64el box and try to use as the base for a fully-native build, but it segfaulted incomprehensibly just after spawning any child process. Compilers tend to do rather a lot, especially when they're built to use GCC to generate object code, so this was a pretty serious problem, and it resisted analysis. I poked at it for a while but didn't get anywhere, and I had other things to do so declared it a write-off and gave up. Book the Second: The golden thread of progressIn March, another mailing list conversation prodded me into finding a blog entry by Karel Gardas on building GHC for arm64. This was enough to be worth another look, and indeed it turned out that (with some help from Karel in private mail) I was able to cross-build a compiler that actually worked and could be used to run a fully-native build that also worked. Of course this was 7.8, since as I mentioned cross-building 7.6 is unrealistically difficult unless you're considerably more of an expert on GHC's labyrinthine build system than I am. OK, no problem, right? Getting a GHC at all is the hard bit, and 7.8 must be at least as capable as 7.6, so it should be able to build 7.6 easily enough ... Not so much. What I'd missed here was that compiler engineers generally only care very much about building the compiler with older versions of itself, and if the language in question has any kind of deprecation cycle then the compiler itself is likely to be behind on various things compared to more typical code since it has to be buildable with older versions. This means that the removal of some deprecated interfaces from 7.8 posed a problem, as did some changes in certain primops that had gained an associated compatibility layer in 7.8 but nobody had gone back to put the corresponding compatibility layer into 7.6. GHC supports running Haskell code through the C preprocessor, and there's a This was all interesting, and finally all that work was actually paying off in terms of getting to watch a slew of several hundred build failures vanish from arm64 (the final count was something like 640, I think). The fly in the ointment was that ppc64el was still blocked, as the problem there wasn't building 7.6, it was getting a working 7.8. But now I really did have other much more urgent things to do, so I figured I just wouldn't get to this by release time and stuck it on the figurative shelf. Book the Third: The track of a bugThen, last Friday, I cleared out my urgent pile and thought I'd have another quick look. (I get a bit obsessive about things like this that smell of "interesting intellectual puzzle".) slyfox on the #ghc IRC channel gave me some general debugging advice and, particularly usefully, a reduced example program that I could use to debug just the process-spawning problem without having to wade through noise from running the rest of the compiler. I reproduced the same problem there, and then found that the program crashed earlier (in You see, the vast majority of porting bugs come down to what I might call gross properties of the architecture. You have things like whether it's 32-bit or 64-bit, big-endian or little-endian, whether From some painstaking gdb work, one thing I eventually noticed was that Now, EpilogueThere's still more to do. I gather there may be a Google Summer of Code project in Linaro to write proper native code generation for GHC on arm64: this would make things a good deal faster, but also enable GHCi (the interpreter) and Template Haskell, and thus clear quite a few more build failures. Since there's already native code generation for ppc64 in GHC, getting it going for ppc64el would probably only be a couple of days' work at this point. But these are niceties by comparison, and I'm more than happy with what I got working for 14.04. The upshot of all of this is that I may be the first non-Haskell-programmer to ever port GHC to two entirely new architectures. I'm not sure if I gain much from that personally aside from a lot of lost sleep and being considered extremely strange. 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The bewildering labelling of pork
Animal welfare campaigners want to raise the profile of pig farming standards. But shoppers trying to buy "ethical" pork are met with a bewildering array of labelling. So could free-range pork be the next free-range chicken?
Look at all the logos and labels next time you browse for that pork purchase.
Outdoor reared. Outdoor bred. Organic. Free-range. Freedom Food endorsed. Red Tractor assured.
But however confusing the labyrinth of labels may be, the demand for ethically produced porcine products appears to be growing.
Waitrose - one of the few supermarkets that sells free-range pork - says sales of it are up 45% year on year, with free-range bacon up 26% and free-range sausages up 45%.
Tesco says sales of its Tesco Finest Pork - which is all outdoor bred or outdoor reared - are 20% up on last year.
There are industry-agreed terms for these labels, but charities such as the RSPCA and campaigns such as Jamie Oliver's Save our Bacon want things to go further - for clear labelling to be a legal requirement on all pork and pork product packaging.
Pork industry statistics
- 4.3 million pigs farmed in UK as of Dec 2011
- About 150 million pigs farmed in the EU - Germany and Spain lead with more than 25 million each
- About 1.5 million tonnes of pork consumed annually in the UK 2000-2008
- On average this year, UK imports more than 25,000 tonnes of pork a month, mainly from Denmark and Germany
- And exports 10,000-13,000 tonnes a month, mainly to Germany and Ireland
- UK pork self-sufficiency fallen to 49%, due to high production costs relative to other EU countries
Source: British Pig Executive (BPEX)
According to market research firm Mintel, some 43% of consumers say they buy free-range products whenever they can.
But while free range has had a huge impact on the egg industry, only about 1% to 2% of British pigs are totally free range, according to the National Pig Association (NPA).
For some animal welfare and environmental campaigners, such as Tracy Worcester, who wants an end to what she describes as "industrialised, factory pig farming - with crammed confinements, air and water pollution, and antibiotic-laden feed", it is surprising poultry rather than pigs were at the frontier of the free-range revolution.
"Why chickens were taken up to champion, when surely pigs, which are much more intelligent and social animals, were not more important, I don't understand," she says.
In 1995, barely anyone bought free-range eggs, with 86% British eggs coming from battery cages. Of the nine billion eggs laid in the UK in 2012, the British Egg Industry Council expects 49% of them to come from free-range hens allowed to roam outdoors - out selling those from hens in cages for the first time.
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What the label on your meat means |
Free range | |
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These pigs are born outside, in fields and they remain outside until they are sent for slaughter. They are provided with food, water and shelter and are free to roam within defined boundaries. Free range pigs have very generous minimum space allowances, which are worked out according to the soil conditions and rotation practices of the farm. Breeding sows are also kept outside, in fields for their productive life. |
Outdoor bred |
These pigs are born outside, in fields where they are kept until they are weaned. Breeding sows are kept in fields for their productive lives. Where soil types and climate might be problematic, pregnant sows can be housed for a defined and limited period in groups on deep straw bedding. They are provided with food, water and shelter with generous minimum space allowances. |
Outdoor reared |
These pigs are born outside in fields, where they are kept for about half their lives. Breeding sows are kept outside in fields for their productive lives. They are provided with food, water and shelter and generous minimum space allowances. |
The British Poultry Council says organic and free-range chicken products now account for 5% of UK poultry.
So if the free-range model has been so successful with poultry, would it work for the pork industry?
As things stand, consumers appear to be somewhat baffled when it comes to trying to distinguish between outdoor-reared - when a pig typically spends 50% of its life outside - and outdoor-bred - when pigs are born outside but moved inside about four weeks later, when they have been weaned.
How free is free range?
- Chickens for meat cannot be slaughtered until 56 days old. Up to 13 birds a sq m, but weighing no more than 27.5kg in total
- Must have continuous daytime access to open-air runs during at least half their lifetime - area must be mainly covered by vegetation and at least 2 sq m a bird
- Turkeys: Must be 70 days or older at slaughter
- Same rules on open-air runs, with at least 4 sq m a bird
- Eggs: Laid by hens with continuous outdoor access and at least 4 sq m a bird
- If kept indoors, no more than nine birds a sq m and at least one nest for every seven hens
- If more than one level is used, must be at least 45cm between levels
- Pork: No legal definition but UK's voluntary industry code requires permanent access to pasture throughout pigs' lives
There is also a Red Tractor logo, which guarantees pork has been produced to stringent standards which go beyond the legal minimum, says the British Pig Executive (BPEX).
In 2009, an RSPCA survey found that only 2% of those questioned understood the terms used.
The actual words "free range" are not widely seen in supermarkets because so few pigs roam around outside for the duration of their lives, says Zoe Davies, general manager of the NPA.
Their pork tends to be "very expensive, very niche", and it is mainly marketed to butchers, or through special deals in local pubs, she says.
British pig farmers have already had to cope with challenges such as swine flu, foot and mouth, and have already "paid a price" for going down the welfare route, she says.
A 1999 UK-wide ban on the use of sow stalls - metal enclosures in which female pigs are unable to turn around - resulted in an increase in production costs. It also made retailers opt for "cheaper, lower welfare pork" from Europe, says Davies. New EU-wide regulations will come into effect next year, however.
According to Davies, the UK ban had a big impact on the industry. There were about 800,000 sows in the UK before ban, now there's about 409,000.
"We were about 75% self-sufficient, now we are 50% self-sufficient," she says.
But will free range ever be the answer?
Davies believes it could also be "dangerous" to push the model too far, as it is not a clear-cut case in terms of animal welfare.
She says there are some really good indoor systems - with lots of straw, which allows pigs to root and build nests - while outdoor pigs units, with their metal huts, can be very cold in the middle of winter.
Vicky Bond, from Compassion in World Farming, which has set up the Good Pig Award to celebrate higher welfare pig systems, agrees that although in an ideal world all pigs would be kept in free-range systems - including outdoor bred and outdoor reared - it accepts that good welfare is possible in deep-straw bedded indoor systems.
But she says the charity wants indoor systems to use free farrowing, which ensures the sow is unrestricted during the time she gives birth and suckles her piglets.
There are also other practical reasons why free-range pork is unlikely to become the next free-range chicken, according to BPEX's Jon Bullock.
How many piglets?
About 60% of UK sows give birth in farrowing crates
Natural | Commercial |
Source: RSPCA |
Six piglets a litter |
12 piglets on average |
One litter a year |
2.26 litters a year |
Weaned at eight to 17 weeks |
Weaned at about 26 days |
Pigs like to spend about 70% of the day rooting - that is, diggings with their snouts, which can cause soil erosion.
As a result, he says, pork can only be produced outdoors on very specific types of land, and almost all the suitable land is already being used.
Ruth Clements, a vet and expert on sustainable farming practices at FAI Farms, says there are essentially "three Es" that need to be taken into account when considering animal farming systems - ethics, environment and economics - and all three need to add up to make a sustainable system.
"We're not going to see all pigs go free-range, and neither should we," she says.
"We need to focus on developing both good indoor and outdoor systems which focus on what an animal needs and wants, rather than trying to wedge them in to a system which does not add up in one or more of the three e's."
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The gunplay that has been plaguing Toronto all year has left yet another victim in hospital – but this one is the youngest yet and it happened in a place where she should have been safe: her own home.
A five-year-old girl was shot Thursday night, after bullets being fired outside her Scarlett Rd. apartment near Lawrence and Weston Rd. broke a window and struck her in the back.
Her frantic mother called 911 but decided she couldn't wait for an ambulance and transported her daughter to Humber River Regional Hospital. The victim has since been transferred to the Hospital for Sick Children. There's no word on her condition.
One suspect was taken into custody when arriving cops saw a man run from the scene towards the Humber River. They found the suspect hiding in some brush and hauled him out. But police have yet to find a weapon.
It's not clear what sparked this latest exchange of gunfire or who the bullets were intended for. The incident occurred in roughly the same area that has been the scene of so much recent tragedy.
There have been at least nine murders and several incidents of gunplay in the west end since the beginning of 2009. See the list here.
Many in the neighbourhood are blaming ongoing gang wars for the violence and pleading for police to put an end to the bloodshed.
The child becomes of the youngest victims of gunfire in recent memory. But sadly she's not the only one.
On the night of August 3, 2005, five-year-old Shaquan Cadougan was sitting with his family cooling out from a scorching hot day when gunfire erupted outside his Driftwood Ave. home.
The little boy was struck in the leg and forced to endure a long and painful recovery that included multiple operations, time in a wheelchair and the need to relearn how to walk. He was the youngest victim of the Year of the Gun.
In June 1999, three-year-old Breanna Davy was killed when a bullet meant for her father struck her in the head. Her dad remains paralyzed while the child's killer, Craig Patrick, was found guilty of the crime and sent to prison for life with no chance of parole for at least 25 years.
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Sugar Season "marches" on
A maple making workshop in Margaretville. It is finally that time of year again and Mike Porter (at center wearing sunglasses) opened his backyard syrup operation to the Catskill Forest Association and to anyone who wanted to learn about the Catskills tradition. One thing they may have learned is the season is off to a rough start. It's late and there have been very few days warm enough for the sap to run. And the sap, some say, has a very low sugar content. It can take more than 60 gallons to make one gallon of syrup. Usually it takes about 40, and that means burning excessive amounts of wood to boil it down. — Photo by Joe Moskowitz
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10 Mobile App Tools For Photographers 2013
About a year ago, I wrote a post on iPhone mobile apps to improve your photography, but a lot has changed since them, and there are some far more powerful tools on the market.
The mobile apps for photographers listed here don't actually allow you to take photos on your phone, they're all to do with before, during, and after the picture taking process.
Whether you want to process your photos on a tablet, need a tool to control your DSLR, want to scout a good location for your photos, or you just want help focusing, these 10 apps (both Android and iPhone) will help you do just that.
Snapseed – Free
Snapseed is a popular app, brought to you by the same people who created NIK Software, such as Color Efex 4 (although they've recently be bought by Google).
If you're not familiar with the software, then I think you'll be pleasantly surprised about the ease of use, and the control this little app gives you.
- Easily adjust your photos with a single tap using Auto Correct
- Tweak your photo to perfection with Tune Image
- Use Selective Adjust to enhance specific objects or areas in your photos
- Experiment with fun & innovative filters like Retrolux, Drama, Vintage, Grunge, and Tilt-Shift
- Add one of the many high quality frames for a finishing touch
- Share your creations via email, Google+, and other built-in sharing methods
This app is perfect if you transfer your photos over to your iPad with an SD card reader and edit them there.
The Photographer's Ephemeris – $8.99
The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) helps you plan outdoor photography shoots. It's a map-centric sun and moon calculator: see how the light will fall on the land, whether it's day or night, for almost anywhere on earth.
Ideal for landscape, nature, travel and outdoor photographers, TPE's map-based approach means you can search for any place name on the planet or position the map pin exactly where you want it.
As an avid landscape photographer, this is a must have for me. It's not cheap, but worth it.
- Time and direction of sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset
- Phase of the moon and % illumination
- Times of civil, nautical and astronomical twilight
- Graphical display on a wide selection of map types
- Movable map pins – drag and drop the pin exactly where you need it
- Compass display built-in for scouting in the field (on compatible devices)
- Shadow lengths displayed to scale on map
- Save any location you want – no fixed lists
- Key celestial events for the year, including moon phases, solstices, equinoxes
- Does not require network connection for rise/set time, azimuths and sun/moon position
Easy Model Release – $9.99
Easy Release replaces inconvenient paper model release and property release forms with a slick, streamlined application designed for professional photographers.
You should all be in the habit of having your models sign releases when you need them, and this app makes it very easy for you to do.
Sure, it's a little bit expensive, but you get what you pay for. This sort of thing shouldn't be free.
Lets you collect all the data and signatures you need right on your iPhone, then mails a PDF and JPEG of the release right to you.
- Import model and witness information from your contacts. Get location data from a list of previously used.
- Comes pre-bundled with industry standard model and property releases in 13 languages that are currently in use by leading photo agencies like Getty Images, Alamy and others.
- Customizable "branding header" for logo image, company name, and contact info can be turned on/off per release or release type.
- Add as many custom model and property versions as you want.
- Custom releases may contain "field-placeholders" for inserting data into the body of your legal text. Simply prepare your custom releases in an email to yourself then copy/paste into Easy Release!
- Select legal text version to use on a per-release basis.
- For each release, you may specify an optional "Addendum" to legal text which prints below your text.
Stuck On Earth – Free
iTunes – (Android coming soon)
This app is created by Trey Ratcliff, who runs one of the most popular travel photography sites in the world, Stuck in Customs.
Oh, stuck in customs, travel photography, I think I just got that.
Anyway, it's a great app for helping you to scout locations that you want to shoot, from around the world. There's a great community on there too. Here's some features.
- Discover millions of amazing places to visit – the best of the best.
- A smart algorithm chooses the best locations and photos based on a combination of crowdsourcing and curation.
- A wonderful map interface that allows you to zoom into any level in any country to find the best places to visit.
- No ideas for future trips or places to photograph? Try our countless Top 50 Lists to get inspired! Create trips for the future: "Florida in 2013″ or "Wine escapade in France, le sigh!"
- All saved trips are available offline, since I know when you are on the road, connectivity can be tough.
- A customized experienced based on your personality type – Photographer, Explorer, or Daydreamer.
Pocket Light Meter – Free
A light meter that is always in your pocket. It is indispensable for film photography with all manual camera. Measures reflected light, and allows reciprocity calculations.
It was the first application that brought live view light metering to iOS devices back in 2010.
It's now got better low light capabilites and switching of aperture, ISO and shutter speed scales on the fly is really easy.
This app is mostly for film photographers out there, but you may still find yourself using this app if you're shooting on digital too.
I think it's a great way to learn light on manual mode. Train your eyes to see the light, and know what to expect when it comes to exposure.
Adobe Photoshop Express
This is a great little image editor for your phone and tablet, but remember, this is just an express version. Don't expect it to handle layers and masking just yet.
With Photoshop Express, it's easy to improve your photos. Choose from a variety of one-touch effects, or simply drag your finger across the screen to crop, rotate, or adjust color.
Add artistic filters like Soft Focus or Sketch. And never fear: A copy of your original file is always saved, and you can undo and redo changes until you get just the look you want.
Top editing features:
- Basics: Crop, Straighten, Rotate, and Flip
- Color: Exposure, Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Tint, and Temperature
- Filters: Black & White, Colorize, Sketch, Soft Focus, Sharpen, and Reduce Noise
- Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black and White, and 45 additional effects that can be purchased
DSLR Controller – $9.99
This app is amazing. We're finally starting to see the sort of control I want from a smartphone with my camera, even if it is tethered. And only available on Android.
DSLR Controller is the first and only app that allows you to fully control your Canon EOS DSLR from your Android device with only a USB cable. No computer or laptop required, no root required, only a compatible mobile device, a compatible camera, and the right USB cable.
Features include but are not limited to:
– Live View
– Auto Focus (tap Live View)
– Manual focus adjustments (in AF mode)
– Histogram
– Zoom control
– Grid and aspect ratio overlay
– Bulb capture
– Continuous capture
– Image review (+ follow shot, gallery)
– Image filters (peaking, contrast, channel mask, grayscale, 4 modes/filter)
– Video recording
– HDR/Auto Exposure Bracketing
– Focus Bracketing (incl. HDR)
– Focus A-B
– Mirror Lockup support
– Timelapse (incl. HDR)
– Wi-Fi Passthrough
– Extensive modification of settings
— Shutter speed
— Aperture
— ExpComp and Bracket
— ISO speed
— Auto-Focus Mode
— Focus and Zoom area (tap-and-hold Live View)
— Picture Style
— Drive Mode
— White Balance
— Color Temperature
— Auto-Lighting Optimizer
— Metering Mode
— Image and video quality and format
Things are looking good.
NOTE: The product is not finished yet and there will still be issues.
DSLR Camera Remote Pro – $9.99
DSLR Camera Remote Free is the next-generation remote release for your Canon or Nikon DSLR camera.
It's similar to the app above, only it works over WiFi and not tethered. Depending on your circumstances, you may prefer one to the other.
Just connect your camera to a WiFi enabled computer and you can instantly fire the shutter and review images using your Apple iOS device.
DSLR Camera Remote is a must-have for remote shooting applications like high or low angles, self-portraits and studio photography. All you need is your Canon EOS or Nikon DSLR and a WiFi enabled computer to start shooting now.
You can remotely adjust camera settings like White Balance, Shutter Speed, etc. As well as intervalometer, LiveView, Video Recording, Burst Mode, Bracketing and more.
- Remotely fire your DSLR Camera over any WiFi network
- Remotely adjust your DSLR Camera settings like White Balance, Shutter Speed, Aperture and Exposure Compensation
- Image Review lets you see the image you just photographed from your DSLR camera on your iOS device
- LiveView mode lets you see through the camera's viewfinder right on your device (requires a supported camera)
- Start, monitor and stop video recording on supported cameras
- Intervalometer lets you create a custom self-timer or take up to 999 shots from as little as 1 second apart to up to 1 day apart.
- Auto Bracketing mode for expanded exposure brackets, perfect for HDR.
- Burst Mode for continuous shooting.
- Great for camera angles where it is difficult to see through the viewfinder
- Use it for self-portraits, you can compose and review your shot without having to move to the camera
- Use it for remote firing at weddings and sporting events.
Depth of Field Calculator – $0.99
Most amateur photographers have a very confused look on their face when you say the words hyperfocal distance.
It's all about making the most out of your depth of field by focusing in the right part of a scene.
It comes down to some complicated maths, but to take the edge off, you can always rely on this app to do the working out for you.
Just type in the distance to the subject, the focal length being used and the f-stop and the App calculates the near and far distances of acceptable focus and therefore the depth of field.
This is all shown on an easy to understand diagram.
Photo Tools – Free
This is a really handy selection of tools for photographers. You might require some background knowledge to know how to use them, but they're all pretty simple.
Tools available:
– DOF & Hyperfocal Distance Calculator
– Field Of View Calculator
– Exposure Reciprocation Calculator
– Flash Exposure Calculator
– Multiple Exposure Compensation
– Minimal Shutterspeed Calculator
– Bellows Extension Calculator
– Time Lapse Calculator
– Timer
– Stopwatch
– Light Meter (using Camera & EXIF)
– Sunny 16 (EV) Calculator
– Blue & Golden Hour Calculator
– Moon Phase & Exposure Calculator
– Location Info
– Weather Forecast
– Graycard
– Color Wheel
– Color Temperature Chart
– Image Histogram Viewer
– Image EXIF Reader
– Photo Enlargement Calculator
– Sharpening Radius Estimator
– Level Indicator
– Check Lists
– Grid Overlay Camera
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If you want to capture beautiful images, without the frustration of a complicated camera, then watch my FREE video: All you have to do is click here.
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2 thoughts on "10 Mobile App Tools For Photographers 2013"
jennyphoto99 Hi JoshGreat list of apps! I hadnt heard of many of them, I will have to try them outAnother great app for iphone or ipad are the photography assignment generators!
They have tons of great assignments, random objects, combinations, and scavenger hunt lists. It's really helped improve my photography and gotten me to think outside the box. If you are taking part in a 365 photo challenge, there is also a daily reminder function that will kick you in the butt to get it done!
There are versions for SLR shooters and for iphoneographers(like me…dont have a big fancy slr yet but will probably upgrade eventually!)Thanks for all the great info on your site! Love your ebook.jennym↓ -
Photoxor On Android have a look at "Photoxor Calculations & GPS". It is a tool for exposure calculations, depth of field calculations, circle of confusion calculations, and also provides GPS tracking.
I first developed this tool set for myself, but it is now available for free on Google Play
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Diet for a more-crowded planet: plants
Rising incomes raise appetite for meat. But how many can 'eat like an American'?
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In the first quarter of 2008, grain prices climbed to a 30-year high. On average, food prices are 54 percent higher than in 2007. Grains have gone up 92 percent. Hungry mobs, hard-pressed to afford staples, rioted in Haiti, Mexico, and Bangladesh.
Experts point to a "perfect storm" of speculation, hoarding, drought in Australia, and diversion of grain to biofuels as culprits in the global food crisis.
But for some, the skyrocketing grain prices fulfill a longstanding prediction: A growing world population has more buying power. The newly affluent eat more meat. A rising share of the world's agricultural output goes to animals. While grain supplies are more than adequate to feed everyone now, say experts, the current price spike shows that even an adequate supply doesn't preclude hunger for the world's poor. And in the future, a day may come when there isn't enough grain for both humans and livestock – at least not at the US consumption rate. Add to this the environmental impacts of modern industrial-scale meat production, and many wonder: With a predicted world population of 9.5 billion by midcentury, are we all destined to be vegetarians?
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This article by The Post-Standard's Dave Tobin appeared March 30. The remaining Achievement Award winners will be profiled starting March 29 and will be posted here as they appear.
After news came out last year about Bob Hood's charity work with rural villagers in Haiti, a Syracuse-area contractor contacted Hood and offered to build a bridge over a Haitian creek that villagers slosh through every day.
Hood, who has made dozens of trips to Haiti in the past six years, gathered bridge span and soil information.
Then he talked to a Haitian engineer, who gave him some advice: Don't build the bridge. Help the Haitian villagers build it themselves. Don't hire a backhoe, let them dig the foundation themselves. Don't bring in trucks of gravel. Let each child bring a stone each day on their way to school, for months. That's how the Haitians will have ownership of the bridge, and how they will end up with more than a bridge - an empowered sense of accomplishment.
The more Hood works with Haitians, the more he realizes he has to get out of the way.
"If I empty myself out and become less, I can bring more of God's spirit to whatever I'm doing," he said.
It's not easy for someone with Hood's vision, energy and impatience to step back and wait for people to help themselves. But he's learning.
Hood did well enough in commercial real estate to sell the Robert Hood Co. when he was 50 and retire. He volunteered with the Rescue Mission and built Common Grounds, a Cazenovia coffeehouse that houses a teenage service organization.
In 2001, his daughter Kara, died after being struck by a car in South Africa. Despair over Kara's death prompted Hood to look deeper for meaning in his life. He hooked up with Haiti through his local church - St. James, in Cazenovia, which was working with a new Roman Catholic parish in the rural village of Thibeau.
Hood visited Thibeau - a village with extreme poverty, high illiteracy and children dying form waterborne disease - and committed himself to the people of St. Ives parish. He donated $60,000 to drill wells and to build a rectory compound and a community center named in honor of Kara. He helped raise money for water purification systems and school tuition. He brought to Thibeau Ruth Colvin, founder of Literacy Volunteers of America, to try to start a Haitian Creole literacy program.
In business, Hood was quick to seize opportunities, to study why some things worked and others didn't. He's brings that same sensibility to his work in Haiti. Lately, inspired by the micro-loan work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, he's been rethinking his approach there.
"I'm no longer going to give money to Haiti the way I was," he said. "Giving money outright, dollars only have one life. You give money to an organization, and next year they need more."
Instead, Hood plans to loan money to Haitians and arrange training for them to start businesses - such as tailor and bicycle repair shops, masonry businesses and sustainable farms.
A networker and communicator, Hood is connecting charitable organizations in Haiti with U.S. donors who want to help Haiti's poor.
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In the U.S., he's secured a four-year commitment from the central New York Rotary district and Rotary International to pay for medical, water purification and literacy projects in Haiti.
"The challenge is, 'What is the next thing to do?'¤" Hood said. "Anything we do, we need to put somebody on the ground (to monitor it). We can't do it for them. We have to show them how to do it for themselves. That takes a lot longer than what we're used to."
Dave Tobin can be reached at email@example.com and 470-3277.


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July 19, 2001--I have finally posted the information collected over several years using Family Tree Maker. Not yet listed here is new information on the Barton and Hendon lines. Much of the data on the Higginbottom/Jorden ancestors is thanks to Lori Naughton. Thanks also go to my sister, Nancy LaPlante, and my mother, Patti Higginbottom, for valuable information they have shared. On the Slaman side, I am indebted to my mother- and father-in-law, Raymond T. Slaman, Sr. and Lucy Mary Richards Slaman, as well as their siblings and cousins who have offered what they know. I would appreciate any additional information, or corrections... this is an ongoing work with no expected date of completion! |
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Different screen sizes
Designing a UI to accommodate different screen sizes can be a challenge. If you're designing an app for different BlackBerry smartphones, keep reading to discover ways to design it more efficiently.
If you use UI components that are included in the BlackBerry Application Platform, the components are scaled based on the screen size. If you use custom UI components, try dynamic layouts, such as a dock or stack layout.
See below for the full display specifications of released devices:
Model and input method | Display | Screen size | Aspect ratio | Screen density |
BlackBerry Z10 smartphone Touch screen |
768 x 1280 pixels 4.19 in |
15:9 |
356 ppi 0.07125 mm (dot pitch) |
BlackBerry Z30 smartphone Touch screen |
720 x 1280 pixels 4.97 in |
16:9 |
295 ppi 0.0860 mm (dot pitch) |
BlackBerry Q10 smartphone Touch screen and physical keyboard |
720 x 720 pixels 3.1 in |
1:1 square |
330 ppi 0.077 mm (dot pitch) |
BlackBerry Q5 smartphone Touch screen and physical keyboard |
720 x 720 pixels 3.1 in |
1:1 square |
330 ppi 0.077 mm (dot pitch) |
Porsche Design P'9982 smartphone from BlackBerry Touch screen |
768 x 1280 pixels 4.19 in |
15:9 |
356 ppi 0.07125 mm (dot pitch) |
BlackBerry Z3 smartphone Touch screen |
720 x 1280 pixels (see note below) 4.98 in |
16:9 |
295 ppi (see note below) 0.0860 mm (dot pitch) |
Porsche Design P'9983 smartphone from BlackBerry Touch screen and physical keyboard |
720 x 720 pixels 3.1 in |
1:1 |
330 ppi 0.077 mm (dot pitch) |
BlackBerry Passport smartphone Touch screen and touch-sensitive physical keyboard |
1440 x 1440 pixels 4.5 in |
1:1 |
453 ppi 0.0561 mm (dot pitch) |
BlackBerry Classic smartphone Touch screen and physical keyboard, including a trackpad and navigation keys |
720 x 720 pixels 3.5 in |
1:1 |
294 ppi 0.0287 mm (dot pitch) |
The BlackBerry Z3 smartphone's native resolution is 540 x 960 pixels and its screen density is 221 ppi (0.1149 mm dot pitch), but it simulates a 720 x 1280 pixels and 295 (0.0860 mm dot pitch) ppi display, so apps should target those higher values.
Tips for a square screen
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I recently have gotten into a new genre of music...pretty different from my usual hardstyle/dupstep/electro/hiphop stuff... Could someone please describe the genre/type of these songs, and recommend any similar songs to these? Thank you so much! Nirvana - Smells like Team Spirit Blue Oyster Cult- Godzilla Red House GLory - Fire up Also, does anyone know similar songs to these? (another diff genre sort of..) Celldweller-Eon Nachtmahr - Tanzdiktator PS Yes I am aware that I sound stupid by asking the genres of these songs...I've just never really looked into this type of music/never really payed attention to it! |
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You have 3 different genres up there. Grunge Rock, Alternative Rock and Psychedelic Rock. You could probably group them all under Alternative Rock and start there. Check out Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Muse, White Stripes... I could go on for an hour because you left a very broad window.
Sorry no help with the second set, no knowledge there. You don't sound stupid by asking for help to broaden your music collection... Stupid would be listening to one tiny genre and ignoring the rest of the music world! |
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im liking the new chevelle ablum,
Chevelle - Face To The Floor - YouTube gotta throw in some tool Tool - Schism - YouTube some canadian content, matt good, he does some folk rock to, lots of albums with some different sounds. Matthew Good - Weapon - YouTube |
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@hobomaster all of those were amazing haha...if you would like to recommend some more please feel free to I'm really liking the deftones one and the bush one haha |
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Just cause I think some of the more off the wall stuff is better: And my favorite band picture of all time, just for the deftones love... |
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HA I love the picture. Thanks, I've downloaded those too now! (: I think I may have found a new favorite band.. |
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sooo many options, but i have one question. How are you only now just hearing of Nirvana? or did i read it wrong?
You may also like stereophonics, the black keys, better than ezra, DMB, Ben folds five, Ben harper, the vines and don't forget the chill peps!! etc etc Some of that is off the genre you had listed, but hey your expanding right?
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It looks like the flymentor gyro also sucks on the 250 just like the other similar size piezo gyros. Well, I finally took off that gyro and put my assan gryro back on there. I'll be testing it without that gyro and let you know how it goes. I looked at the videos and if it works without it then I'll be fine with that. I tried the mix to use a separate switch but it just didn't work on the stock 9x as the choices are limited, but then again I'm not even sure how to get those to work. I also used the aux channel, but still didn't get anywhere with those. So I'll keep it simple and see what happens. Just waiting for the spare parts as the main shaft I took off the kit I had just happened to also be bent out of shape which sucks so that's also giving grief. I'll throw that away once I get the spares.
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Yes, me too. I'll keep that in mind, but so far at least for my learning they have been working just fine. I'm actually really liking them now that I've been playing more and more with the settings as it's become a bit easier for me to set them up. As I get better I'll probably look into other gyros, but I just don't need that much right now. In any case I need to sell a few things off since I just don't need more than the 2 250 kits I have, and a few other things for now.
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The house itself is an historic New England gem - the setting is gorgeous as you drive up the driveway. As soon as we met Brenda and Kevin we felt very comfortable - they are great innkeepers - very cordial and warm. Our bedchamber was very comfortable and the breakfast was delicious. The Inn is in the most beautiful corner of CT. We just had a wonderful time and looking forward to another stay. We can just imagine sitting in one of the common rooms reading abook, sipping some wine, while the fireplace crackles, and the snow is falling outside.
4,4 sur juillet 12, 2012
Brenda was a wonderful host and the food was delicious. She made great restaurant suggestions. We enjoyed our stay in CT.
4,2 sur juin 18, 2012
We spent one night here, and found it very enjoyable. Hosts were knowledgeable about the area, and gave great dinner recommendations. Common space was great for reading and relaxing, and rooms were well outfitted and comfortable. House is old, but has been well renovated and feels completely up to date, while retaining the character and charm of an historic home. Breakfast of French toast was delicious, and accommodations for vegetarian option was appreciated.
4,8 sur juin 05, 2012
The owners were delightful and the accommodations were great !
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My boyfriend is a history nerd, and especially loves Colonial American History. For his birthday, I decided to make a weekend out of this interest. So we stayed at Taylor's Corner, and visited Old Sturbridge Village just a short drive away. It was absolutely charming, and exactly what I wanted it to be like- romantic and quiet! Our hosts Brenda and Kevin made us delicious breakfasts, and even met our vegetarian diet demands. So Peaceful!
4,6 sur octobre 18, 2010
Quiet relaxing inn. Great breakfasts. Brenda went out of her way to make everyone comfortable and provided excellent information of local attractions, hikes, etc. Even went so far as to dvr yoga shows so Sue could get in her exercise when she had the time. Definitely a B & B where we will go back to. Thanks Brenda and Kevin.
5 sur septembre 25, 2010
This was our second stay at Taylor's Corner. Our first stay was only overnight but this time we stayed for a week and except for one night had the place entirely to ourselves. The entire house is distinctly colonial. We stayed in the Blue Room, very spacious and homey including a fireplace that we unfortunately did not use. I would have liked a tub but the shower was fine. I was also hoping for a rocking chair but the blue room has an additional single bed. Our queen bed was high off the floor and incredibly comfortable. The dining room was very comfortable and inviting. A side screen door provides direct access to the vast back yard where Adirondack chairs invite you to sit, read and relax. So bring a good book (or electronic device). Our hostess, Brenda, attends culinary school and puts it to wonderful use cooking gourmet country breakfasts: waffles, egg caseroles, blueberry pancakes, home made bread (made at school). We couldn't wait to see what treats she brought home from school: cookies, layer cake, jelly roll, not to mention the truffles that greeted us when we arrived. We walked around the corner to Taylor Brook Winery. We drove scenic route 169, toured Roseland Cottage and had tea at Mrs Bridges Tea Room. We did get to have one wonderful evening with both Brenda and her husband Kevin. We shared conversation, laughs and wine. They are young, ambitious, hard working and very involved in their community. They both appear to truly love what they're doing and take pleasure in their guests. We had a magical, romantic, relaxing vacation and will miss Taylor's Corner, but I took lots of pictures and it will be in our hearts and in our memory. To Brenda & Kevin all our very best wishes for health, happiness and continued success at Taylor's Corner and all your future plans & ventures. Ann & Art Searle
4,4 sur septembre 09, 2010
My stay here was a wonderful experience. Brenda, the innkeeper, was there to greet me and give me a tour of her home -- it was lovely, with many beautiful antiques in every room. I had the Blue Room, and the bed as so comfortable, I slept for 10 hours staight, which was a bonus! The B&B is surrounded by a beautiful garden, and the chairs out under the tree were so inviting, if I'd had more time I would have liked to spend some time reading out there. The evening I arrived, she had cookies and fruit set out in the dining room in case people were hungry, and the home-cooked breakfast the next morning was a perfect start to the day.
5 sur juin 12, 2010
We have been to Taylor's Corner three times and have booked our fouth weekend already. The rooms are comfortable, clean, and the working fireplaces add tremendous ambiance. Brenda and Kevin are welcoming and accommodating. Come for the special weekend packages - Brenda really out does herself!
4,0 sur juin 06, 2010
This is a lovely spot and Barbra made us feel very much at home. The back garden is gorgeous. The rooms are cute and quaint. One downside is that the B&B is on a bend in the road that's an attraction for motorcycles, so there can be a bit of road noise.


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