Category Archives: Software

Programs that run on computers. Not marshmellows or pillows.

Fotopedia – the rating system (1/2)

Posted on 17-Sep-10 by pvdhamer

Last modification: 2-Oct-10 Fotopedia‘s system for ranking the quality and suitability of photos is is based on counting votes. This results in cumulative ratings like +2 (few people have seen the image, or maybe people don’t like it) , +22 … Continue reading →

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Fotopedia

Posted on 29-Aug-10 by pvdhamer

Fotopedia is a photography-centric encyclopedia founded in 2009. It aims to provide a dynamically growing collection of high-quality photos on topics of general interest. Some examples of topics covered by Fotopedia: Barcelona (travel) FC Barcelona (sports, fans) Antoni Gaudí (Barcelona … Continue reading →

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Lightroom 3 review

Posted on 12-Jun-10 by pvdhamer

Adobe released Lightroom 3.0 on June 8th, after eight months of public beta testing. I simply kept using LR 2.7 during the beta testing period as the beta version didn’t allow you to easily import LR 2.x databases, and I … Continue reading →

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After the Deadline spell checker

Posted on 5-Jun-10 by pvdhamer

I just installed “After the Deadline” on this blog. AtD is a  plug-in for WordPress, Firefox and certain other platforms. It detects three different types of errors – each marked in its own color: spelling checking makes sure I don’t … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3 Beta

Posted on 20-Apr-10 by pvdhamer

On April 20th I switched to WordPress 3.0b1 (actually the latest “nightly build”) after testing the original 3.0b1 offline. I subsequently started manually following “nightly builds” which got me to WordPress 3.0b2. It all works fine – even with the patched … Continue reading →

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