Author: Chris

Convergence

I’ve moved all my posts from ckoerner.wordpress.com to here at www.clkoerner.com.  I figure it was time to update my personal website, so why not combine it with my blog.  Drop me a line if you find something that isn’t working.

Keeping up

I hope I can always be on top of tech trends. I hope that when I’m my father’s age, and my daughter is closer to my current age, I can still talk about technology in relevant terms. Sure I may ramble on about the days past, but I’d like to think that I’d still be knowledge about current technology. It’s like some people with music, or fashion, or sports. I enjoy knowing what I know. That’s may sound kinda obessive, but it’s what I do for a living, and a hobby. I’m checking my RSS reader every half an hour, looking on Fark and Digg for links I may have missed. It’s like crack. I think I’m addicted to information! I watch TV or a DVD and afterwards (or sometimes during) I’ll hop on Wikipedia and dig up info about the actors, story, etc. CRAZINESS! Dave Pell seems to summarize part of what I feel about the internet and the instant gratification it gives us.

http://davenetics.com/2006/01/referrers/

We’re Home!

We’re home now, Jackie, Kari and I. It was an interesting experiance, much different that I had anticipated. Mom and baby are doing well. As I type this they are both sleeping. Awwww…
Here’s some links to pictures:

Photocast of pictures (this will continue to be updated)

And if that doesn’t work, I’ve created a static page of images on Flickr

And from the Hospital’s WebNursery

And more from the Hospital’s WebNursery

Late Night with iLife

I’m up playing with iLife 06. Here’s my mini-review.

First, I like the fact that all the apps are following iTunes in their ‘edgeless’ appearance. Second, it’s interesting that a few of the apps are starting to look like other Apple Apps. Once example would be iWeb. It looks kinda like Pages. At first glance you could almost mistake iWeb for Pages. Weird. Third, the media viewer seems more present in this release and it’s an interesting concept to access you movies, photos, and music that you have. This cross pollination will take some time to get use to. Not that I’m complaining, I like the idea of easily sharing assets between programs.

iPhoto
I totally dig iPhoto, the Photocasts (rss feeds) look decent in NetNewsWire, and I like how they kept the “published” icon consistent across ical and iphoto. It IS much snappier and I like the full-screen editing. My only complaint is when entering and leaving full-screen editing I was expecting a nice fade in and out, perhaps with a slide of the menus. What I received was a quick snap in and out. Meh.

iMovie/iDVD
I looked at this briefly. I like the fact that there is a category of Video FX that allows you to use compositions from Quartz Composer. This opens up the possibility of someone creating some spectacular effect ‘plugins’ I also like the new iDVD themes; pretty always wins a point in my book.

Garageband
I haven’t messed with any of the podcasting stuff in Garageband. But I will soon.

iWeb
I created a quick page (http://web.mac.com/ckoerner/iWeb/) in iWeb. It renders nicely in Safari, Firefox, and yes even IE for the Mac. I can’t see anyone who already has a blog (such as WordPress) wanting to use the blogging feature, it seems kinda clunky compared to the content management systems I’ve used in the past.

iTunes
It’s been around for awhile, and I’m not sure if it’s even technically part of iLife anymore. But i like it!