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I avoid Flash unless it’s really needed—and I wonder if these stats take into account the rise of iPhones that can’t view any flash and other devices that might have limited capabilities.
Adobe® Flash® Player is the world’s most pervasive software platform, used by over 2 million professionals and reaching 99.0% of Internet-enabled desktops in mature markets as well as a wide range of devices.
GRAPH: ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by version
Join me tomorrow for a reception from 2 pm to 5 pm at CordenPotts Gallery, 49 Geary Street Suite 211, San Francisco.
I have one piece in a Juried show of photographs…
If you can’t make it on Saturday, there will also be plenty of other opportunities to see the exhibit since it will run from this Tuesday, January 5, through Saturday, February 13. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11 am to 5:30 pm. We’re also open until 7:30 pm on the first Thursday of each month.
In case you’re wondering what an exhibit called SMaLL might be about, we’ll tell you what we told the photographers when we issued our call for submissions: That we were using the term ’small’ in its broadest sense and encouraged them to do the same. We then gave them a list of synonyms for ’small,’ which suggested numerous possible perspectives.
Those synonyms included compact; miniature; poky; cramped; petite; puny; stunted; minor; and unimportant. Some other synonyms were trivial; insignificant; meager; insufficient; ashamed; modest; unpretentious; humble; and, believe it or not, underwear (“smalls” in Britain).
Photographers whose work was selected for SMaLL, include Katie Baum, John Bergholm, Gary Cawood, Pui-Quan Cheng, Adrienne Defendi, Malcolm Easton, Jon J. Eilenberg, Kent Hasel, Kirsten Hoving, Ann Jastrab, Beth Kientzle, Eric Larson, Tootie Nienow, Heather Polley, Charles Reilly, Charles Rozier, Ari Salomon, Ron M. Saunders, Elizabeth Siegfried, Anselm Skogstad, Susan Lynn Smith, Michael Starkman and Andy Stewart.
Twitter gives you a fragmented experience of opinions, events, news, ideas and feedback largely because its structured to accommodate non-contextual usability: You can easily follow thousands of users and listen in and enter into conversations conducted among multiple users at any point. And this is usually the case.
via 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners and Businesses.
Interesting fact I came across while making our homemade new years card. The maximum thickness for the special, cheaper postcard rate is 0.016 inch (maximum size is 4.25in x 6in).
But the nice thick Enhanced Matte posterboard (24”x30” sheet) is 0.047 inches (1.2 millimeters) according to: http://pe.usps.com/text/qsg300/Q201.htm
I also see there are limits on stiffness so probably this material will not qualify for the postcard rate.
Examples of a nonmachinable letter include:
- It has an aspect ratio (length divided by height) of less than 1.3 or more than 2.5 (a square envelope has an aspect ratio of 1, making it nonmachinable).
- It is more than 4-1/4 inches high or more than 6 inches long and is less than 0.009 inch thick.
- It has clasps, strings, buttons, or similar closure devices.
- It is too rigid.
- It has a delivery address parallel to the shorter side of the mailpiece.
- It contains items such as pens, pencils, or keys that create an uneven thickness.
- Letters with nonpaper surfaces, other than envelope windows or attachments that are allowed under eligibility standards by class of mail.
via QSG 201 Commercial Letters and Postcards – Physical Standards for Commercial Letters and Postcards.
Documenting the Decade
We want to hear from you. Help us document the decade by picking five important moments from the last 10 years — possible subjects include news or political events, culture and entertainment, business, sports or technology. Send us photos that you have taken that help illustrate those moments, plus short personal essays that explain how they define your decade. Subjects might include signs of the recent recession in your community, an event such as the Sept. 11 attacks or the 2004 tsunami, yourself at the World Series or Olympic Games, or the impact of a recent technical invention on your life.
In honor of the Copenhagen conference, here’s a tidbit of green-tech news…
Maybe a energy storage breakthrough is around the corner:
Ordinary paper could one day be used as a lightweight battery to power the devices that are now enabling the printed word to be eclipsed by e-mail, e-books and online news.
The same feature that helps ink adhere to paper allows it to hold on to … single-walled carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire films. Earlier research found that silicon nanowires could be used to make batteries 10 times as powerful as lithium-ion batteries now used to power devices such as laplop computers.
via Scientists say paper battery could be in the works – Yahoo! News.
Came across this great auction of emerging photographers. A well-built WordPress-based site, I might add. This is a benefit for a Canadian-based, photo-oriented non profit called The Magenta Foundation. You can also check out their upcoming call for entries: All photographers in Canada, the UK and the US 34 years of age and under may submit: submission requirements and instructions.
Here’s my favorite piece:
Caleb Charland
Bouncing Penlight, 2008
from the series Demonstrations
My process and choice of subject matter stems from growing up in a do-it-yourself household where I learned to appreciate the power that tools and materials hold
Minneapolis Photo Center: Call for Entries
LANDSCAPES • UNFEIGNED OR ILLUSORY
Submission Deadline: March 8, 2010
A landscape, as defined by this Call for Entry, can be representational or nonrepresentational, urban, suburban or rural.
Begin Accepting Entries: 15 January 2010
Deadline for Entry: 8 March 2010
Results Announced: 18 March 2010
On Exhibit: 23 April -13 June 2010 at the Mpls Photo Center
Opening Reception: 23 April 2010
Exhibit Juror: Todd Brandow
Cost for Entry: $35 for the first 5 images submitted; $10 for each additional image
via Mpls Photo Center : MPC Call for Entries.