Peter Beens
Do you ever have the need to schedule a threaded tweet?
It’s something you can’t do on Twitter, so I was relieved to find this temporary offer from OneUp for a free, lifetime account to their service which allows me to do exactly that. Continue reading “Shout Out to OneUp Twitter App”
I always have the annual Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day marked in my calendar, but sadly often miss it due to extenuating circumstances.
But not this year…
I started my journey in Port Robinson where I saw this abandoned bridge. I had the camera, a Nikon D750, mounted on a monopod which helped stabilize the 1.5 second exposure. I submitted this image to the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day exhibit, even though I took some others that I also liked.
Moving to a path in the woods next to the bridge, I then took this abstract image of some small trees and bushes. It didn’t start out to be abstract, but a gust of wind hit me just as I was taking the 2 second exposure which resulted in the motion blur. Normally I would have deleted the image but in this case it worked!
Next I set out along some back roads looking for suitable scenes. This one suited me fine:
As well as this one:
Overall, I think it was a successful day. In past years I’ve gone out and maybe only had one photo I was willing to share. It’s a very hit-and-miss process because you really don’t know how they will look until you get back to your computer to look at them enlarged.
In my case though, the process is much easier than many other photographers because I’m using a digital camera with a pinhole adapter. Many other photographers use homemade cameras with film that of course makes the process much more complicated.
Here is the pinhole adapter that I used. As you can see, the adapter replaces the lens so the pictures are taken without a lens!
If you’d like to see other photos that were submitted by Canadian photographers, visit here.
Welcome to the 4th in my series of “snippets” blog posts. See here for previous ones.
Are you using GitHub and on a Mac? Here’s an excellent .gitignore file you can use that will keep all those pesky ._ files out of your repository:
https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/macOS.gitignore
Setting up to record system audio using Camtasia on a Mac M1 computer is a bit of a nuisance. See here for the instructions:
https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055945312
My tweet:
https://twitter.com/pbeens/status/1374460114241921028
There were lots of responses! You can check them out here.
I recently bought a new Mac but my Mac keyboard shortcut skills are quite rusty. This page has helped me immensely to get back in the groove.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
It’s pretty sad that Canada’s per-capita rate of Covid is higher than the US. Please, stay home everyone, and get vaccinated as soon as you’re eligible.
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Here is a graph showing the mileage I got with my 2011 DL650 V-Strom.
It’s interesting to see that my mileage was going up as the bike got older!
This is a quick test to see if I can publish a podcast on WordPress and have the file hosted on YouTube.
The feed for the podcasts I post here should be https://www.beens.ca/category/podcast/feed/.
This is a quick test to see if I can publish a podcast on WordPress and have the file hosted on Google Drive.
Be sure the file is shared publicly and use the embed code to embed the player here.
The feed for the podcasts I post here should be https://www.beens.ca/category/podcast/feed/.
Update: The widget embed code must trip up the podcast programs because the programs cannot seem to find a podcast on this page. The good news though is that the test with the file hosted on GitHib worked perfectly.
This is a quick test to see if I can publish a podcast on WordPress and have the file hosted on GitHub.
Be sure the use the “raw” link when inserting the URL. WordPress will insert a player automatically.
The feed for the podcasts I post here should be https://www.beens.ca/category/podcast/feed/.
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This is a recent email I shared with the Communications Technology email list. You may be interested in this if you or your students do website development.
I found a great webpage that will show you what your website looks like on multiple devices at once. It’s great! It would be very useful to make sure your website will look good on mobile devices or tablets.
https://techsini.com/multi-mockup/index.php
Here’s an example when previewing my website:
The only hiccup I found when I was looking at my sites, I had to be sure to use https:// instead of http://.