Create a dynamic family photo screen saver

You might have heard about a product called Ceiva. Ceiva is a picture frame that plugs into a phone line. Each night it automatically downloads digital photos to the picture frame. It’s a great way to share photos with family members but it costs money. Ceiva charges you for the frame and you need to [...]

Flickr’s new Geotagging Service

I’m loving Flickr’s new geotagging service. And apparently a lot of other people love it too. According to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, 1.2 million photos were geotagged in the first 24 hours. Click here to see my geotagged photos. Click on the pink dots to see the photos.

More fun with Zooomr portals – tour of SF

First, click here or click on the photo shown below. This will take you to Zooomr. Then place your mouse over the photo to find the portals. They appear as rectangular outlines overlaid on the photo. It will take a few seconds for the portal to appear as an image within [...]

Trying out Zooomr Portals

Zooomr has a cool new feature called portals. Click on the photo below and then hover your mouse over the photo and click on the portal to zoom in on the statue or look to the left.

Legion of Honor Hosted on Zooomr

Zooomr 2.0 has launched

After a rough week for the upstart photo sharing site (they cancelled their re-launch last Friday due to a denial-of-service attack), Zooomr 2.0 is now available. I haven’t spent a lot of time on their yet but so far I’m impressed. The geotagging function is great. On the photo shown below you can see a [...]

Trying out Zooomr

I’m trying out Zooomr. They are offering free pro accounts to bloggers. This shot is from last Sunday at the Fillmore Jazz Festival.

sax                                          Hosted on Zooomr

Snake on a Blog!

Spotted yesterday while walking the dog at Bernal Hill. Don’t worry it didn’t have a rattle.

Summer in SF

It’s been brutally foggy in my neighborhood in San Francisco. It’s a city of micro-climates. It can be 52 degrees and foggy where I live (an area called Miraloma Park) and 15 degrees warmer just a couple of miles away.

Napa Valley

Last month in Napa Valley.

Rephotographing my neighborhood

Rephotographing my neighborhood in San Francisco. The photo on the left is from today. The one on the right is from 1953. That’s Twin Peaks in the background. The neighborhood in the foreground is called Miraloma Park. Best viewed at full size.