davelog Wherein, I write.

new toys

Yesterday I recieved a package in the mail with the infamous little arrow on the side that can only come from amazon.com. I ordered my very own Nikon SB 600 which I have barely had time to open.

Okay, so I opened it when I got home after midnight last night, knowing full well that I had work at 8am this morning. A few dozen or so shots later, I figured out how to use Nikon’s TTL metering, set up the SB 600 as a remote slave flash (which is SO cool!), as well as press just about every other button on the back of the unit. I can’t wait to actually set up some decent studio shots and post them!

On the Apple side of things, I’m pretty disappointed at their “special event” today. I mean, yeah, cool new nano-pods in pretty colors, brighter screens on the video-pods, and eager anticipation for the set-top unit coming in January, but… I guess I was expecting more. I was really hoping for some new revolutionary iPod like everyone else in the applesphere (damn these words!), or at lease the core 2 duo macbook pros. Actually, no, I’m glad I still have the fastest laptop on the Apple lineup :) And honestly, who wasn’t expecting a video store? Bah. $9.99 my ass.

I’m really stoked about iTunes 7 automatically downloading album art and integrating coverflow as well (although it still doesn’t do fullscreen. hm.) But it’s … oh, I don’t know what I was expecting, but somthing more I guess.

Back to work.


4 Comments

oh yeah, and hooray for continuous mp3 playback… finally (!)

Posted by dave on 12 September 2006 @ 11pm

I just like having my artwork there finally. I tried going through and doing it manually, then I realized I had better stuff to do and quit.

Posted by James on 13 September 2006 @ 2pm

try GimmeSomeTunes… that’s what I used before; it gets the images from amazon :)

Posted by dave on 13 September 2006 @ 2pm

But I have itunes 7 now

Posted by James on 13 September 2006 @ 4pm