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Re: Omni frustrates me

ordinal — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:50:42 -0000

I noticed an awful lot of stuff about OmniPlan on their blog, yes, which I found a bit odd considering that I've never heard anyone even mention it anywhere else.

Re: Omni frustrates me

Pavig — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:13:28 -0000

Annoyingly the omni roadmap goes like this: Focus ipad. Outliner iPad. Plan iPad and Mac. iPad attachments and sync. Focus and outliner Mac.
This puts us 4 years into a development cycle to overhaul ui but only halfway to updating the ui on their most generally useful apps. It makes sense to refine the new ui in plan, their most complex app. But yes, the wait is getting very tedious.

Re: Omni frustrates me

Rhianon Jameson — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:18 -0000

On OF, my experience matches yours exactly. Expensive Mac client, lousy experience, blank lines added by mistake, etc. And I've never figured out how to view what I wanted without fiddling for a long time. Great (and affordable) iPad client, and pretty good iPhone client. The lack of development on the Mac is a little odd, as adding tasks and seeing the big picture are both a lot easier on a multi-window, multi-tasking system. One would think the company would want to have tight integration between the Mac and iOS versions; not just great syncing, which they have, but an easy way of manipulating data on the desktop in order to view it on the go on the iOS versions. Let's hope they haven't forgotten about the Mac.

Re: Ilfosol and shutter speed: a note on new interests

ordinal — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:34:42 -0000

I have recently ended up buying an Olympus XA2, which should be arriving tomorrow, and may get an XA as well. And maybe some other ones.

Re: Midori Traveler’s Notebook

Resor Shop — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:32:47 -0000

I really enjoy your writing style and voice. And TN betrayal and reconciliation was incredibly funny.

Re: Smena Cosmic Symbol

John_the_Monkey — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:26:34 -0000

"B" is usually "Bulb" - on English cameras at least! It's manual shutter release, for long exposures - the shutter will remain open as long as you hold the release. (In the very old days, this would be done by squeezing an air bulb, the pressure holding the shutter open until the bulb was released, hence the anachronistic terminology).

Another Russian camera to consider is the Kiev rangefinder (http://camerapedia.wikia.com/w... ) Russian knockoffs of '40s Contax cameras. They're rather fun, in an agricultural sort of way.

Re: Noteshelf 4 – stop me before I cliché

ordinal — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:59:06 -0000

If you change a notebook to "Read Only" in the settings (gear icon), you can then swipe between pages as with the user guide, it seems.

Re: Noteshelf 4 – stop me before I cliché

Marh — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:46:45 -0000

I like the app but I do have a real gripe....page turning! How frustrating is it, or am I doing something wrong....I would love to scroll through them just like I can when reading the user guide. I I am doing it wrong then can someine please tell me....

Re: SNYS v0.41

Jack — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:27:14 -0000

This doesn't work.

Re: Ilfosol and shutter speed: a note on new interests

John_the_Monkey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:35:23 -0000

If you're not wedded to the lo-fi aesthetic of the Holga, i can highly recommend fixed lens rangefinders as a LOT of fun. The compact ones from the '70s (Canon's QL-19 GIII is a real favourite of mine). Don't discount colour entirely too - there are films (like Superia, and the frankly bonkers Ferarria) that will make the most of the poor light. Olympus' Xa series are great little "take anywhere" cameras too.

FWIW, my stuff on film is here, slide, black and white and colour.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j... The black and white shots have the film stock, developer and developing method alongside, which might be useful.

Re: Ilfosol and shutter speed: a note on new interests

ordinal — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:23 -0000

I'm only really familiar with ferro-gallic ink, but I will look that one up. I do know that there are a number of alternative formulations for development using all sorts of ingredients, but I haven't used any (yet).

Re: Ilfosol and shutter speed: a note on new interests

ordinal — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:46:53 -0000

Re: Ilfosol and shutter speed: a note on new interests

Sven Pertelson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:44:08 -0000

You could combine the ink and photography passions - there was a technique for making prints called the ferro gallic process - using some of the same ingredients

Re: SNYS v0.41

Charles — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:26:08 -0000

I, too, am getting this error message. Any idea how to get around this? I'm using Lion 10.7.2 and Yojimbo 3.0.2.

Re: The Allan’s Journal – pocket notebook par excellence

ordinal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:33:20 -0000

Two other thin paper notebooks that I've used with some success are:

* the 70gsm Habana notebooks with plain paper, which are very tough and good quality, though they were the European version I think and now Habana paper had changed to be heavier, so it is important to check;
* the Travelers Notebook thin paper refill, which I think I've written about on this blog already. The issue there is of course that you have to get a Travelers Notebook as well. But the paper is excellent and very thin.
With a ballpoint your options do open up a it it - for instance, you can look at Moleskines, which have quite thin paper and are well constructed even if they don't like fountain pens much.

Re: The Allan’s Journal – pocket notebook par excellence

Tiffany — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:15:48 -0000

Thank you so much for your attention to detail in your notebook reviews. Not that I think you are a walking notebook advertisement, but have you any product suggestions for someone who prioritizes thin pages and would like to spend less than the $40 Allan's Journal costs? I write in pen (ballpoint, but the ink is liquid and flows lovely with little pressure) and prefer unlined pages.

Re: Two very dark Diamine inks – Eclipse and Denim

John_the_Monkey — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:58:21 -0000

Thanks for your reply - fwiw, my Pousserie De Lune feathers on everything but Rhodia so far. I do rather like the idea of Eclipse being a "look twice" purple though - Evergreen is my equivalent for green inks.

Re: SNYS v0.41

panamajack — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:26:26 -0000

Hi,

Immediately after launching snys I get an "Error: unable to open database" message. Any suggestions? Thanks for all your time and hard work!
Tom

OS X 10.7.2, Yojimbo 3.02

Re: SNYS v0.41

Jez Lerman — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:59:30 -0000

Using Leopard, keep getting error message unable to open database file. Also, noticed the path in the error message does not match the path to default YoJimbo library path :-(

Re: Two very dark Diamine inks – Eclipse and Denim

ordinal — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:10:25 -0000

It seems quite well balanced - it doesn't feather horribly on anything that I've tried, even with broad nibs, but it isn't dry. On the other hand, I find Poussiere de Lune quite well behaved too, so we may be using different paper.
As a note, after having used it for a while, it's even less purple than I'd thought. In good light you can see hints of purple - in poor or mediocre light it just looks black. I had trouble distinguishing it from black a lot of the time. It's purple in the same way as Noodlers Zhivago is green - i.e. you would not notice it casually. I find that quite a nice effect though.

Re: Two very dark Diamine inks – Eclipse and Denim

John_the_Monkey — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:38:13 -0000

I really like the look of Eclipse - any thoughts on its feathering on different paper?

I love Pousserie de Lune, but its tendency to go bonkers on all but the very finest paper drives me mad. I guess i should also ask whether I can justify Eclipse in addition to Imperial Purple, Pousserie de Lune & Amazing Amethyst, but that's a discussion for another time, perhaps :)

Re: SNYS v0.41

ordinal — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:05:23 -0000

That just means it was unable to contact the Simplenote server during a sync - sometimes connection errors do happen, and you can ignore it, unless it happens every time.

Re: SNYS v0.41

ordinal — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:04:19 -0000

It is sort of on the list of things to do, but I don't have any particular plans for actually doing it at the moment.

Re: SNYS v0.41

martin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:03:02 -0000

I get the message:

curl: (28) Connection time-out
Please help

Martin

Re: SNYS v0.41

Trevor Meier — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:26:44 -0000

Any thoughts or progress on adding tag syncing between Simplenote & Yojimbo?