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January 19, 2006

Konica Minolta to Quit Camera Business

The BBC is reporting today that Konica Minolta is to quit the camera business. This leaves me in the position I was before 2004: a man with a bunch of good quality Minolta-mount lenses without a digital body.

Next year it will be time again to change camera systems. But to what? Portions of the Nikon and Canon systems look really appealing. I love the focus adjustment capability on a lot of the Nikon lenses, but I appeciate the UI and body shape of the Canons. Choices choices...

What are your oppinions?

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May 5, 2005

Outport

I was faced with the problem of exporting my contacts from Outlook to vCard format for use with my iPod. The iPod gives you the rudimentary ability to browse vCards with it's thumbwheel. It's actually pretty slick.

The problem is that Outlook doesn't support exporting blocks of contacts as vCards. Stupid software. Luckily, somebody has written a freeware tool to do just this: enter Outport.

Created for the expressed purpose of encouraging people to move from Outlook to Ximian Evolution (now flying under the Novell charter), Outport actually just works for a variety of purposes.

It worked just perfectly for my iPod!

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