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By Stephen Hackett
Category Archives: Photography
Jobs’ Hero
Christopher Bonanos at The New York Times: In the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell. Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero, the person on whose career he explicitly modeled his [...]
Instagram 2.0.1 Hits App Store
The best iOS photo app just got better.
Instagram’s Backend
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger: With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller [...]
ISS Time-Lapse Video
We live on a wonderful speck:
Instagram v2.0 Launched
From the Instagram blog: Clarity and detail with every shot. By far, the most requested feature from both pros and amateurs alike, we’ve increased our photo size from 612×612 to 1936×1936 on the iPhone 4 (1536×1536 on the iPhone3GS). You’ll capture beautiful moments in all their detailed glory Also on tap: new filters, a new [...]
‘It Doesn’t Even Have a Handle’
I love my eMate and this photo.
Rare Cars in Pskov
The International fire truck may be my favorite.
One Last Time
[via NASA HQ Photo on Flickr]
Rolling Shutter and Guitar Strings
This video is cool, but how it works might be just as cool.
