Author Archives: Park Seward

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing

You are working on a layout and the image doesn’t fit. You can’t crop it unless you lose important parts and you can’t stretch or compress the axis because it would look unnatural. Or you need to enlarge without softening. … more »

The Coming February 17, 2009 Disaster

As I am sure you know, ALL analog television broadcasting will cease on February 17, 2009. If you get your TV via cable or satellite, you may not even notice a change. However, that second TV in the back room … more »

How Much Resolution Do You Need?

We are all excited about video camera that promise four thousand pixel resolution. But how many do we really need??? The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers did a study many years ago to determine how much resolution reached … more »

What is the Best CD-R?

I transfer old reel-to-reel audio tapes for clients to digital. Finding the “best” CD-R medium has been difficult. It needs to last 100 years and have a low bit error rate. Who make the best? First, any CD-R will last … more »

To ZFS or not to ZFS?

As reported in InformationWeek, it seems like Sun may have jumped the gun about Apple including the Zettabyte File System in the next release of OS X, Lepoard. “An Apple official on Monday said Sun Microsystems’ open-source file system would … more »