Webinar this Friday May 8
Here is a link to the notes for the presentation. Use your shelter-in-place time to work on your photo collection – shore up your storage and backups, organize your photos,
May 5, 2020
Chronosync Backup Tip: Chronoagent fixes reliability problems
I’ve been using ChronoSync for many years, and depend on it to manage backup from several machines to a central file server. It has worked quite reliably over the years,
April 27, 2020
Digital Media Objects – A definition
I use the term “object” a lot in The DAM Book 3.0 when I’m referring to digital media. It’s a pretty common word to hear in the software development, museum
April 20, 2020
Time to buy Hard Drives
The COVID-19 pandemic is certain to disrupt global supply chains. There are some things which are easy to get now, but are likely to be hard to get in the
April 10, 2020
Offer Extended! 50% off Shelter-in-place sale
PLEASE NOTE: To guaranteed you get the discount, please go to DAMUSEFUL.COM instead of using the BUY buttons on this site! Well, it looks like it’s probably going to be
March 28, 2020
Back in the Product Saddle Again
Six years ago, I was hired by PhotoShelter to create “PhotoShelter for companies.” Five months later, we launched Libris, which has now overtaken the photographer-oriented part of the company in
March 26, 2020
Quick advice on storage and backup
Editor’s Note: Since I’ve turned Facebook comments off, I’m experimenting with turning them on directly in the blog. Feel free to ask any questions you may have about this subject
March 2, 2020
Petapixel Article on Megapixels and Camera Scanning
I wrote an article that has just been published in Petapixel. In the article, I offer some insight on megapixels and camera scanning, particularly for 35mm film originals. We are
February 22, 2020
Looking for iView Replacements?
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking to the National Geographic photographers group, The Photo Society. The topic of my talk was the death of iView (aka Expression Media,
January 14, 2020
Vote for our 2020 SXSW proposal!
Anna Dickson and I have, once again, made a proposal for SXSW. This time it’s called the Machine Learning Bake-off. In this presentation we’ll do some real-world comparisons of Machine
August 12, 2019