Vacuming, dusting, laundary, food preperation… Well that is only a couple of things that needs to be done until tomorrow. You know June 13th, tomorrow, guests… Yeah it’s my birthday coming up!

ICARUS
I’ve been preparing for a new project called “ICARUS” for the past months. I’m not going to reveal any more information about that topic right now, but all I can say is ICARUS will get the “Green Light” soon.

Worldwide Photo Walk 2010
If you haven’t heard already I’ll tell you now Worldwide Photo Walk registration is OPEN!. I encourage everybody who are photographically interested to join this awesome event that will be placed around the world in different cities. To read more about this awesome event and register aswell head over to Worldwide Photo Walk 2010′s website here.

Finally my portfolio is up, even if it’s just a few pictures.
More images will be added now and then (due to lack of spare time which I need to be able to process the images. Some of the images are taken with old fashion film and needs some processing time in Photoshop. Removing dust, scratches etc).

The first time I laid my hands on Photoshop was a long time ago. If I remember correctly it was Photoshop v6.0 and that is a long time ago I can guarantee that my friends.

Adobe and NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) did a one of a kind “Photoshop 20th Anniversary” Event at San Fransisco together with Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski, Dave Cross, RC Concepcion, Matt Corey, Julieanne Kost (from Adobe), Terry White and many more attended the event and did various presentations.
You can see some pictures from Scott Kelbys site. Adobe and NAPP did broadcast the entire event LIVE, but for those who didn’t make it to San Fransisco or attended the LIVE broadcast can see the entire event at the Photoshop 20th Anniversary site.

Before this post is finished I want to share some Photoshop start up screens to all my readers.
Cheers!

Backyard Babies music video shot with Nikon D3s
Together with Nikon Scandinavia and the photographer from Sports Illustrated Bill Frakes and eleven Nikon D3s houses (with lenses ofcourse ) they created Backyard Babies new music video.
The video was shot in Åbo and Helsingfors in Finland during the bands 20th year anniversary.
The DSLR:s have come quite in the world of technology and with this new video features they will set a new milestone for video recording.

Some info about the band: Backyard Babies is a Scandinavian hard rock band which is very popular here in Sweden and they popularity is expanding to the UK:s streets and cities.

New firmware update for the Nikon D3s
Nikon have released a new firmware update for the Nikon D3s (version 1.01).
Six things have been approved and one of them is a error with the recording feature.

You can download the new updates here:

Nikon D3s firmware (version 1.01) update for Windows
Nikon D3s firmware (version 1.01) update for Mac

Note: The links are to the Nikon Europe site!

PhotoPlus Magazine – Canon EOS 550D/Rebel T2i
PhotoPlus Magazine have been looking more closely at the Canon EOS 550D/Rebel T2i. To share their findings and thoughts about this new house they’ve been kindly enough to share a video there Canon’s David Perry are talking about the new body desing and improvements.

Aperature 3 – Face recognition
Apple have reloaded their guns with a new version of Aperature 3. In the new version of Aperature you can catogorise your photos via the facerecognition software feature. Another thing that Apple have included is categorising by places via the Geo tagging feature, ofcouse you need to have a camera with build-in GPS or a GPS accessory to get the cordinates and the rest of the information that the GEO tagging feature requires.
There is 15 new brushes to apply various filter effects to your photos and with the new adjustmentfilters you can very easely change a photo to black and white, sepiatone, toycamera effect (you get the idea).

Bill Frakes from Sports Illustrated that I mentioned before have tested Aperature 3 with a database of over 1,5 milion pictures. Bill said that the new version works like a charm and with a single click you can zoom upp to a thousand percent to see your pictures in detail.

All in all Aperature 3 will give you over 200 new functions that you can play with.

Woooooow, Hold Your Horses mate! because I’ve got a announcement for you or I would rather say Wacom got a announcement for you.

Wacom have a great collection of professional tablets, the Intuos 4 series, Bamboo series and the Cintiq series.
Recently Wacom announced a new tablet to their Intuos 4 line-up. It’s their new Intuos 4 Wireless (yup you heard right, freaking wireless!). Up to 10 meters or 33 feet, Mac and PC compatible, No cords (of course it’s wireless otherwise it wouldn’t be called a wireless tablet ).

So what is the price you may ask?… Well only if you give me 100 bucks first… you know I’m kidding right? , I’ll cut to the chase it’s 399$.

Specs:

Epson videos
Epson Professional Imaging have released a couple of videos from some cool photographers like Steve McCurry, Greg Gorman, Jay Maisel and others. They talk about the Epson 900 series printers and how it has helped them as photographers.
If you have some spear time check it out, here’s the link.

Nikon D700x/D700s/D800/D900 which one will it be?
I’ve been following nikonrumors.com, dpreview.com and other sites aswell for the past 1,5 years. Sucking as much information I can find about a D700 replacement.
There are no official statement from Nikon if we will ever see a replacement for the D700 system, a funny fact though is that the D[number] keeps rising. From the past rumors D700x/s to a D900, in this phase we will soon see a D999999 (on the rumorsites anyway)

I’ve experienced that my site have very slow loading times, so I asked some of my friends to confirm that. They have the same slow loading time aswell. Curious as I am I dida trace route yesterday to check the bounces between the servers and looked at the latency.
As soon as I hit the Godaddy servers the latency jump up a bit from 7-23ms to ~200ms.
I mailed Godaddy customer support and they didn’t have the same problem, my guess is that the peering between Sweden/Europe and US isn’t the best. Godaddy mentioned that they have a new European hosting facility, so I probably move the entire site over there and hopefully it will load faster.

I think I’ll begin with the bad news first.
The bad news is that one of my computers one week ago started to get some strage artifacts during the boot up sequense and after the boot up aswell.
If you don’t know what artifacts is I’ll try to explane it fast and short.
Artifacts is a visual graphical error (for example colored dots and lines) which can be generated from a malfunction from the processor (GPU), memory chip, cables. In my case I think the card have been overheating till the point some part on the card (probably the GPU) just gave up.
Well the graphics card isn’t hard to replace but it’s sad both for me and the wallet, especially the wallet…

The story doesn’t stop here.
Just for two days ago the computer totaly blacked out in front of me and gave me a blackscreen. The first thought that came in my mind was…”Ok, this isn’t so good at all”, to get a blackscreen isn’t fun, this means that I had to manually do a error check for each and every component and that takes time I promise you!
After a couple of hours of testing and changing components the computer still didn’t started up as it should. The remaining components was the motherboard and processor (CPU), the only components I couldn’t test due to lack of spare parts.
I have to options, cross my fingers and hope it’s the motherboard (s775) that is the problem and buy a new one… or buy a new motherboard (with s1366), new processor and memory which will be more expensive.

To the good news:

To be well prepared for the future of this personal portfolio/blog site I’m going to put up a newsletter subscription function (using the Mee News Plugin Mailpress plugin) there I’ll post what have happed the past week(s) or if I want to post something important.

UPDATE:
I decided to just buy the motherboard and cross my fingers that it’s just the motherboard itself that made the black screen.

Tim- Ehmm Mr JP

Mr JP – Yes Tim

Tim – Did you know that you can browse with my iPhone and iPod Touch via the buildin Safari web browser and access your blog with out any problems?

Mr JP – Tim I know, but what I’ve done is to make it easier for the visiter to browse through the different posts/comments/pages in a much more compact way without zooming in and out everytime…

Tim – But Mr JP what if I like to zoom in and out is there a way to look at the blog in it’s default style?

Mr JP – Yes Tim there is a way to do that. What you need to do is to scroll down to the bottom and move the slider “Mobile view” from on to off.

Tim – Ooo gee thank you Mr JP.

Mr JP – No problem Tim.

For the rest of you who have a question or two don’t hesitate to send me a message – Just go to the contacts page and write down what you want to ask.
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Yep finally I have changed to a new host due to some problems with settings that couldn’t be change on the old host.

Have aswell a new design to the page which I’m quite happy with.