ACP Now! » Tech Tips http://www.acpinfo.org/blog The blog for Atlanta Celebrates Photography, a citywide, monthlong festival of photography in Atlanta, every October. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:46:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 ACP Now, Now Updated for Tablets! http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2012/01/05/acp-now-now-updated-for-tablets/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2012/01/05/acp-now-now-updated-for-tablets/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:28:05 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=2910 If you have a brand new tablet for the holidays, ACP Now has an optimized presentation for the iPad. Have a look!

ACP Now, Updated for Tablets

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Subscribe to this .ics file with your favorite calendaring program to keep-up with ACP 2011 Programs.

This calendar covers ACP programming only; it does not cover events and exhibitions at participating ACP 2011 venues. Please see festivalguide.acpinfo.org for comprehensive listings of all events & exhibitions.

In iCal, click the Calendar pull-down menu to “Subscribe”, and then paste-in this url without a line-break:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ekailhk3hg3ehug7a1j3r4i7no@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

In Google Calendar, click the pull-down menu in the header of “Other Calendars” on the left-side of your screen, and pull it down to “Add by URL” and paste in this url without a line-break:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ekailhk3hg3ehug7a1j3r4i7no@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Or you can click the image above, and choose to open the .ics file with your favorite calendaring program!

]]> http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2011/09/21/ical-and-google-calendar-now-available-for-acp-2011/feed/ 0 Google Map for ACP 2011 http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2011/09/14/google-map-for-acp-2011/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2011/09/14/google-map-for-acp-2011/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:49:47 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=2729 We’ve just released a Google Map for ACP 2011 that’s viewable on your smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer! If you want a real treat, you can download this kml file and open it in Google Earth for 3D zoomable fun.

Each placemark reveals details about the events and exhibitions, and depending where you view the map, the ACP programs are marked with a different color placemark. (Yellow on Google Maps, blue, in Google Earth.)

ACP 2011 Google Map

(Thanks to our developers at tehcompany for the heavy lifting in turning our Festival Guide into longitude/latitude coordinates and xml!)

]]> http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2011/09/14/google-map-for-acp-2011/feed/ 0 ACP on Facebook (at a new location) http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2011/02/09/acp-on-facebook-at-a-new-location/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2011/02/09/acp-on-facebook-at-a-new-location/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:34:09 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=2298 A quick reminder that if you’re on Facebook, you can follow ACP on our Facebook page. We share lots of photo-relevant links there, from the local scene and beyond! Plus, every post to ACP Now! (including this one) is posted to our Facebook page. We’ve changed locations recently, so be sure to “like” our new page. Thanks!

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Instagram launched this fall, and as a photo-sharing experience is pretty unique. There’s no website to log into and upload your pictures — everything takes place on your phone; shooting, sharing, following, commenting. The New York Times has taken a look at the service a few times in past weeks; when they surpassed a million users and today’s article (featuring Atlantan Davin Bentti) here.

As a young product, there are a few places for improvement, specifically in following the photos of people you don’t know. You can find and follow your email contacts, your twitter or facebook friends, but you can’t follow people locally. It’s most likely a feature that’s around the corner, pun intended.

In the interest of providing a wider platform for those of you on instagram who are interested in pics of Atlanta from people you may not know, feel free to leave a comment here with your instagram username. Or tweet us @acptweets and we’ll update this post. And if you’d like to be removed from the list let us know. And if you’d like to discover more instagr.am pics from Atlanta on your own, try this tweet search.

Metro-area Atlantans on Instagram (no links – just plug these into the “search usernames and names” screen):
_raygun
cblack
desfolio
e08 <-- a zero + 8
ericajoy
ericbeatty
gt6288a
imryan1
jtrav
jelbaum
joelsilverman
keithweaver
kvoth
kwrather
ngnphoto
robertmatre
seanatlanta
sux
thepalifoxlegend
whileseated (author of this post)

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A quick survey.

]]> http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2010/08/18/would-you-like-to-access-the-acp-festival-guide-on-your-phone/feed/ 0 ACP Tweets, Now Available by Email http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2010/08/09/acp-tweets-now-available-by-email/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2010/08/09/acp-tweets-now-available-by-email/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:12:52 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=1898 As most of you know, you can receive updates to the ACP blog, and now, you can receive ACP tweets via email as well.

We tweet more often than we post to ACP Now!, but you’ll only receive one email a day if you subscribe. The email will aggregate each day’s tweets.

If you want to receive ACP Tweets directly via twitter, feel free!

]]> http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2010/08/09/acp-tweets-now-available-by-email/feed/ 0 Subscribe to ACP Now via Email! http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2010/04/22/subscribe-to-acp-now-via-email/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2010/04/22/subscribe-to-acp-now-via-email/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:39:03 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=1652 We’re trying something new with ACP Now! today. You’re now able to receive ACP Now! updates via email. Which means, each time there’s a new post on ACP Now!, you’ll be sent an email.

You can still subscribe to updates via RSS, and most posts result in tweets, too. Plus, if you’re on Facebook, our ACP fan page is updated with ACP Now! posts, too. A myriad of ways to stay connected to ACP!

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To subscribe, just click the “+ Google Calendar” button at the bottom right corner of the calendar.

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* Instant updates, while events are happening
* Trusted schedule changes, as they happen (they most certainly will)
* Every blog post on ACP Now! is tweeted (even this one!)
* Inside track on this year’s ACP Public Art Project “Gifted”, starting October 1st
* Quick links with news from around the photography world (and Atlanta!)
* You can have tweets sent directly to your cell-phone, as txt messages
* More current and comprehensive than Facebook!

]]> http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2009/09/30/why-you-should-follow-acp-on-twitter/feed/ 0 Old School Photo Calculations with New School iPhone http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2009/05/18/old-school-photo-calculations-with-new-school-iphone/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2009/05/18/old-school-photo-calculations-with-new-school-iphone/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 12:43:11 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=681 If you still shoot film, and occasionally need to calculate settings for your manual flash, all you have to do is reach for your iPhone. Reviewed in Macworld, PhotoCalc is an iPhone app that goes deep into f-stops and focal length the old fashioned way, including help with the Zone System. Yes, your iPhone can help you shoot like Ansel Adams.

“Photocalc is essentially a photographer’s toolbox, providing a group of widgets to do all the primary calculations for you as well as giving you additional information that could be crucial to getting just the right shot. After launching the app, choose your camera from PhotoCalc’s extensive list of options; these include not only every digital camera on the market (and many older models), but all film formats, including several cinema films.”

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]]> http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2009/04/28/photographers-and-twitter/feed/ 0 Revamping the Festival Guide Submission Process http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2009/03/16/revamping-the-festival-guide-submission-process/ http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/2009/03/16/revamping-the-festival-guide-submission-process/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:46:16 +0000 ACP http://www.acpinfo.org/blog/?p=479 We’re working hard at ACP to achieve our goals this year, and one of those goals is an overhaul of the process for submitting a listing for this year’s ACP Festival Guide. We’ll be working with a web developer to re-do the process from the ground up. If you’d like to help support ACP’s effort, you can donate directly to this project by clicking the image below. And thank you so much for contributing to ACP!

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