This time the family and co-workers, Mike and Jared, went back to the same trail and went beyond the of last week’s midpoint to see Hoover Dam and the Bypass Project.

The extra distance to the parking garage from last weeks midpoint was more challenging as there it was riddled with hilly terrain. Translation: I almost died trying to tow Edison on the way back. It was a good challenge.

And on the way back, we got a treat as we saw close to 10 Bighorn Sheep, Nevada’s official state animal, traversing across our trail along the steep mountainside. All in all, it was a great ride and this time, fully explored.

My brother, Brenton Ho, has his first photography spread in March 2009 issue of Modified Mag for his coverage of the 2008 Red Bull Drifting World Championship. If you get a chance to check it out, his photos are the ones which capture all the drift action, or the equivalent of about half the feature. Congrats man!

T-Mobile® cameo™ frame
The T-Mobile cameo frame is an exciting new way to share photos with family and friends. With the T-Mobile cameo, you can:

-Take photos using your picture message-capable camera phone and send them to your frame’s phone number. They’ll show up right on the frame!
-Receive picture messages from any capable phone, on any carrier.
-Send photos to your frame via e-mail. Just e-mail them to your frame’s phone number @tmomail.net (for example, 2062221111@tmomail.net).
-Transfer photos from the memory card in your phone or camera to your frame (card and adapter not included).
-Transfer photos from your computer to your frame.

Hello! For anyone who has a kid(s) whose grandparents or even great-grandparents live elsewhere, I believe this would be an ideal gift: The gift of updated and current digital photos that automatically show up in a digital photo frame. Supposedly, the device would cost $99.99 up front plus $9.99 per month for the connected services. Yikes -that’s $120/yr cost of connectivity. With flash memory so cheap (I mean affordable) now, I could send a new filled 2GB SD card every other month, including postage and still have money to spare compared to that subscription price. I believe they should have subsidized the cost of data access by:

• maybe inserting an ad every 50 photos in a slideshow
• by building a remote web management tool that would be ad-driven or possibly integrated with photo partners for ordering print products (aka Walgreens, flickr, etc)
• something similar to what the Kindle has accomplished with Sprint

This doesn’t look that desirable a deal, but at least it is a step in the right direction. Let’s get conected!

At work trying to manage my short-term and long term digital media needs. I’m jone’sing for a big network attached storage (NAS) device to store all of my precious data, but really just need more compact flash (CF) for my Nikon D70 to take more raw photos of my baby at this point in time. I’ve been shopping around for both but always get confused with CF speeds as they don’t always market their read/write speeds in a uniform manner. Some give you how fast in times (ie. 133x or 300x) while others tell you in mb/s. There is a way to deciper from one to the other. The magic multiplier is 6.66… So if I have the 30mb/s, I’ll just multiply it by 6.66 and get 200x. Here is a simple chart:

45 mb/s = 300x
40 mb/s = 266x
30 mb/s = 200x
20 mb/s = 133x
12 mb/s = 80x

The key here is when you’re shooting RAW or *.NEF (for Nikon users) photos, their sizes are big. My camera produces RAW photos that are around 5mb on average. Thus, if the camera writes faster to the CF card, I can shoot more quickly than with a slower CF; catch more of those special moments. Not to mention that these newer dSLRs shoot in rapid-fire bursts that require a need for speed. Another advantage is read times when reviewing photos as well as downloading them to my computer. I hope this conversion explanation will help some of you who are shopping for digital film.

Edison is in a good mood, originally uploaded by sexynojutsu.

It would seem there are an infinite number of ways to post to my blog. Here is a go at posting from flickr. Neat. I may just get that pro account as the photos of this little guy are really stacking up.

• Backups or syncing are definitely faster
• 3G coverage seems better (I’m getting more bars at this medical center where my wife has gone before and after the software update)

Apps are awesome and are the ever-defining feature of this device. There are so many apps out there that I feel like a Grandpa trying to catch up (though it really is because I have no time as a new father). I always have loved the photo-sharing type apps and have been using shozu for most of my needs (ever since my last phone, motorola razr v3xx). Photojojo researcher, Matt Nuzzaco, put together a great summary of a vast majority of photo apps with reviews of sharing apps, apps specifically for flickr and even tools to measure things like depth of field. Very helpful in a sea full of apps.