The View from Aristeia

While digitizing my analog videotapes, I came across a short 1989 demo by Bill Gaver of his SonicFinder™, an interesting piece of early work on audio in user interfaces. It's easy to find online copies of research papers describing The SonicFinder™,...

After more than a decade storing photos and videos in iCloud, I decided to download my stuff to my PC and delete the copies at Apple. I figured I'd log into iCloud using my web browser, click the Download link, wait a while for the eighty-plus gigabytes...

A few years ago, I published a series on metadata in image files with a focus on old slides and photos that had been scanned. I've since turned my attention to metadata for video files, because I had a number of old home movies digitized.
I assumed that most of what I'd learned about image file metadata would apply. I also assumed that because widespread consumer use of digital video came after mass adoption of digital photography, the inconsistent, competing, overlapping metadata standards...

It's been more than two years since I last looked into the availability of all-electric convertibles, so I thought I'd do a quick check to see where things stand now. Here's a rundown (in alphabetical order) on the models I mentioned in that post, plus...