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Around The Horn
1 November 2021
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention. This time we look at Andrea Torrei, Alice Mann, the Canon Powershot PX, Harvey Stearn, Live Text, the TTartisans 35mm f1.4, macOS security and the Bidi algorithm problem.
- In Ghana: Gold Coast, Italian photographer Andrea Torrei captures "a country where life is not easy -- but where people can still dream."
- Alice Mann documents South Africa's Drummies, "capturing the pride and performance of the young, all-female groups that practice this competitive sport."
- Canon is Introducing the New Canon Powershot PX as your own personal photographer (at least in Europe). The PowerShot PX is a bit like a smart speaker but takes photos rather than making noise:
- In My First Major Photography Trip Since 2019, Harvey Stearn returns to Teton National Park in Wyoming. "This trip to the Tetons didn't match my expectations," he writes. But the images are still stunning.
- In Live Text in iOS 15, Derrick story finds a useful tool for photographers. "I use Live Text two basic ways," he writes. "First, to provide data to Siri to learn more about the subject. And second, like an OCR scanner for text embedded in pictures so I can use the text separately."
- Kirk Tuck took his Leica CL with TTartisans 35mm f1.4 for a walk through downtown Austin. the $75 manual lens costs less than a Leica lens cap.
- In The Pioneers Are Winning, Howard Oakley explains why upgrading to Monterey makes more sense than sticking with Big Sur. It's all about security. (We're now two versions of macOS beyond what our hardware supports ourselves.)
- And on that note, Brian Krebs reports a 'Trojan Source' Bug Threatens the Security of All Code. "Researchers with the University of Cambridge discovered a bug that affects most computer code compilers and many software development environments," he writes. And "the weakness involves Unicode's bi-directional or 'Bidi' algorithm, which handles displaying text that includes mixed scripts with different display orders." Code compilers will need upgrades to handle the breech.
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