Readers often question whether geotagging photos is worth the time and effort. Of course, this is a personal decision based on, among other considerations, the volume of photos you take, the number of locations you visit over a period of time, and the importance of knowing the precise location where a photo was taken. Oh, and whether you have a bit of geek in you, like we do.
The sunset view we enjoyed while drafting this article — in context.
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- Geotagging Your Photos, Part 1: Concepts and Basics
- Geotagging Your Photos, Part 2: Importing and Embedding GPS Data
- Geotagging Your Photos, Part 3: Uploading and Displaying
- GPS Data Logger Review: Geotagging Photos, A Hardware Update
- Geotagging Photos: A Software Review and Tutorial
Filed Under: Photography, Technology by: Audrey Scott
5 Comments | 22 January 2011
Do yourself the most mundane – yet valuable – of favors in the new year: back up your data.
If a hard drive has ever failed you, you’ll know the feeling. It’s like that scene in the horror movie when the victim, in the stroke of a nanosecond, realizes the peril. At that point, the knife is through the curtain and the damage is done. It’s all over.
And you’re asking yourself, “Why didn’t she just run when she had the chance?”
So why didn’t you back up your data when you had the chance? Continue Reading »
- Our Office-less Office
- Lensbaby, GPS upgrade, and a Mac: What’s New in Our Packs
- Backing Up Is Hard to Do
Filed Under: Technology, Travel Gear by: Daniel Noll
40 Comments | 7 January 2011
Filed Under: Photography, Technology by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
9 Comments | 16 August 2010
We are well overdue for a smartphone that can work for us, instead of one that we struggle with for basic functionality. In other words, it’s time to enter the mainstream. And with that, we’d like your help, your opinion.
Mobile phone cookies in Kyrgyzstan. If only choosing a phone were as easy as eating one.
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Filed Under: Technology by: Audrey Scott
33 Comments | 7 May 2010
We physically feel the weight of our equipment day in and day out. After settling down for a few days in northern Nicaragua recently, we unpacked and were visually reminded of it all, too.
Although the contents of our gadget bags haven’t changed drastically since we first shared the nuts and bolts of our digital nomadism, a few items have.
Here’s what’s new in our packs these days and why. Continue Reading »
- Our Office-less Office
- Lensbaby, GPS upgrade, and a Mac: What’s New in Our Packs
- Backing Up Is Hard to Do
Filed Under: Technology, Travel Gear by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
17 Comments | 13 July 2009
Before setting off on our journey, I had never touched HTML, I had no idea what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) meant and my writing consisted mainly of reports to management on how to operate legally and efficiently in countries like Azerbaijan or Kazakhstan.
How things have changed in the last couple of years. I can now code basic HTML, I’m painfully aware of the relevance of SEO and I now write pieces that have nothing to do with operating legally in Farflungistan.
My world has also changed because of social media, virtual connections, and this thing called Twitter. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, Technology by: Audrey Scott
8 Comments | 6 March 2009
Yesterday, our website was out for roughly 24 hours. Tragic? Certainly not. But maddening and disappointing it was.
If you attempted to visit yesterday, only to be rewarded with dead space and cryptic system messages, we apologize.
We thank Dreamhost, our website hosting provider, who in its infinite wisdom decided to schedule a move of our website in the middle of the day without informing us before throwing the kill switch. In a perfect storm of technical misfortune, our website move also coincided with a handful of other system-wide outages at Dreamhost. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, Technology by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
7 Comments | 18 February 2009
“How do you spend 24 hours a day together for two years and remain happily married…let alone sane?”
The answer to that oft-asked question is the stuff of a future blog series. In the meantime, I remind people, “It wasn’t always so.” There was a time when Dan and I were separated for 27 months. He was in San Francisco and I was in Estonia. And that was before Skype. Continue Reading »
- Love in the Age of Skype
- How to Travel the World Together Without Killing Each Other
Filed Under: Personal Growth, Technology by: Audrey Scott
16 Comments | 14 February 2009
Filed Under: NAST, Technology, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
12 Comments | 16 November 2008
Filed Under: China, Technology by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
1 Comment | 13 October 2008
