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Recent photo shoots with Toronto Strobist Group….
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a photo post, so here is a newish one from a couple of recent shoots with TSG (Toronto Strobist Group). First a sample from our Holiday 2010 shoot (Full flickr set can be viewed here). Next is the Stroboscopic shoot which was a lot of fun (Full flickr…
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Tethering iphone 3GS and ipad 1G using bluetooth…
Yep, it works. I was kinda disappointed when firmware 4.3 was introduced and the 3GS owners were left in the cold as far as wifi hotspot sharing. Apple only activated that function on the iphone 4. Anyhow, after messing around with the menus a bit tonite, I figured out how to do something similar to…
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TeamCoCo does it again…..
Absolutely hilarious parody video of iPad2……Gooo Team COCO :-)
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PodCamp Toronto 2011 is almost here…..
Yep it’s that time of the year again. Mark February 26 & 27 in your calendars…..PODCAMP TORONTO 2011 IS COMING TO TOWN. PodCamp Toronto 2011 is a FREE “unconference” bringing together professionals and hobbyists from Toronto and the surrounding area to explore the cutting edge of new and social media. If you are an online…
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Adding mcrypt support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….
I got a request to add mcrypt support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…
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Adding GD support to builtin php5 on OSX Leopard….
I got a request to add GD support to our Leopard server today and here is a brief step-by-step installation instruction. This works well under the current 10.5.8 server installation. It should also work for 10.6 (snow leopard), but I have not tried it. Before you start here are the requirements: Backup your system Install…
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Hauppauge Broadway: OTA ATSC streaming for iOS devices….
Yep, just like the title says, hauppauge has announced the Broadway, a new “set-top” aimed at iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. The hardware streams live OTA HDTV to an Apple handheld after first compressing the video using H.264. The resulting media can be delivered locally over Wi-Fi, or to a remote place using any…
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Controlling Humanoid Robot with Kinect
aka. the coolest kinect hack I’ve seen to date. Very cool demo.
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Optimizing Snow Leopard for SSD drives….
I just installed a new 128GB SSD drive in my older C2D 17″ macbook Pro and let me tell you….WOW….This thing is on fire. The system is extremely responsive and apps literally jump onto the screen. The machine now boots up to full desktop in roughly 17 seconds. Now that’s nice. I did do a…
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Homebrew 8mm film telecine machine…..
From the pages of Make magazine……Absolutely awesome homebrew. >16,000 frames at 2.4 seconds per frame…..simply brilliant :-)