http://mediabaron.com/blog Thu, 17 May 2012 11:12:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://mediabaron.com/blog/2012/02/08/facebook-designers-listen-up-a-little-drop-shadow-goes-a-long-way/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2012/02/08/facebook-designers-listen-up-a-little-drop-shadow-goes-a-long-way/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:17:47 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2975 Facebook pushed upon its users a number of design changes. A new Timeline, condensed commenting and other things some of which I’m okay with, some are bothersome, others I hate. One thing I hate is how they recently decided to display a users photos. It doesn’t feel right. See examples below.]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2012/02/08/facebook-designers-listen-up-a-little-drop-shadow-goes-a-long-way/feed/ 0 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/12/16/itunes-mis-match/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/12/16/itunes-mis-match/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:13:25 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2867 iTunes Match service has a long way to go in working out the bugs. Take a look at the album art it downloaded to my computer for a Jimi Hendrix album. Poor Gomer never saw it coming, seems a lot of people have been getting his album cover instead of Jimi’s. Check out the brutal [...]]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/12/16/itunes-mis-match/feed/ 0 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/04/16/magic-lantern-for-canon-60d-fw-1-0-9/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/04/16/magic-lantern-for-canon-60d-fw-1-0-9/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:53:00 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/04/16/magic-lantern-for-60d-fw-1-0-9/ Looks like the Magic Lantern firmware hack for the Canon 60D has been posted for Firmware version 1.0.9 here This is an alpha version (really early software, before even beta) of the software hack, hope they can move it along as the Canon 60D really needs some of its features like: on screen audio meters [...]]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/04/16/magic-lantern-for-canon-60d-fw-1-0-9/feed/ 2 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/03/07/developing-wordpress-plugins/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/03/07/developing-wordpress-plugins/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:33:26 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2637 Geek-talk ahead I put together my first WordPress plugin and was going to submit it to the plugin repository but on second thought I decided not to because: You have to jump through a few hoops to install it You have to continue jumping through a few hoops to maintain it I may lag in [...]]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/03/07/developing-wordpress-plugins/feed/ 1 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/01/08/slo-mo-optical-flow/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/01/08/slo-mo-optical-flow/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:38:10 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2521 I haven’t used Final Cut Studio to its fullest and I’ve been wanting to use Motion to create some slow-motion footage for awhile and luckily there was a pretty easy tutorial posted online (see below). I shot some footage of surfing at Kawaihae Harbor this week an decided to use it as a test. You’ll [...]]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2011/01/08/slo-mo-optical-flow/feed/ 0 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2010/07/16/taro-dreams/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2010/07/16/taro-dreams/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:50:44 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2414 A film by PF Bentley. I must admit that although I’m not a big fan of poi I do love steamed taro. Some beautiful filmmaking by my buddy PF Bentley who now calls the Friendly Isle home. Shot with a Canon 7D HD-dSLR and GoPro Hero.]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2010/07/16/taro-dreams/feed/ 0 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2010/01/22/dirty-harry-meets-his-match/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2010/01/22/dirty-harry-meets-his-match/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:37:09 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2301 ]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2010/01/22/dirty-harry-meets-his-match/feed/ 0 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/11/15/2012-the-movie-review/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/11/15/2012-the-movie-review/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:38:16 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2262 *Spoiler Alert* DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW UNLESS YOU’VE ALREADY SEEN THE MOVIE! Noble scientist tries to save the world but it’s a secret (he lives) Explosions, crashes, earthquakes, devestation (this is the best part) Doom kept secret by government, those who stumble upon secret murdered Divorced dad stumbles upon government secret with kids but [...]]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/11/15/2012-the-movie-review/feed/ 1 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/07/04/but-will-oprah-recommend-it/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/07/04/but-will-oprah-recommend-it/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:02:39 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2204 The first page of a book showed-up on digg.com and people had a field day posting comments for the book on Amazon.com You have got to read the reviews on Amazon.com after reading the page below.]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/07/04/but-will-oprah-recommend-it/feed/ 1 http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/04/07/any-relation/ http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/04/07/any-relation/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:04:26 +0000 Baron http://mediabaron.com/blog/?p=2092 A film short by Joe Sekiya]]> http://mediabaron.com/blog/2009/04/07/any-relation/feed/ 0