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 [...]
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Developing WordPress plugins
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 [...]
Slo-Mo Optical Flow
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 [...]
Adios Adobe
(non-photo geeks may want to skip over this post) Adobe has released their Camera Raw 4.6 plug-in for Macs and Windows versions of Photoshop CS3. This plug-in allows CS3 (aka Photoshop v10) to open the latest RAW files from new digital cameras. The problem is that Adobe says 4.6 is the last update to Camera [...]
Wot Dat?
I made it and it shall be known as Frogasurus. Make your own via the creature creator from http://www.spore.com You’ll need a pretty hefty graphics card and cpu to have fun with the trial app.
Firefox better than Safari on Apple’s site
I’m not sure what’s up with Apple’s browser Safari. I visited the iPhone Dev Center to learn a few tricks so I could create a couple of little iPhone apps but the dumb page won’t display in Safari. I’m using the latest version on Leopard and it won’t work. But Mozilla’s Firefox works just fine [...]
Cat with Bow Golf
Pretty fun game. Click on the image above to play. Hints: * Click and drag on the cat to draw back the bow * You can shoot arrows while in the air My crappy score was +8
Infinite Loop
Very weird email problem today. I have this repeating email error message that I can’t delete. Or to be more precise, I can select it and throw it in the trash and even delete it from the trash but it automatically repopulates in my In Box. I deleted the offending email off the POP-Server but [...]
Welcome to the suck
You know your life is going to suck for the next few hours when you insert your 4GB CF memory card into a reader and this shows up on the screen. Clicking on the card proceeded to freeze the laptop, subsequent attempts at mounting the card normally via USB reader (two different readers) and a [...]
Freedom from the Office (MS Office that is)
NeoOffice is a free and nice alternative to Microsoft Office and unlike OpenOffice it doesn’t need X11 to run. It runs natively in Mac OSX by using Java. So if you’re in need of an office suite for you Mac OSX machine and have more important things to do with your money (rent, food, childcare, [...]
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