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.
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iTunes Mis-Match
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 [...]
How to fix SSH login problems with your Dreamhost VPS
If you use DreamHost’s VPS service you may have recently had your host server upgraded to Debian OS ‘Squeeze’ v6.0.2.
This happened mostly through the month of August, maybe it’s still happening.
One of the side effects of this was that the RSA host key changed for the server. Most folks won’t notice this but if you’ve used SSH to access the server you’re probably getting the warning message below. (I changed RSA key, username and domain name to generic names in the example below.)
How to get past the NYTimes.com paywall nag screen
The video first shows how the nag screen pops open preventing you from readying the webpage without a subscription. There are actually three easy ways (only two are shown in the video). Chop-off everything to the right of the ‘.html’ in the URL to visit the webpage. Just hit the ‘Reader’ button in Apple’s Safari [...]
Will Fox News say the 5.9 magnitude quake is Obama’s fault?
So if Fox News blames the 5.9M quake as Obama’s fault I say welcome Mr. President. Having a fault named after you is an honor. Join the club.
How to get Safari to load tabbed pages in the background in Mac OSX Lion
I use tabs a lot in Safari, like really a lot. So much that I will open over 50 open at one instance so #2-#50 can load in the background while I’m reading #1. But with the new Safari v5.1 and Mac OSX Lion that all changed. I’d open the tabs and none of the [...]
Pssst. The secret on how to block the Facebook Chat window
I was getting a bit peeved on the Facebook Chat window popping open all the time even though I wasn’t even logged into chat. Zuck is really pushing hard on this ‘awesome’ new feature. After a bit of research on the internet I had my answer. It’s to add an extension to Safari called AdBlock [...]
Mac Protector malware app Gone Wild on Macs
A new malware app is making its rounds amongst Mac users. It goes under the names: Mac Protector, Mac Defender, Mac Security and people are accidentally downloading it and running it. It’s not a ‘virus’ but more like a trojan horse. The app pretends to be an anti-virus application (hey someone gave us a gift [...]
Magic Lantern for Canon 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 [...]
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 [...]
