Month: January 2010

  • Back to Pics……

    Wow I just realized I hadn’t posted any of my recent photos. I think the last set was from my trip to Portland. Anyways, I guess this will be a combo post. I’ve been busy shooting people for a bit before the holidays (Toronto Strobist Group and a private shoot) and while that was fun,…

  • ._ resource fork files don’t work properly in OSX 10.6 Samba……

    Well the title is a bit misleading…..here are the details. I found out that if you have a NTFS native shared directory on your server, everything works fine as long as you’re using OSX 10.5 (Leopard) or below as a client. You can move files from Leopard and/or Tiger clients to the share and as…

  • Hiding Files and Folders in OSX Finder…..

    If you ever have a need to simply hide extraneous files and/or folder entries in Finder you can use the following command:chflags hidden ~/MoviesThis example will hide the “Movies” folder from showing up in Finder. There is a easy way to get to the folder if you decide to later on, just go to Finder’s…

  • PodCamp Toronto 2010 is right around the corner

    Yep it’s that time of the year again. Mark February 20 & 21 in your calendars…..PODCAMP TORONTO 2010 IS COMING TO TOWN. PodCamp Toronto 2010 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…

  • Solid Colour background in Windows causes 30-second login delay…

    Yep MS strikes again. This time though it’s funny as hell. Turns out a bug in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 causes a whopping 30 seconds delay to your login process if you have a solid colour background set as your desktop wallpaper. Why? Well it’s MS, what did you expect, a working…

  • DisplayPort does true 4K video….plus other stuff….

    Well, it’s taken a bit of time, but I think with the announcement of DP1.2 specs last December, the specs (and hopefully soon the vendors) are ready for True Digital Cinema home implementation. The DisplayPort connector supports 1, 2, or 4 data pairs in a main link that also carries clock and optional audio signals,…

  • Elgato turbo.264 HD video encoding coprocessor review…….

    I just picked one of these babies up from the apple store and after testing it a bit for the past hour, I have one word for it: WOW. This little guy is no gimmick, it’s zippy as hell and it does exactly what they say it would. The details for the device are on…

  • OpenShot Video Editor 1.0 released…..iMovie for Linux is here.

    For those of you who don’t know OpenShot Video Editor(TM) is an open-source program that creates, modifies, and edits video files. OpenShot provides extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working with high-definition video including HDV and AVCHD. Jonathan Thomas and crew have reached their 1.0 milestone (congrats…

  • Best 12 minutes you’ll spend in January……

    The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Check out Alex Roman’s “The Third & The Seventh” video. Absolutely amazing and right up there with some of the best produced pieces of art I’ve seen on the net. The amazing part is that except some small compositing elements, the rest of the movie…

  • Homebrew Digital 3D Movies

    Great article over at Make Magazine online, all about homebrew digital 3D movies. It’s a reprint of an older  article (from Make Vol. 14) by Eric Kurland, where he explains in quite a bit of detail how he accomplished this setup.