Author: Many Ayromlou

  • Pictomio….Image Viewer with class

    I don’t do this often, but this program actually proves that with a little bit of extra UI work, windows programs can look as good (if not better) than their OSX counter parts. Pictomio — which is a free btw — is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos and other media…

  • Drobo 2.0 is out…..

    Yeeaaaa, wait long enough and the 2.0 version will give you atleast half of the features you’re looking for. I always thought that Drobo was a great device but I refused to buy one since it was only USB2.0 device. Well, that was yesterday, today Drobo announced the availability of the same great Drobo features,…

  • Project C-90 – Audio Cassette Tape Heaven

    Since I was getting all nostalgic last weekend with the cassette tape photo shoot, I figured this might be a good follow-up. Have a quick look at c-90.org. It’s a “in progress” catalogue of all sorts of cassette tapes from all around the world. I think I might actually have some that they don’t have…

  • Bloggers and screen shooters: Disable shadow in window screen captures

    One of the things I don’t really like about OSX Leopard is the fact that everytime you take a screen shot of a window (Command-Shift-4 followed by Spacebar), it put’s a — for us bloggers — not so good looking shadow around the capture. Well not anymore, use the following command to disable the effect:defaults…

  • nerdlogger stumbls into tumblr….

    I’ve been hanging around tumblr.com for the last couple of days and I’m quite impressed. My buddy brad — bradfortner.com — would love this. He — and a lot of others — use twitter.com and tinyurl.com to keep track of stories they want to either read or blog and socialize. Well that plus a lot…

  • Holidays, 1stopoflight.com and I’m back in the Studio…..

    We’re having a extended long weekend, and I was working on my new photography site — 1stopoflight.com — when the studio bug bit me :-). Yeah everything was happy, I was customizing my new tumblr based photography site, when a couple of ideas started running through my head. Cassette Tapes, you know those magnetic beasts…

  • 1stopoflight.com is here….

    Well I finally broke down and did it. My new Photography site can be found hosted on tumblr at 1stopoflight.com. I’m using a modified museum theme by Paul Giacherio.The nice thing about having the site on tumblr is that I can host the physical photos on yahoo’s flickr.com and just link them into 1stopoflight.com‘s pages.…

  • Some CLI tunes…..

    Just when you thought your command line life was getting boring, we discover these happy tunes for your cut/paste pleasure. Just select the entire line, copy it, open a terminal window, paste it followed by Enter and marvel at your Mac. Yeah it’s a OSX thing and works best under 10.5, so if you’ve got…

  • JumpBox: Super simple way of getting web services deployed.

    If you read our “Open Source Lovin’ for your Server” earlier this year and thought “that’s too much trouble”, here is an even easier way to sample preconfigured Open Source Application Servers at your own leasure. Be it for developement, fun, backup or even production, you can not beat JumpBox at simplicity. What they’ve done…

  • Transcode and stream DV to mpeg4 via firewire using VLC and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

    Well kids are you ready for todays lesson in transcoding DV video. So first you need a decent machine. I’m using a P4 2.4Ghz oldie that has Firewire on-board and am chewing up 50% CPU for NTSC encoding. Then you need to get Ubuntu 8.04 installed. Once that’s done use the following command to install…