Tag Archives: Tech
Restoring from snapshots with ZFS
I’ve been using ZFS at work for a while, but haven’t really had time to tinker with it to see what makes it tick and use it actively. One of the great benefits that I’ve found to using it is that it sits there and requires no human input 99.9% […]
Repeating Sound Grid
This is one of the most fun Tenori-On analogues I’ve come across. It’s really well done, too! Click the squares and put some headphones on. See you in 3 hours.
Android 4.0 coming in early 2012
The makers of CyanogenMod have announced on Twitter that they are working on CM9 and should have a release ready by early 2012. This is very exciting news as the new version of the popular Android OS, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich has a whole bunch of new fixes and improvements […]
Skyrim, Dragons and Lemmings, Oh My!
Every man and his dog is playing Skyrim, to the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth of spouses/girlfriends, howling in impotent rage as their man is sucked into a strange world. A world where the less armour a lady wears, the better her armour rating. A world where people […]
Phone Customising
After nearly turning my HTC Desire into a matte-brown and rather expensive paperweight, I emerged on the other side with a bright shiny new phone which now has a whole bunch of things installed on it. The first thing that I did after recovering it is immediately flash Oxygen 2.1.4 […]
Slow Motion Video With Twixtor
While browsing the web looking at videos, I stumbled across a series of clips that were shot on regular 30 or 60 FPS cameras like mine and then slowed way down with incredible results. I was intrigued, as one would naturally be by such tech. I discovered that folks did […]
iPad Light Painting
A friend linked this and it’s a brilliant idea! Drawing 3D light paintings using a long-exposure photograph and an iPad. Note that I’m not saying “OMGOMGOMGOMG THE IPAD IS AWESUM GET OEN NOW!!1!”. However, what these guys did is bloody clever!
Mobile Madness
I just installed a nifty tool on my G1 which allows me to post stuff from my phone wherever I am. Scary! It’s like Twitter Lite! Hope you enjoyed my web design post – I have another in the works about how to keep your data safe and prevent data […]