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Category: Tech
Experimenting with HDR photography
It’s been some time since my last post. Many things have happened – started working on wifi.com, some developments at Whisher, and have also started to look into HDR photography. HDR stands for high dynamic range, and it is best explained while following the tutorial by Trey Ratcliff, who creates frames like this one: My [...]
Google sucks at finding product reviews
Case example: the Sony SPK-HCE waterproof case for video cameras. I tried to find a good, in-depth review, or even just a blog post by someone who had used one and could shed some light into wether dumping over 200€ on this thing is worth it. However, searching for “SPK-HCE review” on Google returned 1660 [...]
So long Whisher – and thanks for all the fish
Went to the Madrid colo on Wednesday to shut down Whisher’s servers. As some of you may know, Wifi.com, backed by Rob Monster, acquired Whisher in mid January. I have joined Wifi.com as CTO, and continue to improve upon Whisher’s offerings – the main aim now is to make social interaction possible through the wifi.com [...]
Spotify updates client, blocks countries by IP address
It looks like tricks will no longer fool the Spotify client – it was until recently possible to create an account over a tunnel to a UK IP address and set your country to UK, in order to access a lot of the blocked content that people in certain countries are not allowed to listen [...]
iPhone 3G MMS and tethering with Movistar working!
There news have made several rounds already, but there wasn’t any specific guide on how to get MMS and network tethering working on the new 3.0 iPhone 3G firmware, released to developers a few days ago. Several guides have been posted, but they all more or less copy & paste what is found in the [...]
iPhone 3.0 more stable if you restore from backup
After I wrote about how unstable iPhone OS v3.0 is, I’ve been testing it with a fresh restore, but this time setting up the iPhone from one of my previous v2.2.1 backups, and I have to say that for whatever reason, it is much more stable. There are still some silly bugs, but also some [...]
iPhone 3.0 first impressions
So I went ahead, ignored all good sense, and updated my iPhone 3G to the new iPhone 3.0 Beta, released by Apple to developers a few days ago (I’m a registered developer, so I have access to the firmware). The first two restores, which I did not choosing to configure from a 2.2.1 backup, caused [...]
Ninja bastard Mac Pro, yours for $18.917
These are the specs of a maxed-out Mac Pro in the Apple Store, after the desktop line of Macs has been revamped: Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 32GB (8x4GB) Mac Pro RAID Card 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 4x NVIDIA [...]
The App Store badly needs a trial mode
I read TUAW’s review of Vocalia with great interest, went to the App Store, only to find an average 2.5 stars, with the bad ratings being really bad. Before sinking $3.99 into an app like this, I would like to be able to test it, particularly based on the bad reviews. Since apps are wrapped [...]
The adventure with DataKits UK has begun
A company-owned Nokia N82 happened to have a failed LCD display module when it was returned, and since replacing it yourself is an easy task (pop the screen cover off, unstick the LCD, disconnect the cable, replace with the new LCD, and close the cover), I went looking for spare parts. Nobody seemed to have [...]
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