Hardware
[ Aug 29 2016 ]
Cactus Radio Trigger for Ricoh Theta S
The Ricoh Theta is a great camera, but what if you could trigger a flash with it? Spoiler: you can’t.
Technology
[ Apr 13 2016 ]
Seagate’s SMR Hard Drives – Cheap, Fast, Tricky
I’m a photographer, and I shoot RAW images that are 20-30MB each. I’ll create anywhere from 2 to 50 GB of images for a photoshoot, and I never throw away my images. So, in 2015, I needed a little more than 3TB of storage. I predict the same need for 2016, and I back every […]
Technology
[ Jul 29 2015 ]
Sony: Fucking Idiots
It’s been a long time since I felt this familiar anger, this boiling frustration with preposterous dumbassery that promises to make my life a little awesomer and much worse at the same time. But oh, Sony, you guys are fucking stupid.
Technology
[ Jul 29 2015 ]
MiniDisc Frequency Analysis
A bad science look at the frequency recording of Sony’s MD using different methods. Spoiler: it’s complicated!
Technology
[ May 21 2015 ]
Things Samsung Should Fix
I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Note 4. It’s a brilliant piece of hardware let down by its software. Samsung does not, it seems, give much of a shit about their software. My guess is they would rather not bother with software at all, but because no fool will buy amazing hardware if it doesn’t […]
Technology
[ May 21 2015 ]
Samsung Note 4: One More Button
Technically it’s illegal to touch a mobile phone while driving in Queensland, but I figure it’s the lesser of evils when the only legitimate alternative is to ram other cars off the road when a shit song can’t be skipped. So I had to add a button to my Galaxy Note 4 somehow.
Games
[ Jun 2 2014 ]
PC Engine Magazine Retrospective
The rise and fall of the PC Engine, viewed through a 43GB archive of magazine scans.
Hardware
[ Feb 4 2014 ]
iiNet mailed me a KYP USB key
I received an interesting thing in the mail yesterday, it’s a USB dongle from iiNet, a large Australian ISP.
Technology
[ Mar 24 2013 ]
Chinese hackers ate my PC
That time China hacked my computer.
Technology
[ Dec 23 2003 ]
New Video Primer: Complete!
I’ve been working on this for more than three months, but finally figured out how to put it all together coherently tonight. This is a layman’s introduction to a number of different things, starting with different video formats and how they stack up in terms of quality and resolution. There’s also a series of supplemental […]
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