Seriously trivial thoughts
A couple months ago, I blogged about an upcoming $180 analog control for computer program interfaces. The concept really intrigued me, although I wasn’t sure a single dial was really going to do it for me. Recently, I was listening to the Cool Photo Tools podcast and one of the hosts mentioned a product called …
It’s been a while, but I’ve got another set of MMK9 dog photos for you! It was held at Maury Mavericks, Jr. Library, which was celebrating its 10th anniversary. Only three dogs were at the event, but I got some nice shots.
Ok, there’s probably not a lot of you out there that care about the “Analog Hole,” but I’m going to tell you why it’s important…at least to me ;-) Basically, it’s what people use to get around digital copy protection. Recording the audio output from a CD player is taking advantage of the Analog Hole. …
I’ve always loved GIFs and the ancient animated file format introduced by CompuServe way back in 1987 just seems to be hanging in there, if not making a comeback. The problem back in the day was they weren’t particularly efficient and even a short one would be large, at least for the time. Now, with mega-megabyte …
On February 18, 2016, my birthday, the FCC has this on their meeting agenda: Expanding Consumer Choice: The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on a framework for providing innovators, device manufacturers and app developers the information they need to develop new technologies to access video content. (MB Docket No. …
No Title No Description I have been waiting a very long time for someone to make a worthy successor to the Sony Aibo which was discontinued in 2005. It really looks like WowWee has done it with CHiPK9, billed as the “World’s First Lovable Robot Dog”.
Ambient-mixer.com has done something incredible: They have recreated the ambient sounds from Harry Potter movies. Now you can feel like you are in the Great Hall, the Gryffindor Common Room or any of the other houses. Wanna ride the Hogwarts Express? The sounds are there. It’s pretty cool how the sounds are an actual mix of …
Somehow the Lightning cable connector tip snapped off inside my girlfriend’s iPad. At first, it seemed impossible to get the broken piece out of the slot since there is nothing to grab onto and the opening is terribly small. A Google search came up with several possible solutions, some of which suggested super-gluing the broken …
My gf got this Nikon lens coffee mug for me as a Christmas present. Quite a conversation piece and even a decent coffee mug!
I rely a lot on Evernote for long-term note-taking. I also use Anylist for things like shopping and other checklists. The problem with both of these is I have to remember to check them. I’ve also tried time-based reminder apps on my phone, but there are a lot of important things on my To-Do list …