Archive for the 'video' Category

List of Links: 001 – Human-powered Dogma

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

What are all these links for? Find out here.
Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It) by Lifehacker
This is a great overall post for anybody. It takes many aspects of daily human (middle class) life and explains how our brain is attempting to sabotage potential good decisions. Most of the [...]

720p is the bare minimum

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

I’ve been pondering this thought for a long time, but the iPhone 4 announcement finally confirmed it for me:
The only reason you wouldn’t record video in HD 720p from 2011 onwards is if you’re doing it for artistic purposes.
The iPhone 4 is the first iPhone to record HD video. It’s definitely NOT the first mobile [...]

Geotagging Cameras

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

While cleaning out my ginormous pile of tabs in Firefox today I stumbled on this Gizmodo article about the new Leica V-LUX 20. It has a GPS chip inside and geotags where photos are taken.
My dream!

I’ve been manually geotagging my photos on Flickr for quite a long time. (Not to mention titling, describing, and tagging [...]

When Equal Rights get out of hand

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Today, Brian Shaler tweeted a link to an ABC News article/video that documented a Hallmark greeting card that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is considering racist.
Watch the video for the full story, and then I’ll share my thoughts below:

I only have basic knowledge on racism (mainly toward black/African American people) [...]

Toyota has me sold!

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Today I saw a tweet (below) from Greg Grunberg which mentioned how his ‘other’ superpower is “Swagger”.
He ended up tweeting it three times in a matter of minutes; first via web, then via the Ad.ly Network, and finally via web again. The first two tweets (including the ‘ad’) appear to have been deleted though.

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Johnny Cupcakes Tour 2010

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

You know about Johnny Cupcakes, right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight?!
I certainly hope so! He’s a bloody awesome dude! I’ve made many great friends the vast online world I encapsulate myself with, but ‘bloody awesome dudes’ are few and far between.
So, if you don’t know about Johnny and his giddy ways, then go here now.
Johnny (and his crew) is [...]

Taking an iPhone from Australia to USA

Friday, March 12th, 2010

This issue has been solved.
See how to resolve at bottom of post.
I first got an iPhone 2G in 2008. It was a magical device that advanced me into the 21st century. I’d like to thank Chris for making that possible.
I used the phone on AT&T (I got a no-contract, month-by-month plan with data and all [...]