October 3, 2009 by hindesite
Recent events caused me to re-visit my ADSL connection, and my experiences with what I found may help others here. This article can be found online at http://hindesite.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/improving-adsl-performance/
Background
I’ve been an Orcon customer for many years, and have had a broadband connection through them since the old Jetstart days, probably around six years ago. Quite a few changes have happened to ADSL in NZ over that period, but apart from one change to the plan I was on, and having to replace one broken router, I’ve always viewed broadband as something that happened in the background and never thought too much about it – it’s there, it’s always on and it works, so it doesn’t require any attention.
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August 29, 2010 by hindesite
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PIE is an unique picture browser and viewer with exquisite photo metadata and file renaming features. It extracts EXIF, XMP and IPTC from JPG, TIF and RAW files and makes it available in a convenient and welcoming interface.
One part of the EXIF header is standardized and contains information such as date and time pictures were taken, shutter speed and aperture or whether the flash was used. But a lot of information such as program mode, white balance settings or lens data, is stored in the Makernote block, which is proprietary and can usually only be read with special software from the camera maker. PIE, however, contains the most extensive Makernote database on the market. With one single tool, you can review pictures with all the metadata from almost any camera.
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August 14, 2010 by hindesite
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With modern digital cameras is it relatively easy to get decent startrail-images. Instead of taking one long exposure one can take many shorter exposures and combine them in Photoshop using layers in “lighten”-modus.
The big advantage is that the background heaven will stay as dark as on the single exposures.
My procedure: When visual observing with my 12” dobsonion style Newton telescope I usually can’t resist taking some startrails. I put my Canon 10D on a tripod with a wide angle lens at maximum aperture. Camera is set to ISO 400 at an exposure time of 30s.
To start the exposures I put the camera in “continous drive”-mode and lock the cable release. Usually the camera is capable to take 3 frames a second, now however it takes one frame every 30 seconds
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Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.
Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com. Our online photo editing tool is fun and requires no registration or signup.
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Have you ever wondered how tilt-shift miniature photography works and why it looks so strangely convincing? Have you ever wanted to have a tilt-shift lens but couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars needed to buy one? Have you ever wanted to take real tilt-shift photos? Then this short introduction to tilt-shift photography and DIY tilt-shift lens building is probably for you.
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Tilt-shift examples on Flickr
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August 1, 2010 by hindesite
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CellWriter is a grid-entry natural handwriting input panel. As you write characters into the cells, your writing is instantly recognized at the character level. When you press Enter on the panel, the input you entered is sent to the currently focused application as if typed on the keyboard.
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July 21, 2010 by hindesite
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Most people test the speed of the Internet connection at one point or another, usually using a website such as SpeedTest to do so. The speed of your Internet connection is obviously a big deal because it dictates how quickly you can download files and also has an impact on the quality of streaming video.
But do you know the speed of your home network? This is tested less often, and there is no easy-as-pie website set up to help you with doing a network speed test. There is a simple utility called LAN Speed Test (unrelated to the SpeedTest website) that can help you figure out your home network’s precise speed.
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July 11, 2010 by hindesite
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This website is dedicated to Canon FD SLR camera's and FD mount lenses. There are 29 cameras and 327 lenses with a total of 188 reviews.
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Chrome extension for enhancing the awesome photo sharing site, Flickr.
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KIN's demise can't surprise anyone. When I looked at the phone's features, I thought: alright, an incomplete Facebook experience that I cannot improve by installing new applications… and I pay $$$ through the nose for a plan. But I've got a green dot and KIN Studio… maybe that will be enough to sell enough units to justify the Danger acquisition and the person-years of work behind getting KIN out. What the hell where all those people doing? I couldn't imagine anyone wanting the resulting iffy feature-phone at a smartphone cost, but KIN wasn't made for me. I was willing to let the market be the judge of KIN.
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In a March report that was not questioned by federal officials, BP said it had the capacity to skim and remove 491,721 barrels of oil each day in the event of a major spill.
As of Monday, with about 2 million barrels released into the gulf, the skimming operations that were touted as key to preventing environmental disaster have averaged less than 900 barrels a day.
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This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support". The original plan is to host different patches for android x86 support from open source community. A few months after we created the project, we found out that we could do much more than just hosting patches. So we decide to fork our code base that will provide android x86 support on different x86 platforms, and set up a git server to host it. To reflect this major change, we create this new project.
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April 10, 2010 by hindesite
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Slow network browsing in Windows XP 1) Shortcuts in 'My Network Places' make network browsing very slow. If the 'My Network Places' folder contains a shortcut to a network share, then each refresh of the explorer window will attempt to read icon information from every file in the remote location, causing the system to slow to a crawl. Removing all shortcuts from 'My Network Places' will return the system response to normal. Every time you open a file via a UNC name, Windows XP will automatically add another shortcut to the 'My Network Places' folder – so the issue tends to get worse over time. You can prevent the automatic addition of shortcuts by setting HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\ NoRecentDocsNetHood = 1
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February 17, 2010 by hindesite
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Easy Poster Printer enables you easily to print posters of any size (max 20×20 meters). Just drag n drop your picture into the application and click print. Easy Poster Printer also allows you to do basic image manipulations such as rotate, flip and stretch for better fit. When you are done creating an awesome poster simply save it! Easy Poster Printer comes with a Windows Shell Extension that allows you to see thumbnails of your posters in Windows, just as if it was pictures. This ensures that it is very easy to locate your posters in Windows for later use or sharing.
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Online html5 drawing application
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