During any given photo shoot, I usually have a few pieces of equipment with me that have WiFi capabilities, and it’s nice when I can get them all talking to each other and serving a useful purpose. There’s the Nikon WT-3 grip for the D200 (which is a fantastic setup for shooting events where on-site…
When I first heard of AirPlay, I figured “Apple only”, being the proprietary types that they are. I’d always seen it bandied about with words like “Apple TV“, “iMac” and “Macbook Pro“. As the only Apple devices I own are iPhones and iPads, I never really looked much further into it. A few days ago,…
TTSOL is going to become a section on the site that I will populate over the coming weeks, months and years. It stands for “Taking The Studio On Location”, and it’s really just an attempt to make life easier for myself. Working in a studio environment is great. It really is. It’s warm, it’s dry,…
I’ve been using DropBox for probably about 3 years now, and it’s rather good. Overall, I’ve been quite impressed. It’s reliable, fairly quick (bandwidth permitting), and fantastic for delivering work to clients and models. Delivery of final work to clients and models I’ve shot with has been pretty much my sole reason for using DropBox, and…
GPS is something I’ve wanted to play with for a long time, but the cost of GPS modules has always put them way out of reach for just for the sake of having a new toy to play with. At the moment, however, the good folks over at Cool Components are running a January clearance…
Thus far, I’ve only used this blog to post about Linux stuff, but I also created it to write about photography related things as well. First of those photography related things is the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport (CCP), as I’ve had a number of people asking me about this recently. So, what is it? Why use…
Cross compiling is something I’ve never really had a need to do before. All of my past Linux machines have been your standard 32Bit or 64Bit x86 based PCs, and have been fast enough that I’ve been able to compile on the machine it’ll be running on. But, if a 15 hour XBMC compile taught…
I’ll get around to the “why” of this in another post, but I’ve decided to setup VirtualBox on one of my Windows machines. With using Raspbian and Cubian, I figured I should probably keep things consistent and go with Debian.
With XBMC on the CubieBoard a bust. It’s time to go back to my original thought, which is to set it up as a web server. While I will generally run this without a monitor connected, I have decided to restore from the backup that already has LXDE installed. Yes, I could set it up…
The very first result that Google gave me when trying to find information on running XBMC on the CubieBoard (which is powered by the Allwinner A10), was this link. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Android_hardware This, in clear letters states… “Avoid hardware that uses the Allwinner series of chips (such as the Allwinner A10). Development is not going well for…
