I’ve practically lived on a computer since I was six years old. So, they’ve featured prominently in my life for four decades. I document some of those experiments and adventures here.
WordPress used to be wonderful. Sure, it was fairly basic, but it allowed for a lot of customisation, allowing you to really make it your own. This was particularly true when it came to the post editor. Then Gutenberg came. That was the beginning of bad WordPress decisions. Ok, so, Gutenberg isn’t quite as bad…
This post is mostly a brain dump to remind me what my line of thinking was when I revisit this topic a year or two from now. You’ll find that I post these now and again. Writing things out helps me make sense of them and spot things I might have missed. Anyway… Networking. My…
It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s a step in the right direction. Lifehacker recently posted a way to turn these off, but at the moment Facebook only really allows you to do it on the desktop. We can turn it off for Android and iOS devices, but only if they’re using GPRS/3G/4G (ie, not WiFi),…
This post is the consequence of a conversation I had yesterday evening with my sister, chatting to her about the upcoming South Lakes Interclub Photography Competition, and how the whole thing works. But it is also kind of the point I was attempting to make on my previous post about fixing things in Photoshop that you…
SD cards are pretty cheap these days, but that doesn’t mean we should let our smaller ones go to waste, especially when a system doesn’t fully utilise the space of a larger one that could be more useful elsewhere. So, what can we do?
When the Eye-Fi works so well with the iPad, why would I want to seemingly make life more complicated for myself by adding more hardware into the mix? Well, transferring to a Linux based machine like the CubieTruck offers me some advantages over the iPad. Some of them I alluded to in my previous post…
I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d write a little bit more about my decision to run Debian through VirtualBox on a Windows machine. So, here we are. This post is more of a ramble than anything else. There’s no real substance here (and feel free to agree or disagree with that), I’m just…
My current WiFi situation on Location works for me at the moment. As I shoot, a couple of seconds after hitting the shutter, the images come up on my iPad screen. I can immediately see which images have hit their focus and are nice and sharp without unwanted motion blur. I can get a better…
I’ve had a few people message me on Facebook asking exactly how my network is setup, now that I’ve added the TP-Link TL-WR702N into the mix. It looks a bit of a mess, and this isn’t the kind of imagery I’m typically used to making in Photoshop, but this is the basic setup.
So, I’m now officially a Trucker. A CubieTrucker, that is. It arrived yesterday, sadly about half an hour before I had to go out, so I pretty much just had chance to put the case together (almost), and didn’t really get to play with it properly at all. But, it’s beautiful, look at it!
