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White Whine

| Published: November 4, 2009
My current computer is exponentially more powerful than the one I had when I started using Unix, but thanks to software bloat and feature-creep, it still seems to take roughly the same length of time to compile software. (This comes after hours of trying to get Mactex to play nicely with latex2rtf because my college [...]
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Are Apple Products Badly Engineered?

| Published: September 18, 2009
There’s a lot of brouhaha about the failure rate of Xbox 360s. In the same week, I saw three different news stories citing three different failure rates for the 360 (54.2%, 23.7% and 27.3%, if you’re interested). And everyone gives them shit because they’re, y’know, Microsoft. Having spent the morning fixing a dying Macbook, I [...]
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iPhone on Flickr

| Published: July 4, 2009
According to the site’s public data, the iPhone (green line) is the most popular camera on Flickr, having just passed the Canon Digital Rebel XTi/EOS 400D (pink line). It’s also interesting to see how the iPhone ranks in the percentage usage among camera phones (read: it’s virtually the only game in town). I had really [...]
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Reality Overlay

| Published: June 27, 2009
Now that high end “Smart Phones” are being released with all sorts of built-in doo-dads, like a camera, GPS unit and compass, it means that phones know exactly where they are and what you’re pointing them at. Which leads to some interesting applications: It works as follows: Starting up the Layar application automatically activates the [...]
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“Cars” 2-Disc Blu-Ray coming

| Published: March 6, 2007
Well, it was bound to happen eventually, I just wasn’t expecting it so soon. According to an article on thedigitalbits.com, Disney will be releasing Cars on Blu-Ray in June. And because of the amount of extra content and the ridiculously high resolution of the movie on the disc, they’re going to be releasing it as [...]
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Havok Physics in the new Star Wars game

| Published: February 27, 2007
Video footage of a Lucasarts presentation of the technology they’re going to be using in the next Indiana Jones and Star Wars games. This includes the latest version of the Havok physics engine. Besides the killer technology on show, this video is also interesting for the part where they blow up Jar Jar Binks encased [...]
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Forget Barcamp, where’s Ireland’s SXSW?

| Published: February 21, 2007
BarCamp Dublin will be taking place in a couple of months and, despite the fact that it’s happening on my front door (I work in the Digital Depot), I probably won’t be attending. In short, this is mainly because I don’t think it has that much to offer to me. I have a blog, but [...]
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Soft-modded Xbox Media Centre!

| Published: February 20, 2006
Remember a few days ago, I wrote about the TV shows I love? Well. apart from Grand Designs and the Channel 4-led shame-fest of Supernanny, Brat Camp and It’s Me or the Dog, I don’t tend to watch much TV on er… TV. The ease of availability of just about any show I want to [...]
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Broadband at last!

| Published: November 3, 2005
Reports are coming in of a working broadband installation in my apartment. Rumour has it that my girlfriend rang up the guys in Clearwire yesterday and they delivered the modem today – she just plugged it in and away she went. (Incidentally, right now, her IRC conversation consists of “SO HAPPY”, “THIS IS THE BEST [...]
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Simple Wifi Setup?

| Published: October 17, 2005
Our office is reasonably thin, but quite long. It’s also broken up into three areas Developer Room Front office Board room The developer room is, obviously, where most of the action happens. It’s got an existing wireless connection, but since our office is so long, its range doesn’t quite extend to the front office. It [...]
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