As I just posted to 43 Things [a site that is sadly now dead — Ed.], I finally shipped my first public iPhone app, so maybe it’s time to look back at this journey and see how it’s gone so far. It seems like there’s always more and better to learn, but I learned enough…
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Clean Start with a New Mac
I finally got a new 17” MacBook Pro to replace both my aging 15” MBP and Mac Pro. Essentially, I see it as the MBP is my new desktop, and if I need to be truly portable, I’ve got the iPad — partially to help minimize the amount of physical possessions, and partially because my…
Family Photo Archive, a.k.a. Scanning odd film formats
As I think I may have mentioned before, I’ve become my family’s Family Photo Archivist, scanning in decades and decades of prints, film negatives and slides, and trying to get them in a web-based solution where everyone else in the family who is so inclined can access them for viewing, printing, and also to assist…
Downloading Movies from Dropbox
When you upload a QuickTime or other movie file to Dropbox, and then get the “public link” to give to someone else, Dropbox does a really cool thing and redirects the original movie file link to deliver a very simple web page with the movie embedded in it instead. Which looks great in a browser…
FCP Digital Cinema Desktop Display Issue with Mini DisplayPorts
My client who ran into this problem is using a brand new Mac Pro (Early 2009/Nehalem) with two NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 display cards. This dual-card setup seemed to be the most expedient option, since they wanted to use two of the new 24″ LED Cinema Displays, and each GeForce GT 120 has one Mini…
History Hacker, TONIGHT, 8pm & 12M on History
I was involved in making this really awesome, smart, fun, geeky history show with a strong science bent and a maker ethos. I hope you all watch the the show tonight, because it really deserves to live on as a series (and there’s a dearth of smart, fun, geeky shows on the air)! From History.com:…
After Effects Anaglyphic 3D Video
After Effects Anaglyphic 3D Video, originally uploaded by bobtiki. First test of using two Flip Video Ultra cameras to record stereo (3D) video. The cameras were gaffer-taped to a hard metal ruler with the lenses separated by three inches — more than a realistic intra-ocular distance, but I thought it might work out well to…