I installed the “WP Retina 2x” plug-in, excited to use and abuse my iPad 3’s extra pixels (and those of any future Retina Macs I might acquire). Unfortunately, two hours later, while it’s mostly working it’s basically requiring too much manual fixing to be viable. The first problem was that it uses the PHP variable… Read more
I like Aperture so far, mostly. I’ve even managed to memorise a significant fraction of its obscure keyboard shortcuts and combos. Enough to get around it and make it appear I have some idea what I’m doing. Unfortunately, Aperture relies on Mac OS X’s built-in RAW support (as does every other imaging app, which is… Read more
While we were camping I wanted to try some star photography. I had borrowed Chris’s tripod specially for the occasion, so I was all excited and set to go. I hadn’t initially thought of doing any astronomical work with the camera, but I chanced upon a discussion of it, with some example images from old… Read more
You know you’re old when you have aches mostly all over, and you want a higher chair and one of those desks with a under-hung keyboard tray. Ugh. That and voice dictation that actually works. Siri, I love you, but you suck.
For a few months now I’ve been eyeing off DSLRs. I’m not sure, now, what triggered it… I think just a couple of events, like Jen & Vante’s wedding, where I wanted for a better camera than my little Sony DSC-TX10. While it’s a great little camera, and was totally worth having for Hawaii alone,… Read more
Le sigh. It’s that time again. When I’m going to be on the road for a while and I’m going to need more than 2 GiB of data, and more functionality than what my iPad can offer. I’m going to need tethering. Unfortunately I have iOS 6 on my iPhone. So far as I can… Read more
Only a few pages into the iOS Security document released by Apple today, and already there’s a notable error. It states: Apps can’t share data directly with each other; sharing can be implemented only by both the receiving and sending apps using custom URL schemes, or through shared keychain access groups. False, at least partially.… Read more