Category Archives: Blog
Project 365 #1 – Peeking
At Antonia’s suggestion, I’ve decided to give ‘Project 365‘ a go, despite missing the opportunity to start on the 1st of January. You might be familiar with the concept – take 1 photo every single day and share it. People … Continue reading
Crumpler Cupcake 3000 Camera bag review
About 2 months ago I bought a Crumpler Cupcake 3000 camera bag on Amazon for my new Canon EOS 600D. Having used it for a while, here are my thoughts: Pros There’s plenty of space for the camera and 1 extra … Continue reading
Deploying Rails 3 apps to a subdirectory with the asset pipeline
When precompiling assets on deployment Rails has no idea where your application is hosted. If you are running your application on a subdirectory all of your image-url directives in your CSS for asset images will construct incorrect URLs. The solution … Continue reading
Best of the Week: 8th July 2012
I haven’t given it a try yet, but the new SQL penetration-testing tool sqlmap looks both awesome and scary. Check out the video for a demo of it being combined with Metasploit to exploit and run a payload on an insecure … Continue reading
Transcend 16GB vs. SanDisk Extreme 32GB SDHC Card
Following on from my Raspberry Pi SD Card benchmark I happen to now be the owner of both the Transcend Class 10 16GB SDHC Card and the SanDisk Extreme (Class 10) 32GB SDHC Card. I thought I’d informally benchmark them both given … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi SD card benchmark
Another update: Sebastian Sjoholm very kindly sent the results of him benchmarking his own Raspberry Pi with both a 4GB SD card (Samsung) and a 60GB OCZ Vertex SSD connected via a USB to SATA adapter. On firmware 346337 he … Continue reading
Best of the Week – Peace Pagodas, Little Printers, and Google Glasses
Happy Easter everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the long-weekend if you get one. The weather has been fairly shoddy here but @antoniamoreno and I still managed to take a quick visit to Willen Lake, where the first Peace Pagoda built … Continue reading
Best of the week (end of March)
I’ve swapped back to DuckDuckGo this week after hearing news that its traffic is sky-rocketing. I used to like it but gradually drifted back to Google; it’ll be interesting to see how I get on now with the new UI … Continue reading
Best of the week (week ending 25th March)
I was really surprised by the news that you can now share Hipstamatic photos via Instagram. The two products aren’t identical, but it suggests Instagram is thinking about being more of a generic photo-sharing service. However Instagram is massively lacking … Continue reading
Best of the week (Week ending 18th March)
Tweetbot is the first (I think?) iOS client to implement the Twitter Streaming API, ahead of Twitter themselves. Only available for iPad on Wifi, it allows you to see new tweets posted in realtime. Sparrow have released their new iPhone client. … Continue reading