I used the Olympus E-420 for a few days, but the pointy viewfinder, though a minor thing, just bothered me way too much. So I decided to finally get the Sigma DP1, one of the first things I blogged about. The DP1 has its own faults of which the speed is probably its worst. Every [...]
I broke down and bought the E-420 last night. So far, it’s a sweet little camera. Everything is smaller on it, almost 3/4 scale. The 14-42mm looks like it’s about the size of a standard 50mm. Remember in the 60s and 70s when Olympus was making those small SLRs like the OM [...]
I’ve wanted this camera for a while. I’m not sure why I haven’t posted about it earlier. Maybe because I thought I already have. I hate when I do that. My interest was resparked when I found it on sale at Circuit City. Of course this one does not have the 25mm pancake. Anyways, who [...]
Netflix just released a new $100 box by Roku that will allow you to watch Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” movies on your TV. I wish Apple would allow this on their Apple TVs, so I don’t have to buy another peripheral. Maybe iTunes Music Store should offer a subscription based service for videos. As a side [...]
I set up my Super T-Amp this weekend. It was attached to my PowerMac via a really old Onkyo USB DAC. The speakers of choice for this setup were the $40 a pair Polk Audio R15s. I marveled at the sound and my cheapness. By the way, I plugged my Super T-Amp into my [...]
I was having a few problems getting the Extreme to recognize my Epson 7600 printer on the network. It worked at first, but disappeared when I tried printing from it again. Mind you, I am not connecting the printer to the USB connection of the Extreme. The printer has an ethernet print server card installed [...]
My new want is the MacBook Pro. I currently own a MacBook which is a great computer, but as you all know if you really want to be cool, you need the Pro version. Whenever I see people with the MacBook Amateurs, I honestly think, “Wow, that guy is not very serious. He only has [...]
April 22, 2008 – 11:24 am
The first thing I did after charging the SD1000s battery, which actually charges pretty quickly (maybe an hour or two), was install CHDK. The instructions are available at the CHK Wiki. Also a lot of info is on the CHDK Forum. I’ll give a quick summary of what I did below. This is from a [...]
On Thursday, Fry’s had a sale on the all silver Canon SD1000, so I guess I had to pick one up. It is so cool with it’s block like shape. It’s smaller than I expected. I also picked up a Lowepro Napoli 5 leather case. It fits perfectly. It was a little snug at first, [...]
A few more things I’ve noticed:
Time Machine over Airport Extreme with a MacBook Core Duo (only wireless g) is very slow. I unloaded a bunch of pictures a few days ago. It’s been trying to backup the files since, but keeps failing because of the amount of time it needs. I guess that’s the nature [...]
