how to customise your iCade stick and buttons
I decided to replace the clunky loud stick and buttons in my iCade. It was a very straightforward process and the end results were well worth it, so I put together a guide on how to do it.
why you should install Alfred for Mac right now
Alfred is an elegant and crazy powerful launcher application for Mac OS X. If you use a Mac regularly, you should definitely try it because it will change how you use your computer.
a quick look at Cathode for Mac OS X
Cathode is a fun alternative to the Terminal utility for OS X. It replicates a variety of old-school CRT monitors, with a bunch of options and sound effects to play with.
Adventures in AppleTV streaming: switching from XBMC to Firecore’s ATV Flash
I’ve had a lot of issues with XBMC on my jailbroken AppleTV 2. I tried Firecore’s ATV Flash app and preferred it.
my mostly positive review of Hipstamatic Disposable
Hipstamatic Disposable brings some fresh ideas to the iPhone photo app model and is a delight to use, but some of the in-app purchases may rub you up the wrong way, and there’s a nasty bug going round.
How to replace Instagram 2.0 with Instagram 1.x.x
A lot of people feel like Instagram 2.0 ruined all the filters. Here’s a way to get your old version of the app back.
Instagram 2.0 review: Insta-grumble
Instagram has been my favourite iPhone photo app for about a year now. It doesn’t have the nebulous wealth of filter options of PictureShow or the ubiquitous Hipstamatic but it’s simple, effective, social and fun; the dozen or so filters are varied and distinct; it includes a tilt-shift effect; it exports with just one tap [...]
Migrating from PixelPost to WordPress
I’ve decided that I’m going to migrate my photoblog away from PixelPost and onto WordPress. I use WP for my this blog and my portfolio and have got comfortable using it. It also has excellent customisability and solid support and isn’t likely to lose that any time soon. The same sadly can’t be said of [...]
Another way to stream to XBMC on an ATV2 from a Lion Mac
On my AppleTV 2, media sharing to XBMC was broken by OS X Lion. I found another way to solve this problem, and this one’s free.
How to stream to XBMC on an AppleTV2 from a Lion Mac using Playback
XBMC for AppleTV 2 stopped connecting to my media when I updated to Lion. I found a workaround using an app called Playback.
One way to fix an iTunes ‘Error 1013′
Last night I was updating my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3 (from 4.2.1) and it got almost all the way through until it sought to verify the update with Apple and failed with error code 1013. The support document said this was likely to do with security software preventing iTunes from connecting to Apple but [...]
if you like Hipstamatic, you’ll love these
There’s dozens of retro processing apps in the App Store, but Hipstamatic has captured the ol’ zeitgeist and it’s great that so many people are interested in it because it’s a cool wee photo app. I love it – to the extent that I created a huge matrix of all the lens/film combinations possible at [...]
my plastic eye – the ‘hipstamatic’ look for Photoshop
iPhone photo apps have sparked a surge in popularity of retro camera styles, emulating the imperfect plastic lenses and saturated colours of Lomo cameras in particular, and for months now the regular number one photo app has been Hipstamatic (which I wrote about here). There are others – I was a big fan of Camerabag [...]
iPhoto libraries and Dropbox – a warning!
You may be considering syncing your iPhoto libraries between various machines using Dropbox. I tried this recently and it works, but there are some serious caveats, that if you ignore could result in wiping out a lot of your iPhoto changes. Skip to the last paragraph if you want the short version, but for those [...]
pictureshow – stealing hipstamatic’s crown
The iPhone photo app market is saturated with apps to replicate the retro look. It’s probably a fad that should be on it’s last legs, but the apps keep coming and truth be told I do still like the look when it suits the image so purists be damned! For the last few months I’ve [...]
my latest iPhone toy: hipstamatic
(UPDATE: if you’re reading this you might be interested in a Photoshop action I wrote to sort of emulate the look of these retro camera styles – have a read of this article after you’re done here. Okay, as you were!) I recently went off iPhone photography for a while. I’d set myself the goal [...]
these are a few (more) of my favourite things
Who doesn’t love using cool stuff to make their day to day survival more pleasing and less hassle? I’m sure I’m not the only one who’ll trawl the interwebz looking for cool stuff to buy or install, in the name of streamlining or at least aesthetically enhancing my workflow or daily routine, or just because [...]
how to sync your Macs with Dropbox – for free!
Happy Christmas, everyone! I hope you all got what you wanted and/or what you deserved. ;) My Christmas treat to myself was to spend the evening geeking out with my Dropbox setup. It’s a free service that basically allows you to keep certain files constant across multiple machines. You create an account, download software to [...]
these are a few of my favourite… iPhone photo apps – part 1
Featuring:
- four excellent iPhone photo apps
- a review and guide to each one
- dozens of screenshots and photos
- links to their App Store pages
you have to start somewhere
I’m on another short film doing stills this weekend – another freebie but I’m fortunate enough to have another stream of income right now so I can afford to do a few freebies for friends. It’s a great source of experience and gets me some more shots for the portfolio. Plus, in the past these [...]
mac stuff for photographers
If you’re a photographer and you use a Mac, chances are you’ve probably already heard of the vast majority of these, but it’s still a pretty good list so I really ought to link to it before I lose too many readers. The Ultimate Mac Setup for Photographers is a nice collection of apps that [...]
adventures in softboxing: sunshine and daisies
Featuring:
- off-camera flash lighting with a softbox
- experiments with white balance and gelling
- daisies through a wide angle lens
- hints and tips and where I went wrong
fotomoto: prints and e-cards made e-asy (and 50% cheaper!)
A few photoblogs I visit, such as Daily Dose of Imagery and Chromasia, have recently added the Fotomoto toolbar to their front page and seeing as it’s pretty damn good, so have I. It’s currently free and requires nothing but plopping the Javascript into the HTML code for your photoblog installation. There’s also a little [...]
OMG! iPhone gallery updated!
I wasn’t completely happy with the iPhone gallery I started a few weeks ago. Two reasons really – wasn’t aesthetically pleasing any more, and had an annoying (none-existent) content management system that meant I had to re-upload the whole gallery every time I wanted to change one picture. I changed over to the latest version [...]