things that only i could care about

AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II

AtomFilms – Animator vs. Animation II: http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/animator_vs_animation_2
Superb flash animation: noisy and with so much action it’s almost impossible to take in on the first viewing. If you haven’t already seen it, do take time to watch Animator vs. Animation first.
Via Userfriendly.org

The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.

Botox face: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/892.html
It’s almost as if they read my last post: cool – I get my very own personal comic writers !
Or maybe not, but I certainly prefer my initial conclusion.

nothing says ‘I love you’ quite like…

Amazon. What a wonderfully crafted email they just sent my way (straight from the lads’ mag marketing department), entitled:
Great gifts from £5.99 for her this Christmas at Amazon.co.uk
There were the usual laughable excuses for presents, but they saved the best ’till last:

Wow. Now that’s the way to a memorable christmas morning:
“Merry Xmas darling. [...]

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe

Matrix Transform: http://xkcd.com/c184.html
Well, it made me laugh this morning but I think it merely confirms that even with so many camera posts lately I haven’t stopped being an all-round geek…

four free aperture 1.5 themes

Not new, but (finally) updated versions of the previous four themes for the new location of the web themes in Aperture 1.5 (and 1.5.1).
This version also has a faster installer that simply assumes the program lives in /Applications, and so the whole thing is over in less time than the .dmg file takes to open [...]

front-focussing ? back-focussing ? how about doh-focussing ?

Really, this obsession with MTF charts is undoubtedly unhealthy for the wallet but it can also be so all-consuming it confuses solving the most obvious of problems. After getting annoyed with the auto-focus on the 350D and going back to the joys of a ‘proper’ manual lens (Zuiko 135mm with EOSOM adaptor) I had [...]

aperture 1.5.1 hack

It’s update time, which means hacking the minimum requirements again. More details on how to actually change the numbers are in the Aperture 1.5 post and comments, but this time I only seemed to need one change to the binary:
0xb8e8: 40 9E 00 88 -> 48 00 00 88
and the Info.plist minimum memory requirement [...]