I had one day to spend in London when waiting for my next flight. The city is quite enormous, so a day’s worth of urban hiking allowed me to only see a fraction of this gargantuan city. My trek led me from Victoria Station to Blackfriar’s Bridge and back. Along the way I did visit some sites, including Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus. This was my first attempt at photography with a ND4 filter. I was quite happy with the results, and I did avoid sky highlights. As you can see in my first picture, all of the blue in the sky did turn out correctly. Once again, I used my 18-55 and 70-200 lens with my XSi.
A Day In London
7 02 2010
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Categories : Photography
A Day In Vancouver
21 01 2010These photos were taken in late January, 2010 with my XSi. I used my 18-55 and 70-200 lens during this day. Some of my pictures have severe highlights in the sky. I learned that this anomaly can be rectified with a ND filter. In the span of about 8 hours I hiked through most of the interesting areas in Vancouver, and took Sky Train a few times. After my urban exploration I got a feel for the city, but I did not really experience any of Vancouver’s attractions. I had to unfortunately leave on the same day of my arrival, but I shall return.
Vancouver Airport
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A Day At The Southland Dog Park
13 01 2010A few pictures taken a the Southland Dog Park in Calgary with my Rebel XSi. Some of the pictures were taken with a polarizing filter. I mainly used my 18-55 mm lens and my 55-250 mm lens. After reviewing the photos from this day I returned my 55-250 mm lens and exchanged it for the 70-200 L lens – I have no regrets.
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The Rogers HTC Magic Ion HoFo Community ROM
15 07 2009
I’ve just made a new HoFo Ion ROM, which is based on nk02’s modification’s. The Ion ROM is a special ROM that was given to developers by Google – it is the fastest Android ROM out there now. The best part about this ROM for Rogers users is that there is no time stamp issue in this ROM. Other than the speed, don’t expect anything special. One thing that you will notice is that you will not have an “H” in your status bar when using 3G HSPA data, but your Magic is in fact transferring data at HSPA speeds.
Here are some of the changes that I’ve made to nk02’s lite version:
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Tags: Android, Community, Google, HoFo, Howard Forums, Ion, nk02, Rogers, ROM
Categories : Android
Get Sipdroid to work with any SIP provider on your Android phone
11 07 2009
Sipdroid allows you to use Android phone with almost any SIP provider. The calls are crystal clear even over a 3G network, likewise for a WLAN connection. The best part about Sipdroid is that it integrates into your phone, eliminating the need for a separate phone book. You simply use your Android contacts in the same way as if you were making a call over a cellular network. It’s really an amazing application that is stable and simple to use, with the potential to save you plenty of money.
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Tags: 3G, Android, pbxes.org, SIP, Sipdroid, smsdiscount.com
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The Rogers HTC Magic HoFo Community ROM
7 07 2009
Today I have created a new ROM for the HoFo community in the hope that it will be used as a seed for further development. All of the other ROM’s that I have tried had missing features or they were extremely buggy and power hungry. This ROM is based on the orginal Rogers ROM, so everything works and it is stable as the original. Enjoy!
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How To Set-Up Soft RAID (dmraid) in Linux Mint 6 (Felicia)
25 12 2008There are a countless number of dmraid tutorials on the internet that are over complicated and that do not apply to Linux Mint 6 (Felicia). Here I will show you in a few easy steps how to set-up dmraid using the Linux Mint 6 Live CD without any unnessessary frustration. The basis of my tutorial is the Ubuntu dmraid documentation and assumes that you are setting up RAID 0 or 1.
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Tags: 6, dmraid, fake, Felicia, Linux, Mint, RAID, soft, Ubuntu
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CheckGmail, Linux’s Blackberry
20 05 2008CheckGmail is the Blackberry of the Linux world that relatively is still unknown to most Linux users. Basically, CheckGmail is a task bar Gmail notifier primarily developed by Owen Marshall that makes checking email a task that doesn’t even require for you to actually check your mail most of the time. A click within CheckGmail is all that is needed. If for some reason you are wondering, CheckGmail works with the best and biggest email service – Gmail. The great thing about Gmail is that it works with any POP3 server, allowing you to consolidate your email accounts. You can even check your email on Gmail hosted domains and run multiple instances of CheckGmail if you have multiple Gmail accounts. Once you learn about this great application you will have another reason to switch to Linux. If you are already are on the Linux platform, you will probably install it after reading this review.
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Tags: CheckGmail, email, Gmail, Gtk2-Sexy, Labels, libcrypt, libsexy, Linux, notifier, POP3, Ubuntu
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How To Install Ubuntu 8.04 (9.10) On The Asus M50Sv-A1
19 05 2008Almost all of the hardware on the Asus M50Sv-A1 works out of the box after Ubuntu’s installation is complete. There are none the less a few tweaks that are needed to be performed and few drivers that are needed to be installed. The screens brightness can’t be increased, the Nvidia driver is not installed, the webcam driver is not installed, the fingerprint reader driver is not installed, the email LED is non-functional, the microphone is not enabled by default, the hard drive has a firmware glitch, and the speakers don’t mute when the headphones are plugged in. This short installation tutorial is intended to save you the time and grief associated with searching for each particular solution on the internet.
Comments in green reflect the changes required in Ubuntu 9.10.
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Tags: 8.04, 9.10, Asus, CheckGmail, driver, email LED, Envy, fingerprint reader, fprint, hard drive, Hardy Heron, libpam, Linux, load cycle, M50Sv-A1, microphone, Nvidia, Ubuntu, uvc, webcam
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