August 2005 – Something Odd!

String Tripod

string tripod – I might try this as I could tie the string to my small portable tripod quite easily!

Screensaver vs Movies

If you use mplayer to play your movies then add this line to ~/.mplayer/config to turn off Xscreensaver. Much better than hitting CTRL every few minutes!

# Write your default config options here!
stop-xscreensaver=1

Web Application Security Reviews

John Lim lists some of the requirements for an “enterprise” financial application. I’ve never gone to the lengths John has to pass such an audit but I can imagine it wasn’t easy!

Canon CPS 14

Canon CPS has been updated. Looks like a few good reads!

Fun Lovin' Criminals Play Cork

Fun Lovin’ Criminals will play in the Savoy, Patrick St. Cork on the 7th September.

Squeakland – computing for kids

Niall, who should know, says Squeakland is “incredible”. I haven’t tried it myself, but it’s described as “media authoring tool” and is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Unix! Check the “What is Squek?” page for more.

30 years ago this was a fantasy about how children would learn science and math some day on their own notebook personal “Dynabooks”. After many years of building and testing these ideas, today this scenario is real.

What is RAW?

What is Raw? This article goes in-depth into what raw photography is about and explains the advantage of having 12 bits of colour versus 8 bits in a jpeg file.

Panoramic Photos of Ireland

Here are a few shots from around Cork and Kerry which I have stitched together using Autostitch.
Click on any image for a larger version although the larger images have been saved at low quality setting to save on file space and bandwidth.