Inverted Reality

Yes, it’s boob-shaped candy. Gotta love em!!

Earlier I wrote about how I upgraded the hdd in my wife’s Macbook Pro from 80GB to 320GB. Well I recently sold the machine, upgrading to the 13″ MBP. I kept the 320GB disk and decided it would be great in one of the PS3’s, especially since running the PlayTV tuner which really sucks up valuable PS3 hard disk space.

The disk swap was easy. Go to the Settings, System, Backup. Do a backup to a spare external USB disk (fat32)

Remove the cover from the bottom of your PS3, use a philips screwdriver to undo the sliding chassis, remove the drive, it’s pretty simple.

Once replaced, do a Restore from the same settings menu above. It could take a while depending how much stuff you have on your PS3. When done, it will be just like it was before, but… with more capacity. NICE! enjoy it

I was really impressed with my wife’s unibody Macbook 13″ so I bought a 13″ Macbook Pro. It’s nice, the screen is nice, it’s fast. Going from an old 15″ Macbook Pro, to this, big difference to be honest.

Glad they put firewire back. Really need it for my video camera (Canon HV30)

Looking forward to some productivity!

So, I bought a “PlayTV” from the UK. It is basically a PVR, it records free-to-air television to your Playstation 3 hard disk. Nice.

I’ve only had a quick play, the EPG is nice, and it works. Recorded a show to disk, worked fine.

I’m going to need to upgrade the hard disk in the PS3 to deal with the recordings I think!

A few weeks ago Melissa and I purchased a new Macbook from her uni.. a 2.4Ghz Unibody Macbook. It’s nice, and it’s fast, and it’s quicker than her old 1.8Ghz Macbook Pro.

2 weeks later, Apple released new Macbook’s again and pulled the Macbook 13″ unibody into the “Pro” line.

The update isn’t really worth getting upset about, it’s nice to know Apple are updating their products regularly.

I’m now using Melissa’s Macbook Pro to replace the old G4 Mac Mini I was using, until I decide to buy a brand new Mac. I guess I’ll at least wait for Snow Leopard to be released!

 Latest purchase. Story is, I upgraded the hard disk in the Macbook Pro (80GB) to a new Seagate Mentus 7200rpm 320GB drive. It’s much faster. The old 80GB drive went into this enclosure to use as a ‘backup’ until the system is all sorted.. It’s a SATA enclosure, it has a usb interface, it’s dead easy to open (screwless) and install the hard disk, it’s literally a 30 second excersize. It cost me approx $25 AUD, I give it the thumbs up. See gallery below, including XBench test.

I has a big storage device!

Yeah! You know it. So I was talking about it before. How I needed a bad azz storage device for all my pr0n documents. Well meet TROGDOR. TROGDOR is a bad azz character as invented by Strongbad. He’s got a beefy arm! No seriously. TROGDOR is my new QNAP TS-639 Pro network attached storage device (NAS). He currently has three 1.5TB western digital hard disk’s inside, and is hungry for more! He is currently configured in RAID5 and has 2.7TB of usable space (currently 1TB remaining). He happily accepts more disks and can RAID capacity expand and RAID level migrate!

I’ll probably go to the full six disk’s in the next few months and migrate the array from RAID5 to RAID6 for two-disk redundancy. Booyah!

Get the low down from the QNAP link above.

Happy times!

Last year I sold my Macbook Pro, in anticipation of new models. The new models came… I still haven’t replaced my old MBP. Why? Well I wanted the new Macbook, only, it doesn’t come with firewire, I need firewire for my Canon HV30 video camera. FAIL Apple.

So I was looking at a new Macbook Pro. That got me thinking, why not go for the 17″ MBP, the new unibody boasts excellent battery life, and it also has the FullHD resolution display (as per the previous model). The only problem is, it’s a $6,000 machine here in Australia. Can I justify the expense? yes…. when I’m more cashed up.

In the meantime, can you believe I’ve been using an old G4 PPC Mac Mini? I’m talking 1.42Ghz, 1GB ram, 80GB hdd. It’s so old! but you know what, I’ve got leopard on it and it’s working fine. Well, fine for E-mail, web, and some basic tasks anyway!

It’s amazing how these old machines can still be put to use, especially if it’s for basic tasks.

I sure do miss the power to be able to edit and encode HD video’s! I’ll probably be buying a new Macbook Pro in a week or so, if things go as planned.

it sucks

That’s right, it’s a dust buster on roids. This baby rips it up. It’s perfect for when your 13 month old daughter curve-ball’s her biscuits on to the floor. PERFECT! Or when your cat owns a mouse and leaves the intestines on the pavers to go all crusty.

I rate this unit, it’s rated…. wanna see a super awesome video review? Give me something! (or dare me)

OH, by the way, it’s a Dyson DC16 Handheld Vacuum Cleaner

How about this?

Unlock the hidden features of your Canon camera! How about RAW shooting? Altering video bitrates/compression, DOF calculator, and more?

I tried it on our IXUS 75, works perfectly, it’s really amazing what this camera can now do. I’m impressed!

Note that it’s not a hacked firmware, it’s merely an ‘add-on’ which is as easy as putting some files in the root of your SD card, loading the firmware and using it.