Inverted Reality

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Month: May, 2009

Philips 2.5″ Hard Disk Enclosure Review

 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 [...]

I has storage device

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 [...]

I’m still using a G4 Mac

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. [...]

It really 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 [...]

Unlock your Canon camera!

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 [...]