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CHDK

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I’ve had my Canon S3 IS camera for awhile now, and it’s a brilliant camera with lots of nifty little things, and buttons and this and that. It turns out beautiful images, esp macros. I really like it, and I’m 100% happy with it.

Harrison has showed me CHKD which has made me even more happier with my camera. CHDK is a firmware enhancement that was turn my camera into something even more better. I can now play games on my camera, and run scripts that make beautiful HDR images so much easier. I used a script to take 25 photos on the teddy you see to your right, and patched it together using photomatix. It even tells me the percentage of battery I had, something which was an annoyance on the old firmware.

I really like the new firmware, however I’m sure they can find more fun things to do with the cameras.

The installation is really simple, find a card reader, plop the two files onto the card, re insert card, go into play mode, press the mode button, press firmware update, put your hands on your head, spin around three times yelling “IMAFAG” and flap your arms like a chicken.

It’s that simple.

Album Art

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Collage of the album you can find in my iTunes Library. I made this with the help of a few programs and scripts. First off, getting the album art out of iTunes I used a script from Doug (for mac only I guess). I then pumped it into a nice use once chuck away app, Shape Collage. Upload to flickr, and rinse and repeat.

BTW with the help of zzap I bought flickr pro. Mainly because I’m using flickr for all my blog posts.

Sunset

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I just took this photo from our deck. It’s been raining for the last day and bit which has made it all cold, but I suppose I can forgive it, considering our beautiful of a sunset it was. I hate when you take photos of sunsets, how they never come out as nice as it looks. This one came out pretty damn close, so I’m fairly happy with it. I’m not sure if I should start using the wide shot mode on my camera or not, considering it’s the same lens and that, I gather it just cuts the top and bottom off the photo, it’d make it easier for making wallpapers though.

I also created a panorama shot of the sunset (view) using Calico. I tried using photoshop but it took my CPU and RAM, and left me with a garbled picture. It still hasn’t returned either. Calico is pretty nice software and is simple to use. I like it.

Onto other news, I’ve started using Plurk, for a bit to see what it is, how it works, and that. So far i’ve enjoyed it, and it is a step up from twitter, although it’s lacking features such as IM, free sms and API. I’m thinking of setting up a bot to relay messages between plurk and twitter just for me, so I can get the sms. Since it’s the holidays I might. My account should be linked in the side bar to your right sometime soon.