I’ve been watching The Art of Photography podcast, which recently featured a great piece of software called Sofortbild to tether my Nikon D60 to the Mac. I was able to use it to put together this short sunset timelapse video, which is pretty cool:
I’ve been contemplating a PVR for a while. Lack of funds and partner buy-in have sort of left me dead in the water, but P. recently saw a friend’s TiVo and was intrigued enough to suggest getting one (eventually).
Things have gone quiet on that front, but have since done some digging. Basic TiVo is cheap enough, but extra features (like playback on your PC via ethernet) are $100+ addons, and when I totted up the cost, it looked like I could build my own for the same price and get complete flexibility.
And now Sony’s gone and thrown a spanner in my works by announcing the PlayTV is coming to Australia. I still need to check the full feature set (can it record while gaming, network playback, etc), this would kill two birds with one stone: I was also looking to get a PS3 this Christmas.
At full retail price, the PS3/PlayTV combo comes to $670. If I were to build my PVR, I’d be looking at $1200 for the hardware (many hours of making it work just right) plus $500 for the PS3. This could save me potentially $1000, so I’m definitely going to check it out.
This may do what nobody has been failing to achieve for at least a year now: get me to buy a PS3 😉
I’m starting to get a hang of the frameworks I’ve chosen, and they’re starting to fit into my general design. I’m beginning by working on the site administration side of things: the basics of the module framework are in place, along with a module to add, edit, and delete pages of text (and HTML) for display on the website.
When Google Wave was first announced I (like probably every other tech-minded gamer) immediately started seeing its possibility as a play-by-chat medium. Unfortunately, that thought took a back seat to other more pressing concerns, even after I got my own invite to the preview.
That all changed when Robin D. Laws posted on his blog some thoughts about the whole shebang. Ignoring his whining about technology moving too quickly for him (keeping up is still optional; people still play RPGs face to face), he links to a couple of good articles.
So, with my university studies done for the year, I have some free time on my hands. In an attempt to chronicle my efforts a bit more completely, I will be posting about them here. Some will (hopefully) appeal to you, others won’t. I may be tackling concepts which are familiar to some of you, and I would appreciate your input on those. More details below the jump.