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Backyard Cinema

prosthetichead — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:30:59 +0000

I’m hosting a movie night this week but to put a bit of a spin on it I’m going to have it under the pergola in the backyard! hopefully the weather is good the forecast is sunny with a high of 27°C and a low of 16°C so should be wicked.

The plan is to setup my old projector and use a large white bed sheet as the screen. I have punched a hole in each corner of the bed sheet and put a length of thin tent rope in each hole. I had a worry that the sheet would tear at the holes once it has been pulled tight so I have used thick duct tape on each corner also to reenforce them.

The Backyard Cinema Screen

Above is a picture of the screen up. Latter tonight or tommorow night I’m going to test the projecter on the screen and see if I can get the entire system working before Saturday. last thing I want is to have everyone over and find projecter dose not work or something stupid like that.

youTube HD videos

prosthetichead — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:10:14 +0000

I found out today that youTube has added high definition video support. I uploaded a few videos to try it out and so far I’m very impressed. Compared to the free version of Vimeo it has a lot going for it. Maximum file size limit is 1gig per file compared to Vimeo’s 500mb per week and you can upload an unlimited number of HD videos compared to Vimeo’s 1 HD video a week.

My youTube channel is here subcribe to my channel!

Tomorrow I will be posting some instructions on how to render video in Sony Vegas Pro 8 so that they will show up as a high definition video on youTube.

Steve Flips

prosthetichead — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:25:21 +0000

Steve and I very hung over from the night before where watching a Bam Margera video I think it was called “where the fuck is Santa”. Once it finished Steve had a urge to do some flips so I quickly grabbed the video camera and recorded him doing the flips.

I was bored last night so I edited the video and set it to some music. I like the way it turned out even though its very short. Its not bad for just playing in Vegas 8 while watching Death Race on TV.

Steve Flips. SlowMo Original from prosthetichead on Vimeo.

The Sky Approves

prosthetichead — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:18:19 +0000

On Monday night I was happily watching Top Gear on TV when my mobile phone started ringing. A quick look at the mobile’s screen quickly told me it was Josh, “Wonder what Josh wants” I thought to myself as I pressed the answer button. “Hey dude whats up?” I ask “DUDE, Go Outside!!” Josh quickly replys. Confused by this request, I get up off the couch and proceed to the front door. Before I open the door I grow curious of Josh’s demand and ask “Why do I need to go outside?” to which Josh answers “Just go out the back!! and look at the sky”.

I make my way to the back of the house and stand on the back lawn I look up at the sky and instantly burst into laughter! “DUDE, Oh my god the Sky is smiling! that’s Awesome!”. Impressed with the sky’s sudden display of emotion I quickly grabbed my camera to take this video!

the sky approves from prosthetichead on Vimeo

Working on Something Big

prosthetichead — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:07:53 +0000

I’m currently in the process of editing some videos and doing a full face lift to the site. I’m going to be steering the direction of the site to more video content. Hopefully it all comes along and works how I have it pictured in my head. I will be using Revver for most videos and Vimeo for the larger and the more high quality videos. Drop a message in the comments if you know of any better video hosting services.

I have been thinking about doing this for a long time and now that I have a high quality digital video camara I can look at making it a reality!

Hacking your iPod with Rockbox 3

prosthetichead — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:22:06 +0000

Me with my just updated iPod

I had not used my iPod for almost 6 months and after next weekend I have a reason to use my iPod again but I had a problem. I have in that time of iPod neglect dumped iTunes as my music player/manager so I had no way of getting my new songs onto it without major hassles and flaky foobar plugins.

I decided it was time to give Rockbox another go. I had previously used Rockbox a while ago and did not like it and had a lot of random problems but I have to say Rockbox has changed a lot since then. What I was most impressed with was how easy it was to setup now. Simply download the automated setup, connect the iPod to your computer and you are away.

The defult GUI of Rockbox is well to put it bluntly crap compared to the original firmware and even with skins dose not improve that much. Any issues with the GUI though go out the window when you can finaly play Ogg media files and Doom on your iPod.

I recomend giving Rockbox another swing and seeing if the new version 3 fixes any problem you had with the older versions. If you have never heard of Rockbox but wish to dump iTunes for any of the much better music players/managers avalable have a look into Rockbox 3 it just may make you like your old iPod again!

Rockbox can be downloaded from the Rockbox website

Apple and Their Dirty Services on my PC

prosthetichead — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:25:21 +0000

Today bored at work I noticed a service on my laptop running called ##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## what is this I thought, my first idea was it could be something bad like a virus or some malware why else would it have such a nonsense name. Opening the properties of the service I then noticed it was Apples Bonjour Service but I had no Apple programs on my computer anymore why would some strangely named service be still running on my PC?

Turns out this service is what seems to make iTunes network sharing of songs work and replaced the old iTunes Helper process and if you have recently uninstalled iTunes (like I had) it may still be running on your PC too.

To get rid of it is simple although not just a matter of uninstalling it like it should be.

First open CMD and type in “C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe” -remove
if you are running 64 bit windows it will be in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Bonjour”
Open the folder C:\Program Files\Bonjour\ in windows explorer and rename the file mdnsNSP.dll to mdnsNSP.old
restart your PC
delete the C:\Program Files\Bonjour\ folder

Why this service isnt just removed automaticly when you uninstall iTunes is beyond me but thats Apple for you.

Email Photos to Facebook

prosthetichead — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:48:48 +0000

I worked out a very cool feature of Facebook today, Emailing photos to your Facebook profile.

I get free emails on my mobile phone plan so I wondered if there was a way of sending photos to my account using an email like Picasa Web Albums allows. After a bit of hunting I workout there is an option to do this is very easy to setup.

First send an Email with a photo attached to “mobile@facebook.com”. After about 1 minute you will recive an email back from Facebook instructing you to goto http://facebook.com/mobile to claim your phone using the supplyed code. Enter the code into the page and thats it you can now email photos to your profile.

Its the Final Count Down!!

prosthetichead — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:45:43 +0000

Soon I will be a married man! Its all very exciting I know my relationship with Nicole will be no different then the day before seeing as we have been living together for like 6 years but its all still VERY exciting! I think I’m mostly looking forward to going away for a week to stay in one of my most favorite places for the honeymoon!

I think I’m a little more excited now also as I was best man in my best friends wedding recently so that really got me pumped now for mine and how much fun its going to be.

Posts will probobly be very sparce for a few weeks as the wedding gets closer but after its all done I have some more news to share!

Toshiba Portege M200 Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Repair Centre

prosthetichead — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:05:02 +0000

Well I got the Toshiba Portege M200 working want to know how?

Took it to a Toshiba Repairer and got it reimaged for $66. I know I felt dirty doing it but at least it works now.

It was a nightmare though really I do not recommend ever getting a notebook without any optical drive not unless you know it will work with a majority of USB drives on boot.