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Posted in Life, Reviews, Technology on Oct 10th, 2006
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!About a week ago I received my replacement p910i. I have read rave reviews about it and was mildly excited what I finally held it in my [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Reviews, Technology on Oct 10th, 2006
For my recent job in Germany, I knew that a better case for carrying the tripod was necessary. Normally, one would use a rigid plastic housing, but they weigh in at about 6kg, are difficult to transport - and are butt ugly. So I did some research, which lead to the Israeli company Kata, [...]
Posted in Life on Oct 8th, 2006
I´ve been away a couple of days (with no chance to blog), working for a CNBC show. We were filming at a mayor ip telephony company, and I was quite amazed.
First, within just a few years they have managed to get a relatively geeky technology in mainstream use (already over 20% of households now have [...]
Posted in Humor on Oct 8th, 2006
Years ago, we were shooting a PR film about an almost on line nuke power plant. We were loading onto the reactor’s fuelling floor (where we had to step over these long wood boxes, only to find out these are the shipping cases for the reactor’s “plutonium rods”!), every item, and I mean every item [...]
Posted in Reviews, Technology on Oct 2nd, 2006
Just got my shiny p990i, and was very disappointed to find out that it does not sync with OSX. Surfing the web, I found some workarounds. These are:
Address book
Go into OSX address book, open the preferences and the vCard pane. Here change the format to 2.1. Highlight the addresses you want to copy to your [...]
Posted in Life on Oct 2nd, 2006
For the past three days I have been in Germany, working on a commercial in Hamburg. Well, I thought it was one commercial, but it turned out to be three commercials. To make things interesting, one (the main) commercial was shot on 4:3, while the other two were in widescreen. This meant keeping mentally alert, [...]