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• Tutorial: Shooting a Timelapse

  Posted December 17, 2008 // Tagged as Tutorial // 7 Comments

  I couple of days ago, I posted a timelapse that I took with my D80. At this current time, the D80 has no intervalometer settings – this means that it cannot pictures every so many seconds, fail? So, we need an alternative to take a timelapse.

  How I do it:

  I use Nikon’s Camera Control Pro 2 software to control my camera – it’s a hefty press tag for a simple tether application. Download the free trail, it’s for macs & pc’s! Camera Control is availible for not just only the D80, it works on most of the D range!  D3, D2Xs, D2X, D2Hs, D700, D300, D200, D100, D80, D70s, D70, D60, D50, D40X, D40!

  I tell the application,  I want to do a timelapse, and set it to take a picture every 2 seconds until I stop it. [Example Screenshot]

  

  Once you have finished taking your timelapse, we want to snap them together. I use quicktime pro, as it is the only application I know that does this;

  

   
  It’ll ask for how many frames per second, I set mine to 6; but the choice is yours. I will generate your clip, now you need to save it. File>Save>Self Contained Movie. Now you are free to do what ever you want to with the movie. I add music to mine normally, some nice background music.
  
  Timelapse(s) from James Bayliss on Vimeo.

• Download files with SSH

  Posted December 11, 2008 // Tagged as Tutorial // 8 Comments

  Occasionally, my ISP (BT) does lack in connection speed. It’s not necessarily their fault, but one of the links or bridges connecting is slow. I was downloading some large mixes that a friend had done on his server, but I was only getting 40KB/s on a 200mb file, slow. I thought about it, and was wondering how I can use my dreamhost server to my advantage. I asked a couple of friends, and a mate, William told me about the SSH function, wget.

  WGET tells the server to download a file of another server. As my dreamhost server sits in a huge data center with huge pipes hooked up to it I can hit speeds that I can only dream of. I know that I can hit high speeds when downloading files from my server, roughly 700KB/s – which is nearly topping out my home internet connection. Once I told the server what to download, i was hitting file transfer rates on 10MB/s on some (server to server).

  So how do we go about downloading files then?

  First we need to SSH into our server;

  user@example.com  - then we enter our password once prompted.

  once we are logged in – simply type

  “wget [insertthefilelocation]”

  

  After our files have been downloading, simply log into your server via ftp and downloading your files.

• Tutorial: SSH Socks Proxy – Being Secure Online

  Posted November 13, 2008 // Tagged as Tutorial // 5 Comments

  Occasionally, some services like us to be in the presence of America to use their service, or our internet service is down maybe. Maybe your on a unknown wifi channel and want to give yourself a bit more security.

  Eh? A proxy in otherwords?

  Yes, that’s essentially really what we are doing – for those are confused by a proxy – it’s the middleman between you and the location that you are trying to reach.

  Today, i’m going to show you how to use SOCKS, or a SSH Proxy. Now, you will need a web host for this, and it needs to have SSH support for this. I know MediaTemple & Dreamhost do – check with your host just to make sure.

  We’ll be doing on this a mac and using Firefox as our browser

  So first we need to open the terminal – for those who don’t know where that is:

  Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal

  Now we need your username and address of your server.

  ssh -ND 9999 you@example.com

  Now, of course you replace this with your credentials which you should. It will then ask you for your password, you should also know this too. For dreamhost – this is the same as your default FTP details.

  After you have entered your password, it will not print anything else – it’s job is done and ready.

  Setting up FireFox to work with your SSH Proxy.

  

  If everything looks like that, then were good to go! Hit ok, and so if you can load the start of FireFox.

  I hope you find this helpful, it’s works for me and I find it useful at WiFi hotspots where sometimes you don’t feel secure. If you have another medthod, please leave a comment or send me an email.

• How To: Canon LBP2900i on a Mac

  Posted November 6, 2008 // Tagged as Tutorial // No Comments

  A while back my mother bought a Canon Mono Laser printer to print of some business documents and what not. She no longer requires the printer and has passed it down to me – ace!

  As awesome as It sounds, no mac drivers are supplied by Canon – ouch, that’s a punch to the system. Time to do some hackery and do some working out.

  After some research, turns out that Canon supply a driver for the model above mine, so – it has CAPT driver which allows the computer to process the documents and send them to the printer. By editing the CAPT files, I was able to get the printer working. It’s a bit of a notch job, but it works fine with no fiddling really necessary.

  ! I am not liable for damage to a) you b) your printer c) your computer – your trying this at your own risk !

  We need to download the CAPT drivers for Leopard first – here.

  Then we need add our own magical files to the mix – download them here

  put “my” CAPT folder into: Library/Printers/Canon

  Restart, and have a test with printing a simple document/picture.

  I hope this works for you, i’m sorry if it doesn’t!

• Sharing internet to your Xbox 360, (For Mac’s!)

  Posted September 12, 2008 // Tagged as Gaming, Tutorial, Xbox 360 // 2 Comments

  If your like me and to cheap to fork out for the price-tag-hefty wireless adapter for the xbox 360. Sharing your internet through your mac via the ethernet port is the easiest and cheapest way to go.

  Overview

  1)Start Internet Sharing

  2)In Terminal, type cp /etc/bootpd.plist /tmp/bootpd.plist

  3)Stop Internet Sharing.

  4)Open /tmp/bootpd.plist for editing using TextEdit or whatever.

  5)Locate this section of the file, near the end:

  <key>reply_threshold_seconds</key>
  <integer>4</integer>

  6)Change the value 4 to 0.

  7)In Terminal, type sudo cp /tmp/bootpd.plist /etc

  8)Start Internet Sharing.

  9)Check that your change to /etc/bootpd.plist hasn’t been reverted.

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  I hope this guide has helped you. I just want to say that i did this guide on a macbook pro, but I know that it works on a macbook to. I don’t know about iMac’s and Mac Pro’s. I’m not liable to any damage that you may cause in doing this (which should be none).

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