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Jul 3 / Oli

Timelapse

Some recent experiments with timelapse photography The first was taken from Cowling pinnacle (near Lund's Tower), and is about 30 minutes of time passing in just 60 seconds.

And in a slightly less picturesque setting, I shot a series of timelapse videos of my attempted repair of my iPhone 3G (which is detailed at length in this ...

Jul 3 / Oli

The iPhone 3G Lives On!

A few months ago I made a decision: Whatever new 'iPhone' Apple reveals at WWDC, I'm not interested. I don't have any money, and I'm perfectly happy with my iPhone 3G. My intentions were good, but unfortunately I got sucked in by Apple's Reality Distortion Field along with everyone else. At one point I actually ...

Apr 26 / Oli

Overheating Apple TV (Updated)

I've had an Apple TV for a number of years now, but in the last 12 months I've noticed an increasing number of problems with graphical glitches - some pretty minor, such as the odd white pixel in the menu (shown above), up to the horrendous video playback problems like this: I've done quite a bit ...

Apr 21 / Oli

iPhone 4.0: Why can’t we all just get along?

There's been a storm brewing between rivals Google, Adobe and Apple. Each day seems to bring news of some minor sparring between the software giants, but instead of looking on in mild amusement, I've started to realise how their actions are affecting the future of smartphone development. The news that made me sit up and take ...

Jan 4 / Oli

HowTo: Ubuntu as a Time Machine Volume

Have you ever wished you could use Apple's Time Machine service over a network? Since I've got almost 2TB of storage on my Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) server, I certainly did - but unfortunately Apple only lets you use physically attached USB or Firewire drives, or their own network-attached "Time Capsule". Well, it turns out theres a ...