The iPrint
I’m so excited. Apple has just released a preview of it’s new iPrint. Finally a printer that looks good, is completely compatible with all my hardware and will just work instead of 5 hours of screaming and troubleshooting. Apple claims that the design is almost perfectly silent, prints 11 pages per minute and the ink cartridges are loaded into the back so you don’t chance mucking up the print heads. It connects via bluetooth and wifi so no need for oddly shaped cords; Plug it into the power and it’s ready. Apple says the device will be available for purchase in early March but you can preorder through their website in a couple weeks.
Kindle hacking!
I love my kindle but I really don’t like the screensavers that come with it. Something about promoting people who’ve been dead for over a hundred years… Anyway, Amazon released the source code for the kindle and the hacking community got right to it. We now have custom screensavers as well as custom fonts and a few other hacks that are less interesting. You can find the latest code for the hacks as well as very easy instructions at: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88004. The only note that I have about this is that if you have firmware 3.3 like I do, you need to use a different jailbreak and hack than normal. Don’t use the k3g version; use k3g-3.2.1. Technically that’s the hack for the special offer version of the kindle but it works for firmware 3.3 as well. Check it out!
QR Code Hacking…
I was reading a lot lately about playing with QR codes such that you could display a custom image in them instead of just the random assortment of dots. I didn’t know this but apparently there’s a serious amount of error correction that goes into processing these images. You don’t even need to rearrange the data for the code because you can just write on top of it and the error correction will deal with it. So, I give you the new QR code for my business. How awesome is this?
A comparison…
So, I like to doodle out my photo ideas because if i don’t then I tend to forget them. I wanted to share one of these contrasted with the actual image I took just to show the similarities/difference. Some people have told me they look completely different and others have told me they look the same. Everybody agrees that I’m strange for doodling. Hope you think this is funny:
Kitten Spam 2…
This is why I have no bedding left…
Smoke and Mirrors…
Last night I got to work creating step one of an image I’ve been mulling over for a while. Eventually I plan on working this into something larger but the results for now are fantastic. The smoke was made with a hookah and since there was only two of us we got dizzy pretty quick lol. That smoke wasn’t staying in place for very long at all, haha. Another fun tidbit is that the pics were all in color. they just look black and white. How cool is that? Check em out:
Beyoncé gets an A+ !
Somebody just sent me this video that Beyoncé recently put out. I think it’s fantastic that she’s trying to encourage America’s youth to get healthy. Makes me wanna dance… 