Archive for January, 2010

iDontpadwhatsux

Published by
James
at 14:15 UTC Jan 28, 2010 in 唉~. 0 Comments

Once again, Apple, like everyone else in the electronic market, has given us something that’s not and making us wait for something that is.

How many new adapters are you planning on making anyway?  Haven’t we all got enough for our computer related components?  Micro/Mini/USBs, 1394a/b, eSATA, D-SUB/DVIwhatever/HDMI/Apple Display/Apple miniDisplay…  Don’t we have IEEE standardizing ports anymore?  If it’s just another glorified iPhone/iPod, WTF is wrong with their existing USB cable?  And what’s with that MicroSIM, who uses them anyw… oh, never mind.

1024 x …res…, my 7 year old Fuji 10″ subnotebook had 1280x res.

So yeh, now Apple fanatics will have to bring 3 Apple gadgets out? NetBook, iPad, iPhone coz none of them really does anything the other 2 do at all?

My prediction is, just like the nonphone iPhone 1G, by the 3.5 generation we’d get the proper iPad.  Hopefully by then, there would be one without the long side margins making it more like the iPhone aspect ratio in 16×10 ( I hate 16×9 for work ) format, 1280x res, multitasking, Flash support, USB/Firewire/eSata, DVI so it may not need to have yet another computer with it, front cam.  No I don’t like lugging a sleek machine along with 30 adapter cables around, not even across the isle to the desk next to mine.

Either that or just put 4GB RAM, 3G phone support with proper SIM slot, and a GPS in the new Macbook Air and make the keyboard detachable.  Then we’ll have a real computer so we wouldn’t need to bring 50 gadgets out at once.

Now the Nokia Booklet… nah, 1GB RAM with WindO$ 7!  Who are they kidding?

MSWindO$ Auto Updates

Published by
James
at 12:33 UTC Jan 13, 2010 in 唉~. 0 Comments

restart now/restart later, restart now/restart later, restart now/restart later, restart now/restart later….

Screw you MicrofxkingSoft!  I wanna work with my computer for MY WORK, not constantly pampering your dumb ass OS maintenance!

Canon Pixma Pro 9500 A3+ Color Printer

Published by
James
at 9:06 UTC Jan 12, 2010 in Arts&Crafts and Computing. 0 Comments

I have bought this printer second hand at a very affordable price for a few months now and it had even gotten me through a joint photo exhibition with three of my photos printed in A3+ size with raved reviews.   However, after that exhibition, I haven’t been printing much of anything; and that’s where the expenses come in…

Unlike most HP inkjet printers, Canon printers does not change printhead at every ink-cartridge  replacement.  The problem with this is, if you don’t print often, printheads could get clogged up and you need to do numerous printhead cleaning routines to unclog them.  When you do, massive amount of ink would be used.  Although this in no different with HP printers, the main issue is, sometimes the printheads get so clogged up, you could use up the entire full cartridge and the printhead is still clogged; whereas in the case of HP printers, a new printhead comes with each ink-cartridge and therefore no more clogging and no more further cleaning is necessary.

Regardless of printer brands, I suggest one prints a full color photo daily so each and every single printhead nozzle gets used daily to prevent clogging.

On another note, for the print driver settings, a Print Quality setting of Standard rather than Fine is better suited for photo printing.  The Fine setting is probably more for brilliant solid pie charts where this setting would put a glaze patches on a photo.  With my 20″ iMac color corrected with OSX’s built-in color management settings, the color settings on the Pro9500 driver can be set at all neutral with an Intensity setting of +1 or +2 within the Color Mode set to Standard gets me pretty well to WYSIWYG.

A nice affordable printer with expensive consumables that saves multiple trips to a photo printing shop.

Juat Another Day

Published by
James
at 4:03 UTC Jan 5, 2010 Uncategorizedin . 0 Comments

Went through Christmas and New Year just as they were any other day of the week with the usual traditonal NYE ball with the folks. The ball was boring, as usual. Does getting older mean feeling less excitment in daily life? I mean what is there left to do that is refreshingly exciting short from getting hurt or getting into trouble?

One problem in writing blogs is that there are so many things in mind that simply can’t be revealed to the public. I suppose revealing just those in a way could be exciting but surely would get into trouble.

For the record, I don’t like drinking. I don’t get high, or rather, I have just as much or little fun with friends with or without alcohol. So what’s the point besides needing to go pee more often and an upset stomach the next day, and possibly getting fatter by each and every drink?

Picked up wakeboarding the year before. OK fun, expensive. Picked up snorkling last year. OK fun, nothing to see. Think I’ll pickup surfing this year. Should be able to shead some weight and relatively inexpensive. No big tunnel waves in HK but so what? I don’t want to be eaten alive by the ocean or Great White anyway. I can’t slamp dunk either but that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun shooting hoops. If I wanted to be competitive in a sport, I’d pickup sprinting again; or Rugby for that matter but don’t really feel like getting hit by ten 2000 lbs men at the same time anymore.

Thinking perhaps I need to pickup that HKD$250 camouflaged tent and go shoot birds at hours like shooting sunrises. HK people are lazy as hell most wouldn’t start any event until 1030. By that time of the day anything facinating in nature are gone. All wildlife HK people ever met is stinking drunks or off the buses zombies. Either that or fucking assholes which I’d rather shoot them with a M60 or a Gatling gun instead.

Need to move back to Canada within a few years before I no longer could carry the weight of my photo gear.

Homemade Sukiyaki and slow cook BBQ beef rib meat were great for those cold evenings. Will try to make a pizza from scratch this week.