tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76951340831657412412024-03-12T23:55:42.804-07:00Linux vs MacA technological love story. A never ending series of tragedy and ecstasy in software, hardware and relationships comparing apples to oranges on a routinely basis. (Or just: notes on how to get stuff done haphazardly composed just for fun.)Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-51327952559879404362017-05-19T10:17:00.000-07:002017-05-19T10:17:57.044-07:00Apple Is Lobbying Against Your Right to Repair iPhones
Behind the scenes, Apple is trying to kill legislation that would make it easier for normal people to fix iPhones
Read the story on Motherboard.Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-4898510332364333632016-11-05T03:57:00.000-07:002016-11-05T03:59:16.463-07:00Searches for "iPhone slow" make huge spikes right after every new iPhone release
Just for good measure:
trends.embed.renderExploreWidget("TIMESERIES", {"comparisonItem":[{"keyword":"android slow","geo":"","time":"2008-01-01 2016-11-05"}],"category":5,"property":""}, {"exploreQuery":"cat=5&date=2008-01-01%202016-11-05&q=android%20slow"});
Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-65467030081185595892016-09-08T23:57:00.001-07:002016-11-05T03:52:01.173-07:00Apple update
Via reddit
Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-77837348052982206202014-01-14T05:14:00.003-08:002014-01-14T05:15:15.934-08:00Editing Audio: Hindenburg vs WaveLab vs AudacityA very quick comparison of three leading audio editors.
WaveLab
My version came with a Xoom microphone; the latest version costs about 550 euros. For Mac (and Windows), not Linux.
WaveLab LE 7.1
WaveLab is nice, stable and conservative. Clearly packed with features to explore and enjoy. Also quite expensive and not made for Linux.
Hindenburg
Running a trial (required for a journalism Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-34589070326797850422013-07-27T09:05:00.001-07:002013-07-27T09:07:13.980-07:00How to encrypt your emails
Using PGP encrypted emails nobody
except the sender and the intended recipient will be able to read and
understand the contents. Below is a quick guide to encryption.
Each user needs three things, basically: PGP encryption software, a
key pair and public keys of contacts. It isn't hard and here’s how to do
it.
Step 1: Install PGP software
There are options. I recommend using GnuPG (or, Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-80853464026593406362013-05-26T08:06:00.001-07:002013-05-26T08:06:07.022-07:00"Come bomb the Little Mermaid"
Right now smartphone-armed guerrillas battle from street to street in Copenhagen. Google made them do it.
It has been dark for a few hours. The temperature is falling to minus
ten degrees, just as the forecast promised, and there is plenty “fresh
wind from the east and northeast” this January evening in Denmark. A
small group of men are standing on Langelinje harbor in
Copenhagen all Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0Langelinie, Langeliniekaj 2, 2100 København, Danmark55.6999062 12.60083729999996630.1778717 -28.707756700000033 81.2219407 53.909431299999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-45020765497685573842013-04-07T03:19:00.001-07:002013-04-07T03:23:33.273-07:00How to create an animated GIF from a movie scene using Avidemux and GIMP
Get the footage
Put the DVD in your drive, open the largest .vob file using Avidemux
or find it on YouTube, download it with, for example, youtube-dl at the command line or with DownloadHelper from Firefox
In Avidemux, specify the clip you want by clicking A at the first frame and B at the last frame
To export the frames click File > Save > Save Selection as JPEG Images.
Open GIMP toBennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-83972575650937515312013-03-23T06:25:00.000-07:002013-03-23T06:46:08.847-07:00Through the ages...+openSUSE 12.3 is out now. Sooner rather than later users should upgrade. Getting ready to do so it took me some time to locate my burnable DVDs. And I guess DVDs as a technology is already obsolete, really? Why not go all USB/flash?
Times have changed. The habit of keeping the previous install DVD to be ready for a reinstall or lending it out easily or even a downgrade has led to a habit of Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-6063458864173657292013-03-08T07:50:00.003-08:002013-03-08T07:50:48.175-08:00Hail AdBlockHow-to surf the internet on your Android phone AKA note-to-self on not to waste half your data subscription on garbage ads while using mobile data not your home wi-fi.
From Google Play install Firefox and Advanced Task Killer
From Firefox install Adblock for Firefox for Android
Reinstall Adblock addon after updates of Firefox
Every now and then kill almost everything using the task killer appBennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-39641333535888665142012-12-28T04:09:00.003-08:002012-12-29T06:57:04.205-08:00New Android phones trash iPhone 5This video of ten things the new (LG) Nexus 4 can do but Apple's iPhone 5 can't is quite popular right now. At least in Android circles but it's got a point:
The top comment even lists four more things:
On Android you can connect your device as USB-storage device on your computer and copy and paste stuff
On Android you can change the UI / launcher if you don't like the default look.
On Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-60066532054401806452012-10-23T00:32:00.001-07:002012-10-23T00:33:45.079-07:00Top Three iPhone5 Comedy VideosChronologically listed. All funny and true (although sarcastically).
Jimmy Kimmel Live - First Look: iPhone 5
The original version: Hitler finds out about iPhone 5
Saturday Night Live - Tech Talk: iPhone 5
Anything missing? Bring it on.Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-34144308320403961212012-10-13T16:45:00.001-07:002012-10-18T11:02:52.422-07:00Eight (8) years later review: my Creative Zen MP3-playerSo, I have started studying journalism. One of the first things a journalism student need to acquire is a voice recorder. There's an app for that, surely, but a standalone / dedicated / backup device with good microphone quality and plenty of disk is nice. Lo and behold: The Creative Zen Micro from 2004 in my drawer.
I remember buying it in wonder how it clearly beat Apple's iPod at the time. Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-83544006941618351922012-09-15T07:55:00.000-07:002012-09-15T07:59:08.226-07:00Fastest and easiest way to join two pdf filesJust 20 seconds to advertise the command line a bit.
To open or close the command line window in Dolphin file manager press F4. To auto-finish file names press TAB. The syntax is pdftk inputfile1.pdf inputfile2.pdf cat output outputfile.pdf. Not hard.
If you can do the same thing on a Mac, let me know.
(You are looking at pdftk on openSUSE 12.2 with KDE. Recorded with XvidCap Screen Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-75164598562401957242012-09-02T23:24:00.000-07:002012-09-02T23:24:00.088-07:00Jobs is a god, Apple is a religion
Wall Street Journal / Thai Group Says Steve Jobs Reincarnated as Warrior-Philosopher
“After Steve Jobs passed away, he was reincarnated as a divine being with a special knowledge and appreciation for science and the arts.”
Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-62249830094594331442012-07-10T14:53:00.004-07:002012-07-10T14:53:58.472-07:00Apple abandons green certification, fans ecstaticA quick note on Apple's new products is overdue. First, this iconic picture speaks a thousand words:
Attention: Apple has launched a new laptop. Via Shawn's Tumblr.
The fanaticism of the Apple cult surprises me every time. But this time critical voices were raised:
The Retina MacBook is the least repairable laptop we’ve ever taken apart: Unlike the previous model, the display is fused to Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-78845118681404339732012-07-09T13:21:00.002-07:002012-07-09T13:28:51.601-07:00iMovie 9.0.6 upgrade conflicts with 3ivx codecWhen something doesn't work on the Linux system, it's annoying. But usually, it's fixable, the community will help, there are alternatives to most programs and you can't get that mad since after all the open source is available thanks to thousands of volunteers.
When something doesn't work on Windows, it's annoying. But usually, I shrug at it, find a fix or get someone else to fix it. Because Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-37320457420408493382012-04-28T02:52:00.001-07:002012-04-28T02:56:20.805-07:00Dear bloggers: Please manipulate your pictures (rant)
This picture of a junkie's leg was disqualified from the annual press photo award:
Copyright Thomas Nielsen. As seen on Information.dk / Må man redigere i virkeligheden?
The photographer's crime? To tape a little piece of cardboard to one side of the flash as to direct the light towards the leg only and to increase darkness in development of the RAW file.
Press photographers and Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-24107389948941234602012-02-19T05:19:00.002-08:002012-02-19T05:19:56.079-08:00Innovation at Microsoft and Apple: copying Linux and China
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal!"
- Pablo Picasso
IT World / Eight features Windows 8 borrowed from Linux
...while Microsoft has long been accused of stealing from the open source community, according to some Linux fans, it's getting to the point where Microsoft simply appropriates good Linux features.
engadget / Introducing the original iPAD, Proview's late '90s iMac-like desktop
Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-41175959885140081762012-02-09T08:33:00.000-08:002012-02-09T08:57:04.963-08:00FBI release Steve Jobs file (4MB PDF)"Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs’ honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals."
"the Apple Computer Company has been less than cooperative, in terms of providing assistance as requested of the Legal Department."
Via Future Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-24278465671193271932012-01-23T12:20:00.000-08:002012-01-23T12:20:45.843-08:00Richard Stallman interviewed on SOPA
The recent massive protests over proposed totalitarian censorship laws in the US had Alex Jones of 'Infowars' interview the godfather of open source, Richard Stallman. Of course, Stallman seized the opportunity to explain his anti-copyright sentiments.
"We have to put an end to the War On Sharing. [...] We have to stop using digital handcuffs."
"It's not just Microsoft. I gotta point Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-21588572507186789482012-01-15T02:57:00.000-08:002012-01-15T03:05:28.049-08:00Musings on fear vs optimism, collapse vs innovationWriting about tech is comfortable in the sense that it's almost always about progress, problems getting solved and annoying tasks replaced with invisible automation. Tech bloggers, journalists and readers are generally optimists. Those of us who do worry a bit mostly do so over totalitarian tendencies in the largest tech companies and most heavily gadget-armed governments. Malthusian fears may Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-76551118444689324352012-01-01T14:12:00.000-08:002012-01-02T07:36:23.215-08:00Apple, apes and the future of computingThree news stories that interweave neatly:
1. Apes now using iPads
So amazing it makes me feel like buying the Steve Jobs biography.
"The orangutans loved seeing videos of themselves – so there is a little vanity going on – and they like seeing videos of the orangutans who are in the other end of the enclosure [...] So if we incorporate cameras, they can watch Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-25232962659805528902011-11-27T03:14:00.001-08:002011-11-27T03:37:53.527-08:00Apple left vulnerability open for govermental spyware for three yearsThat iTunes update you installed earlier may have been the government spying on you. And Apple have known for at least three years.
FinFisher, a remote spying Trojan that was marketed to the governments
of Egypt, Germany and other nations to permit surreptitious PC and
mobile phone surveillance by law enforcement officials. The piece noted
that FinFisher’s creators advertised the ability to Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-48047511369682209572011-11-12T08:30:00.001-08:002012-01-31T13:10:39.390-08:00Using Canon Legria HF R16So, my good old FLIP camcorder broke and I picked up a Canon on sale. Thus I present: Notes on the joys and horrors of using a Canon Legria HF R16 camcorder on Linux and Mac. Practical notes and first impressions, mostly. Probably useful for most Canon camcorder models.
Believe it or not: I asked the two people working in my local camera shop if Canon camcorders worked well with Macs. They Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7695134083165741241.post-67095488046355328802011-11-12T05:48:00.000-08:002012-10-18T11:02:34.193-07:00Two years later review: my FLIP Mino HD cameraOn the 21st of September 2009 I biked to Bella Center in Copenhagen, site of the COP15 climate change conference three months later, to participate in the kick-off event for the TH!NKABOUTIT #2 blogging project. For use in our blogging each participant was given a 4 GB FLIP Mino HD camera with the European Journalism Centre logo on the cover.
The FLIPs come in a little pouch and with custom Bennohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02192096337281267499noreply@blogger.com0