The myth of the retina display
As more and more Android phones are coming out with high resolution displays, along the same line as Apple’s iPhone’s Retina Display, many tech journalists are comparing their screens to the iPhone. They’re saying thingts like “it’s lower than the iPhone, but still above the ‘magic’ 300 pixels per inch mark”. It’s important to note, … Read more
YouTube Easter Egg: Let Google Rick Roll you!
I just discovered a cool little Easter Egg that YouTube has included in its HTML5 version. By going to http://youtube.com/html5 and joining the experiment, the right click menu on a video will give you the option to ‘Save Video As…’ If you click that option, it takes you to a video of Rick Astley’s song … Read more
Problems with WordPress
About two weeks or so ago now, I was working on another blog post about the power of a tool named Prey. Months ago, I created a draft post where I posted a link to an interesting story regarding Prey, and then left for a while. When I came back to work on it again, … Read more
How to update Facebook from Twitter
This post looks at how you can easily update Facebook and Twitter at the same time, while only visiting Twitter, or your favourite Twitter client. Go to Facebook, and search for “Selective Tweets” Select the App with that name. Type in your Twitter handle in the box next to the “@”, and click “save” Then … Read more
New Logo
I’ve recently created a new logo for Music Meets Tech. You can clearly see I’m no graphic designer, but I think it’s quite nice. It gives the general idea of what this blog is about. I designed it on my Mac in Adobe Photoshop, using a variety of images which belong to me, or were … Read more
Creating Panoramas in Photoshop CS5
How to create a panorama in Adobe Photoshop CS5 using photo-merge and content-aware fill. Open Photoshop Open the photos you want to use to create the panorama (this is not essential at this point, but makes it easier) Go to File -> Automate -> Photomerge If you have opened the files already, click “Add Open … Read more
Idea: Multi-carded cameras
This is the first in an ongoing series of ideas. They are just random or interesting ideas for products or software that I have thought of at some time. It may or may not be feasible for any number of reasons. I just thought it was an interesting idea, which I decided to write down. … Read more
Hate Apple announcement? I said no such thing…
Despite my bad luck in the past, this next Apple announcement is perfect for me. It starts at midnight on Thursday the 2nd of September, and, for the first time, I shouldn’t have anything stopping me from watching live blogs. The amazing timing of a public holiday means that I don’t have school the day … Read more
Follow up: Mac start-up problem
As I wrote about in a previous post, I was having trouble getting my new Mac to start up. This is just a quick follow up to say that it’s now working. In fact, shortly after I posted my last one, I tried again to shut it down, and it finally turned off! I turned … Read more
Macs never have the problems Windows PCs have? BS!
A little while ago I got my first Mac: a second tier, 13-inch MacBook Pro. I’ve really been enjoying using it, and, due to the faster speed in booting up and the portability, among other things, I have been using it more than my Windows desktop. Yesterday, I decided I was going to go … Read more
