Paint Your DSLR!

Let’s face it. Aren’t we all tired of seeing black DSLRs? These fine folks over at DigitalRev sure are. They decided to paint their Nikon D90 a nice pink/magenta.

Check it out.

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How To: Hide Zi8 Record Light

Nothing is more aggravating than recording a video and then finding out later that your video is ruined due to an overly bright recording light. With the Kodak Zi8 pocket HD camera, this problem seems to happen quite often.  You cannot record in low light or record any glossy type surfaces due to the record light being so bright. All of the videos have a red tint or a red dot right in the center of them.

Fed up with the red cast and red dots in my videos, I decided to do something about it. I was going to put tape over the light but then I realized, tape would eventually come off and then it’d leave a sticky residue on the camera. So the next best thing to do was to paint the darn thing! I didn’t want to paint the outside because I figured it’d be more work than what it is and it’d also take away from the over all appearance of the device.  I found out you can remove the lens cover and gain access to the light post from within the lens cover.

Video after the jump. (more…)

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Fighting Robots

It seems that we are seeing robotics and transformers becoming more and more main stream. It is not like the days when transformers was originally popular and we were impressed by 2 or 3 manipulation point robotics. People are making free standing robotic creations in their backyard with 10′s if not 100′s points of manipulation. It makes me wonder how close we are from having movies as like Wall- E being true. Although the movie was fairly light hearted it had a very strong emotional under current that was very discontenting because I could very easily see a large portion of our population do something like that and not give it a second thought. Now back to the main point of this article is to take a look at how these complex robotics are maintaining their balance as well as carrying on a grudge match on what appears to be a white board. I must say that I am impressed by the performance here. Now take into account that this was uploaded to you tube a little over two years ago. Imagine what this company could do with investment and developing. Would love to see any lurkers or guests tell me what they think.

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The next development in MacBooks

In an effort to contribute today I have brought you something a little bit on the lighter side. Here we have what could be the next evolution of a MacBook. First we had the MacBook Air now the next logical move the MacBook Airship (yeah yeah I know but I prefaced that cheesy comment with this will be a post on the lighter side).

MacBook Transforms Into Mini Jet – Watch more Funny Videos

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Do you find your computer boring just sitting there? You might want to check this out

This one of a kind Mac Mod utilizes all of the default electronics from a LEGO Mindstorms NXT set. Crammed into the iconic Apple Power Mac G4 Cube’s famous “8-inch” (acrylic) cube are a LEGO NXT programmable brick, 3 interactive servo motors and all 4 sensors: touch, sound, light, and ultrasonic.

For full detail check out the source site

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Mobilelinked IM Update Released.

The latest version if MobileLinked IM for the iPhone was released in the App Store today. VirtueSoft added some new features to the latest release of the application. Here is a look at the new features of the application since the update.

New Features

- Google Talk support. You can now use your google talk and gmail account to chat with your contacts in Google Talk.
- Added Jabber support. The Jabber network is now supported.
- Added new message alerts.
- Added new message appearance settings.
- Added auto saving of chat-logs.

This all ads on top of what is currently offered in this application. (taken from their site)

Supported services:
- MSN (Windows Live Messenger)
- Yahoo IM
- Gtalk
- Jabber

Services to be supported soon:
- AIM
- ICQ
- QQ (OICQ)

Features:
- Multi accounts support
- Chat with friends (multi conversations)
- Changing status (online, away, busy, hidden)
- Persisting Conversations history
- Multi languages support

I really enjoy the new interface tweaks and the ability to style your messages. I will be thrilled when they add AIM support. Some features I would like to see would have to be horizontal typing and possibly the ability to add custom colors to the message styles via color picker, there are some decent colors to choose from. I’d rather have the ability to choose custom colors via the color picker.

I would also like to be able to hear he message sounds when you’re in the active IM window. The sounds only emit when you receive a message from someone in the background. Other than that, this application is very simple, fast, and it works well.

Images after the break.

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