Archive for January, 2012

Wunderlist to Evernote

I’ve been using Evernote as recommended by Boy in a Band. I actually signed up for it in 2008 then briefly played with it in 2010 and last year. Tweet

Annotum, a WordPress Theme for Publications

In doing research on organizing the growing article repository, the new Annotum project was encountered. Note that the Annotum project came out of the Google Knol project as well as collaboration with Crowd Favorite and Automattic. This project is basically a revamped/expanded WordPress installation with an “Article” data type (as well as Pages and Posts). [...]

Why Use CyanogenMod ROM (or custom ROMs)

A friend asked why use CyanogenMod ROM (or really, any custom ROM) instead of stock Android. Besides feeding the inner geek, there are several reason… Tweet

January 4, 2012 • Posted in: Android, Hacking • No Comments

Chiang Mai City at Night

Chiang mai City Night, a photo by Tanatat pongpibool on Flickr. Tweet

January 3, 2012 • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments

Hacking the Canon Camera with CHDK

Based on a lot of research, I decided to acquire a Canon G12 which is a pretty awesome camera for the price. One great feature is a firmware hack called the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK). Basically it unleashes a lot of the power available in the camera but not found in the standard Canon [...]

January 2, 2012 • Posted in: Camera, Hacking • No Comments

Pinboard beats Delicious

There are various reasons to reconsider using Delicious. The first is the sale to YouTube founders, who still have no obvious real business or product idea. The second is that Pinboard has a business model. It also works better and faster. And there are many ways to use it, quite a bit of flexibility in [...]