Gabriel de Kadt » amateur geekery

Quick and dirty DVD editing in iMovie

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:47:43 +0000

Got your own content want to re-edit quick-like using iMovie. Use MPEG Streamclip to export to MPEG-4. Import into iMovie. Edit.

A Flickr slideshow iFrame in WordPress?

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:43 +0000

A-ha! So this is how it’s done…

For the full experience you’d need a canvas (or theme) that accommodates the Flickrslideshow minimum dimensions which are roughly 580px wide x 360px high. Right now this site’s main content div is only 500px wide – so there’s a bit of clipping on landscape images. But not enough to worry about too much just yet.

The code is this:

miscellany

admin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:44:42 +0000

The Flashing Blade.

Currently here. Childrens’ TV from way back in the seventies. You remember this one? I do. The theme tune is baked into my memory for ever.

Flickr viewer

Tiltviewer is a very cool way to see your Flickr stream. Or mine. I like what it does; somewhere between a slideshow and browser. Much cleaner interface than Flickr’s pages. Smells of the future. Very clever. Here is their ‘ome page, Mr ‘iggins.

Carbon Copy Cloner

I’ve stumbled upon the fact that this backup software stalwart for Mac OS X has finally been updated. Time to give it a whirl again. Which reminds me …

Hard-drive upgrade. Again.

Not quite two years since the last upgrade I’ve done it again. This time not precipitated by a dead-disk but by a severe lack of space. 160GB drive swapped out from my LaCie external drive. Not a quick fix but a good one. And I took to opportunity to give the old girl a good clean. How nice. Shinny Aluminium. Thanks to the folks at iFixit for the online guide.

Photogasm

Last but by no means least. My friend Mick Partridge created Jude Edginton’s website. Jude’ photo’s are really very good. Really. Nice site Mr. Partridge.

How’s your php.ini?

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:03:56 +0000

Mine’s just fine now. When trying to upload a photo via WordPress’ interface I used to get this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted

Couldn’t find a quick fix and worked around it using Flickr until today.

Recently MediaTemple sent notification of a default change to all their users’ environments. In the FAQ they sent out – out jumped said error message. The fix, easy: FTP into the affected account and edit the php.ini file in /etc/ .
A quick change of “blankety-blank” in: memory_limit = [blankety-blank]
to “100M”, hence: memory_limit = 100M.

Robert is my sons’ mother’s brother.