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Even with a purpose built DSLR, you still have to frame your shot. I meant I don't need to look at the screen to make the phone ready to shoot. I believe the software can go a long way. It will n…

Somewhat related, JPEG files have the potential to leak a whole lot of information (through EXIF metadata) if put online straight of a camera/phone. Things like time but also camera model and eve…

This can all be "fixed" in software. In fact, on my HTC One M8 which is running Cyanogenmod, if I double press the power button at anytime, it switches to camera app and I can then take phot…

Nice! Back when I started using it, it didn't have that (or I didn't look carefully enough).

This problem bit me in the butt when I was trying to setup my blog on S3. On every sync, all the pages, which were gzipped on my machine (Cloudfront doesn't do compression on the fly) would uploa…

Say the new feature was a super accurate GPS, down to a centimeter so you could now find your way in a shopping mall. Oh and it'd report a position once a minute!

My lenovo x250 laptop has an internal battery that does exactly this, lets you swap the external one without interruption. I haven't used this much but I can see how important it is for someone o…

Have you looked into online tools [1] that let you make feeds out of any webpage? [1]: http://superuser.com/questions/361093/how-to-track-blog-chan... …

You beat me by 10. Care to share some of the less popular sources you consume?

Absolutely! My only source of news/articles comes to me through RSS feeds that are sent as emails. lapafeed [1] running alongside a free Mailchimp and OpenShift instance takes care of the whole t…

I personally find python in general to align almost perfectly with the way I think about writing software. It's interpreted so I can do things like compiling dynamic python in my code or fall int…

Contacted NASA and it's actually on purpose, so they look better printed.

Anyone noticed the colors in the TIFFs are off? They're very saturated and slightly off hue (compared to the preview image and the PDFs).

Ah, nostalgia. I used MSN Messenger religiously until I started college at which point had to switch to Linux (thank goodness). Lots of fond memories. At some point I figured that since MSN lists the …

Got an entire empty wall to furnish with these.

I believe most mobile phone cell towers transmit local time. I'm not sure if you need to be subscribed to a service or not. If not, then you basically only need a cheap GSM module, costing around…

> Okay, it looks like I'm going to have to do this the hard way. Is the Sun up in Melbourne? > Let me find a webcam somewhere in that city. Seriously? Can't just Google "sunrise t…

> For example, coding standard says every "switch" statement has to have a "default" case. grep "switch", grep "default", and you get wildly different numbe…

> Supposedly, with Android you are free to install software from arbitrary sources ... Certainly. Go to Settings -> Security and tick "Unknown sources" option. > With Android device…

Hackaday ( http://hackaday.com/ )

I've only ever used FreeCAD and OpenSCAD. I assume SolidWorks is something like FreeCAD, an interactive 3D editor. Out of the two, I'd pick OpenSCAD any day. Here're some reasons: * If …

Note that SQuirreL SQL [1] or just about any JDBC compliant SQL client combined with Sqlite's JDBC driver [2] can be used to interrogate/manipulate the structure and the data stored in Sqlit…

If you'd like to criticize or praise their UI, it'd be helpful to others if you made it explicit, so in the least the developers could learn the strong/weak points of their work.

http://libgen.io/ which archives the sci-hub's newly accessed papers distributes the copies through BitTorrent. Libgen itself is also mirrored in multiple locations. Even if Sci-…

I don't know where vortico's getting his/her stats, but you can calculate it yourself from the http://libgen.io/ , where sci-hub.io stores the newly accessed papers [1]…

Didn't know about API gateway, so it's all good then. Also I meant to say "Cloudflare".

I've been doing this for years but sparingly and in my blog (in fact my blog's heading reads "because I forget simple little things too soon"). Never occurred to me to git it as th…