Last month I pre-ordered the Nikon GP-1 GPS Unit for my DSLR. It’s an addon that automatically geo-tags photos you take with the gps coordinates of your current location. I’ve always liked to geo-tag my photos (particularly when travelling) but only did when I remembered to do it manually after the fact. Now I don’t…
Want to use your iPhone 3G with a different carrier? The iPhone Dev Team have released their unlock tool for the iPhone 3G, called yellowsn0w. It’s a package available via Cydia which gets installed when you jailbreak your phone with QuickPwn or Pwnage. You will need to add a new source to Cydia as well…
Now that the Christmas dust has settled, the turkey has been eaten and, at least in Canada, the Boxing Day/Week sales are winding down, what did you get? Any cool gadgets? My wife and I don’t exchange gifts during the holidays, we simply spoil our nieces and nephew and then get what we wanted after…
Ebay can be a wonderful place. I recently received this backpack from a seller in France. Crumpler and Nikon got together a few years ago and made a branded backpack. Unfortunately it was only available in Europe. So after a lot of trolling and tracking down, I found one. Like all Crumplers, it is incredibly…
A new iPhone app [iTunes link] just popped up on my radar that is pretty cool. It lets you pretend your iPhone camera has a tilt/shift lens. Kinda. While heading to grab a coffee this morning, I took this shot: then loaded it into the Tilt/Shift app: which resulted in this image: Not quite a…
After a month long wait, my Lensbaby Composer has finally arrived: Mounted on my D90: With the wide angle lens attached: I’ve only had it for a couple of days but have had a few chances to play with it: and even shot some video with it: So far it’s been a lot of fun…
Yeah, it may be a pain to have to enter your passcode every time you want to use your iPhone, but you know what’s worse than that? Having your iPhone stolen and knowing some douchebag is using it and browsing through your personal shit. One cool feature of the passcode lock is that if enabled,…
Derek tagged me in this internet meme so here’s my sixth photo on the sixth page of my Flickrstream which happens to be a photo of a gift certificate I got for the Crumpler Store for my birthday: Feel free to tag yourself and post your sixth photo on the sixth page of your Flickr…
A few months ago, I was contacted about doing an interview with the Georgia Straight which is the local weekly entertainment newspaper in Vancouver. It has finally made it to print (you can read it online here) and I think it turned out pretty good (thanks Chris!). I was worried that some (or all) of…