TwitterThe Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is an awesome library for all kinds of map and geospatial based transformations and calculations. I’m currently using it to add a custom overlay on the map in an iPhone app I’m making. When making a custom overlay you use the GDAL’s gdal_translate function to create an image file [...]
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My current guitar set up
This week I’ve received two great packages from eBay, Firstly a BOSS NS-50 noise gate (which by the way CityLink my full title is Colin Wren, Supreme Overlord of Tooting. The eBayer put my full title, why can’t you?) and a BOSS MT-2 metal distortion pedal. After a while of using software simulations of amps [...]
Music players for Linux
Linux seems to have an abundance of music players it appears but as with most things on Linux it’s about finding the one that works best for you. To do this you have to pretty much try everything for a day, to see how it handles different tasks and the options it has. No matter [...]
Getting line-in input on a Mac Pro
Having just made the switch to Linux and with Garageband playing up on me (for some reason it starts 3/4 bars before the audio appears on the timeline) I decided to try and use Linux to record my demos. Although this ultimately means learning a new recording package it will hopefully give me more freedom [...]
Pidgin – a Twitter client?
Since making the switch to Linux I’ve had to find a new Twitter client. I’m normally a massive TweetDeck fan but due to Adobe dropping AIR support for Linux it’s not a viable option. I really like TweetDeck it’s not only useful because it allows you to have lots of columns open but it also [...]
Mac Pro hard drive failure
A big fat bollocks I believe is in order. I’m currently going through a bit of an issue which pretty much affects all my plans for this month. My Mac Pro hard drive failed and with it took all my music, passwords and ‘my life’. Still not to worry, I’ve got Ubuntu Natty running on [...]