Month: July 2010

I want — Canon Camera Lens mug

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I am sure that all photographers, amateur or professional, wold love drinking their favourite brew from a mug like this.

Let me quote from PhotoJoJo:

Introducing: the Camera Lens Mug, a mug rendered to resemble a remarkably realistic 24-105mm Canon lens!

Complete with lens-cap lid and rubber-grip zoom and focus rings, this marvelous mug also features an autofocus switch that actually switches between AF and MF.

We know the warning signs too well. You’ll begin with a cup of Earl Grey, then move onto a banana yogurt smoothie, next, an ice cream fudge sundae, and pretty soon, you’ll be so hooked on your new mug, you’ll be eating dinner out it, too!

You can find it here.

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Almost full moon, experiment with zoom on Canon Powershot SX20 IS

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The moon was almost full on a perfect Cape winters evening.  Good time to experiment with the zoom on my Canon Powershot SX20 IS. I am very hesitant to use the digital zoom on any camera but as you can see from the photo at the bottom, even at 4x Digital, it is not that bad.

Focal Length: 53.8mm (10.7x Optical and no Digital)

Focal Length: 100mm (20x Optical and no Digital)

Focal Length: 100mm (20x Optical and 1.54x Digital)

Focal Length: 100mm (20x Optical and 4x Digital)

One can see it is a bit grainy at 4x Digital but anything between 1.5x and 2x Digital is great.

Click on the image to see a larger one.  Also you can see more in my Picasa Album.

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent – 2010/07/25

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ghost writerThe top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘The Ghost Writer’ tops the chart for the second week in row, followed by ‘Operation Endgame’. ‘Inception’ completes the top three.

This week there are four newcomers including the special p2p release of The Yes Men Fix The World. The Ghost Writer is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week.

The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

Week ending July 25, 2010
Ranking (last week) Movie Rating / Trailer
1 (4) The Ghost Writer 7.8 / trailer
2 (…) Operation Endgame 6.6 / trailer
3 (…) Inception (CAM) 9.3 / trailer
4 (…) Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6.1 / trailer
5 (1) Clash Of The Titans 6.0 / trailer
6 (…) The Yes Men Fix The World 7.5 / trailer
7 (2) Death At A Funeral 4.8 / trailer
8 (7) The A-Team (R5) 7.5 / trailer
9 (3) Repo Men 6.2 / trailer
10 (10) The Bounty Hunter 5.1 / trailer

Article from: TorrentFreak.

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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent – 18/6/2010

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clashThe top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, Clash Of The Titans’ tops the chart for the second week in row, followed by ‘Death At A Funeral’. ‘Repo Man’ completes the top three.

This week there are two newcomers in the top 10 and one returnee. Clash Of The Titans is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent again this week.

The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise.

Week ending July 18, 2010
Ranking (last week) Movie Rating / Trailer
1 (1) Clash Of The Titans 6.0 / trailer
2 (&) Death At A Funeral 4.8 / trailer
3 (2) Repo Men 6.2 / trailer
4 (&) The Ghost Writer 7.8 / trailer
5 (5) The Karate Kid 5.8 / trailer
6 (3) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (TS) 4.3 / trailer
7 (4) The A-Team (R5) 7.5 / trailer
8 (9) Green Zone 7.2 / trailer
9 (6) Hot Tub Time Machine (R5) 7.2 / trailer
10 (back) The Bounty Hunter 5.1 / trailer

Article from: TorrentFreak.

Not one single minute watching World Cup but I kept up to date.

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With the World Cup ending last night and Spain being crowned the champions, I have a confession to make.  I did not watch 1 single minute of the World Cup on either the TV or live in a stadium.  I did not even attend one of the Fan Fests or Fan Walks.

This might sound very unpatriotic but I can assure you I took an active interest in it and am very proud at the way that South Africa hosted the event and presented the country doing it.  The main reason is that I do not own a TV and am just not into soccer that much to spend money in a restaurant or other venue watching it.

Having said that, I have kept up with whatever was going on by mainly using social media like Twitter and Facebook.  And I must say that following the soccer on Twitter was probably much better than on TV if I have to listen to the tweets.  Heavy breathing commentators is just not my scene and totally missing Madiba by showing an advert – that is just not on.

Also I had this great little app on my Linux workstation that got updated via the Internet, so I always knew the stand of the teams in the group stages or during the knockout rounds.

This just goes to show, in this day and age one can be up to date and take part without TV and old way media by using new way media.  And the cherry on the cake is that my debt levels is way less than lots of other people that went on a spending spree and blame it on the World Cup.

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The most perfect day in Cape Town.

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Today was one of those perfect days in Cape Town.  I went to visit family in Melkbosstrand and on my way home I stopped at Bouberg beach and took some photos of what else than Table Mountain.

There was some boats in the bay on one wreck was so close, it looked like one was able to touch it.

And what is a view of Table Mountain and Cape Town without the Cape Town Stadium.

In my Picasa Gallery you can see a closer view of the stadium together with some other photos I have taken of ships in the bay and people (babies) and dogs on the beach..