Stuff and Junk

Shit girls say;

The follow up;

Playing with some more video editing and the RC Cars are a good enough subject.

Time Lapse of a storm rolling in over Sydney.

GoPro Camera, 1 second interval and compiled at 30 fps.

Got my first Mac recently, love it, like a lot, but was surprised to see how it viewed my PC’s on my network. Slightly cynical don’t you think?

My 1D recently had a shutter blow out, not great after only 78k shots but very happy to have her back!

Couple of shots testing out the new flash;

Event 08, Coates Hire Ipswich 300

ipswich.v8supercars.com.au

I’m always amazed at the speed that people will just fall into a round about these days. There is no physically possibility that these people can stop in time with barely a thought of braking and flying in at almost full speed, yet I see it more and more everyday.

If someone you know drives too fast, please don’t be afraid to tell them. No one else is going to until they’ve broken something, or someone.

If your concentrating on driving, driving within the means of yourself and your car, you can still enjoy the performance of your car while considerably reducing the risks of something going wrong. It is impossible however to completely remove all risk, hence why judgement is so important. That’s what I think is missing today.

Ironically it’s most likely because cars are too safe these days.

Peltzman Effect
From my favourite podcast Skeptoid Episode #118;

“The Peltzman Effect was nicely summed up in an episode of the TV show CSI: “The safer they make the cars, the more risks the driver is willing to take.” It’s named after the regulatory economist San Peltzman who first described the effect.”

“…When you make it safer to take risks, more people will take them;”

Total Commander

ghisler.com

Great little application primarly for FTP, but also great for copying across network drivers or locally.

WinDirStat

windirstat.info

Alongside of wondering where all the time went is wondering where all the space went on my hard drives. This little application shows what is taking up all the space and displays it all nice and pretty.

Johns Background Changer

johnsadventures.com/software/backgroundswitcher

I’m one of these people who needs things to change and change regularly otherwise I get bored. The fact that this program switches over your background wallpaper is nothing new, even Windows 7 has that standard now, it’s that it will pull in images from just about anywhere. Your local hard drives, Flickr, Facebook etc.

VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/http://www.apple.com/safari/

The video player of video players, yet to find a video that it won’t play.

Chrome, Firefox and Safari

In order of preference, an alternative browser is not only for web dev stuff but Google Chrome is easily my default browser of choice.

Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome/

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

Safari: http://www.apple.com/safari/

WinRar

www.rarlab.com

Alternative for zipping files, the rar format kicks butt over zip! This program will handle both among others.

Speedfan

almico.com/speedfan.php

Heat is one of the biggest causes of PC damage and often contributes to poor performance, so running without Speedfan is like driving without a speedo. Gives you the temperature of your core components.

Sizer

brianapps.net/sizer

Resizes any window to set sizes, great for large screens. Right click on the max/min/close buttons and select a size.

IETester

www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

This one is just for the web dev, cross browser testing for multiple IE version.

Rainmeter

rainmeter.net/RainCMS/

The ultimate in desktop customising, I love this program. It doesn’t have much of a UI and to be honest I prefer to edit the ini files directly as it is intended, but it certainly makes your desktop look like a masterpiece.