Photography, random posts and very little about kebabs.
Yes, it happened. Finally got my thumb out my arse and finished of that project.
Although the gallery looks the same I’ve made a few changes including rollover thumbnails, Linked images and a slideshow. All in wonderful Javascript!
The initial thumbnail is the black and white image, rolling over to the new colour thumb (using onMouseOver and onMouseOut).
Try it, you might like it!
I dunno what it is at the moment. Everything I try fails. The Airport Express seems to be no exception to this rule. Though interestingly the update applied to the MacBook (802.11n) seems to have a strange effect on my old (now re-instated) Wifi, it seems to kill the wireless on my router.
Having setup wireless on the MacMini it simultaneously kills both Airports.
Anyway, back to the Express. Things seemed fine, until the constant drops in the network. Then for some reason I was unable to access the express via the Airport Utility. So pissed off with the lastest in the line of failing electronics it’s gone back in the box. Ready to return to Solihull. This is where I’ll find out what the store are like at returns.
/edit: Not too sure if iStumbler is the issue with killing my router. However the Airport Express was dropping out before I used iStumbler (which was to see if the network was still present).
Bleedin wifi, up and down like a prostitutes draws.
Anyway, decided to kill off my router wifi as it’s been well a bit pants for years. Time for a dedicated unit.
Obviously it’s made by Apple.
Behold Airport Express……
Nice product, works well. But apple seem to like these plug adapters. Which fine except it makes the bleeding thing stick out 4 inches or so. By sticking out I can actually install it where I want too. So I’ll have to buy an Apple power cord. However I can’t find the sodding thing on the website. I know exactly what I need cos my MacBook uses one. And I need to use it with that.
/update: Spoke to people at the Apple store and they gave me a cable free of charge. It’s an old spare, but really really happy with the excellent service. Thanks Apple Birmingham!
Irrasshaimase!
Actually no idea if anyone from Japan reads this, but I’m bored and I like to think I’ve got global appeal!
Why Japan, well I’ve always wanted to go and looking at some books I’ve got to learn Japanese (not touched in a while 🙁 ) makes me think more about the world. I’ve actually learnt some important Japanese phrases over the years.
Biiru o kudasai – I’d like a beer, please.
Chiizu sando o kudasai – Cheese sandwich etc…….
So you’ll agree all important stuff. If I found myself in Japan tomorrow I wouldn’t starve, I might get pissed though. Need to practice Miruku tii o kudasai (tea with milk).
Combining Biiru and piza with ‘to’ makes Beer and pizza please. So I’ve not lost the little I learnt!
I was hopeless with the Japanese scripting (kanji) though.
Tonight I’ve gone mad. 5 A4 prints!!!!!
(The other print is on another wall and I CBA to take a picture of that one. Despite it being a stunning image).
Nothing special, just a few images I like. But noticed tonight how much better prints are than screen shots. You can’t tell from here, but the Hawk shot is great (imo). So I guess this might be a start of more printing. Well, the costs of anything above A4 can start to get prohibitive. I’ve still got plenty of paper though. Well plenty of Hi-Res and Matt Photo paper. The latter being good for some images.
Currently at a milestone with the old Canon s750 printer. Now it must be 5 years old now, but it still provides decent quality (Close up you can tell it’s an Inkjet print, but how often do you get a loupe on a print?).
However It’ll soon need a refill. Though the cartridges are reasonable prices (around £5.50 from 7Dayshop) a total of around £25 (inc postage) for the 3 colours and the black. £25 could be 75-90% the cost of a newer, better printer. Decisions, decisions. Plus I still need to shift my none Mac compatible HP LaserJet 1020. Yep, for some things Apple ‘doesn’t just work’, though this isn’t Apples or HP fault, they never got round to writing a driver for it. Seems it’s a common trait with this laser chassis (tis used by many other vendors).