DIY: FlashRing

Adding a ring flash to your DSLR is a real nice way off adding a soft glow to your portrait images. Problem is that professional ring flashes can cost you a lot of money. DIYPhotography.com has a simple solution if you want to play around with a ring flash but aren’t ready to commit the [...]

Hotlink Prevention In Nginx

Hotlinking, inline linking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking or offsite image grabs. No matter what you call it 99% of the time it’s wrong. Bandwidth costs money. I spent sometime over the holidays examining my logs and noticed that there were a ton of sites hotlinking back to images we had posted. Worst of all, most [...]

DIY Image Stabilizer

A crafty Instructables users has figured out that by using a pair of spining hard drives you can create the same gyroscopic effect that the pros use to keep their cameras nice and steady. A camera stabilizer is perfect for taking those steady shots when your conditions might be less than favorable for doing so, [...]

Nintendo DS On Your Mac Or PC

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator for the Mac and for the PC that gives you the full functionality of the DS; buttons, touchscreen interface and even the Wi-Fi connectivity.  It’s feature packed and allows you to play both Homebrew games and ROM images. It also offers some extra features that are not available on a [...]

Hunt Down Wi Fi Leeches With MoocherHunter

Last week we showed you how to screw with people who were stealing your Wi Fi signal by flipping their browsers and blurring their images. Today we show you how to hunt those Wi Fi moochers. The problem with leaving your Wi Fi unprotected is that malicious people can use it to download illegal files [...]

Baffle WiFi Leeches With An Upside-Down-Ternet

Have you ever had someone leach off your Wi Fi? You could always encrypt it or use any multitude of tricks to hide your network, but why would you do that when you can have some serious fun with them. Blur their images, or flip them upside down to get them really scratching their heads. [...]

Chinavision’s Projector Cellphone

3M just announced that their MPro110 tiny projector would hit the market in late September. This was awesome news for people who are on the road a lot and have to lug around projectors to do presentations. But did you know that Chinavision is already selling a tiny projector? Built into a cell phone no-less. [...]

Change Can Be Good

Someone somewhere once said that change can be both scary and good, well we have undergone some small changes that have instilled both those feeling in us here at tech.nocr.at. Syndication Some of you might have already noticed the new syndication images off to the right sidebar. Since I have received many emails asking if [...]

MacBundleBox: 15 Apps, $50

It’s time for another Mac bundle deal, this time MacBundleBox is offering 15 Mac apps for $49.95. That’s an 85% discount overall. The apps included in the package are: Headline – A full-featured RSS/ATOM feed reader with an ultra-minimal UI. Mac Pilot 3 – A system optimization and customization utility. iConquer – A game not [...]

How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx And WP Super Cache

Edit: Fixes suggested in the comments have been applied to this howto We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. [...]

GIFAR Image Vulnerability

Researchers at NGS Software have developed a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When the picture is viewed, the malicious code embed in the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook, Myspace, or Digg are particularly at risk, but the researches say that any site which [...]

3G, GPS, MobileMe, Oh My

After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]

FeedJournal: RSS Feeds Like A Newspaper

Not one who cares about the convenience of RSS feeds? Do you really not care about the amount of trees that are saved just by using RSS? Then FeedJournal is just right for you. FeedJournal is a new service that allows you to create a newspaper like pdf from your RSS feeds. The layout looks [...]

Leaked Screen Shots Of Windows 7

Could these be the first screen shots of the upcoming Windows 7? These screen shots appeared on a Chinese forum. No one has yet been able to confirm if these are real, but you never know, Microsoft is very secretive about the upcoming replacement to Vista. They do look a lot like Vista, but this [...]

Automator Image Tweaking

When you write for a blog one of the most time consuming things you do, besides actually working on the text, is to work on images. Resizing, cropping, etc.. The guys at tuaw have come up with a pretty easy step by step on creating an Automator plugin that will allow you to manipulate images [...]

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