IT Guru and Amateur Photographer
Archive for August, 2009
FreeNX – Ubuntu LogMeIn
Aug 24th
Recently, I blogged about a method of remote controlling your Linux home pc from another location via the Internet.
(http://john-willis.com/2009/07/logmein-for-ubuntu/)
What I didn’t mention was FreeNX:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX More >
Lucky Lucky Photographer…
Aug 12th
Lucky photographer at Knockhill, Scotland…
This guy was lucky to be alive…. just goes to show, slick tires and rain do not mix…
Closeup Filters For DSLR’s
Aug 12th
Well I thought I’d throw in my 2 cents worth about these type of filters…
I have been using my Nikon DSLR for approx 9 months now and I love it… but sometimes it is difficult to get the level of detail I want from my standard 18-55mm AF-S lens.
This is where Macro comes into it, however a 105mm AF-S Micro (Macro) lens is approx £550 from Nikon… quite a lot of money for something that I don’t use all the time…
The answer? A Closeup filter set off eBay – £15 delivered.
Chatsworth House
Aug 12th
On Monday me and Chloe went for a visit to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. The day was fantastic with lots to see and some beautiful gardens…
Whats more it only cost us £10 for tickets to the house and gardens with a special promo code..
This is what you need to do..
Visit Chatsworth before November 09 and get 2 full priced combined house and garden tickets for the price of 1.
Go to www.chatsworth.org and enter the promotional code ‘MovieMap1′ at the checkout when you purchase your tickets on line.
With the code it makes adult tickets £5.20 each.
Adult £5.20
OAP/students £8.55
Child
Aged 4 to 16 inclusive, 3 and under are free £5.65
Ghostery – Firefox Add-On
Aug 8th
A lot of websites will track or monitor what you do or where you go online. Basically, so that the authors can get an understanding of their audiences, so that trends can be gathered for additional content, advertising or any other type of profitable gain.
There used to be an Internet Explorer Add-on called EyeDecide, many years ago, which allowed you to stop certain websites loading monitoring cookies or scripts.
Well, for FireFox, here is Ghostery!