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About the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

Posted: 16th December 2011 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement The name is misleading. The original idea of ACTA is to internationally protect intellectual property. It’s supposed to help prevent product & trademark counterfeiting like fake copies of expensive goods – misusing trademarks, like using using a [...]

Yet another timelapse ;P , this time acropolis..

Posted: 14th December 2011 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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I also made my scripts a little less retarded They do not alter at all the files in the FOLDER directory They just do the resize operation and then call the encoder.. TimelapseScripts.tar Usage ..! Step 1) Extract the scripts on a directory ( on a linux machine etc etc.. [ see last post for [...]

Creating timelapse videos on Linux

Posted: 12th December 2011 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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In the past weeks I started to take timelapse photographs using my Nikon D-7000 camera and ffmpeg and image magick video and picture converters..! My camera has a built in intervalometer that I use to acquire the pictures , but lower-end cameras that do not have this kind of functionality can be “hacked” with an [...]

The Lightbulb Conspiracy and the merchants of cool

Posted: 9th December 2011 by Ammar Qammaz in Post

The Lightbulb Conspiracy The merchants of cool

Bias lighting for monitor

Posted: 30th November 2011 by Ammar Qammaz in Post
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After I read this blog post it occured to me that I should really do something about my monitor.. I spend 8+ hours every day ( on average ) in front of it and it is true that it can be tiring sometimes. I too purchased an IKEA Ledberg Led strip and an additional very [...]