December 8, 2009

Camera of near future prediction

I predict cameras in the near future will begin shipping with wireless , 3G antennas or both. The cameras will be tied into social networking sites so that you can take photos of events and upload them as they happen. There will be a settings page in your camera to enter your Facebook, Myspace or Flickr account info. An option would be available to auto upload all photos taken or to prompt the user after each photo is taken for upload, and finally an option to just bypass that and worry about the uploading only when you are in review mode. The camera will auto resize (user setting on adjusting size) the photos and upload in the background so you can live blog events without thought. I know some cameras today already have built in wireless and can upload directly to a computer or an FTP, but the cameras that have those features are attached to SLRs, usually coming as an add-on . They are mainly for professionals wanting to instantly review photos during photo shoots, not for frat boys wanting to live blog a kegger.

October 13, 2009

iPhone 3.2 Wishes (Updated)

Before I had an iPhone, I had just your average flip phone, didn’t care if it had a web browser on it or if it did anything else besides just have a decent battery life. This summer I finally took the plunge and bought my first Apple product ever, the iPhone 3GS. I had been waiting for some time for them to come out with a version with more storage before I even considered getting one and 32GB was just good enough for me (64Gb would have really been the sweet spot). So far I’ve been pretty happy with the phone , not counting all the AT&T issues.

October 4, 2009

Reserved block space

Normally when a partition fills up, you remove some files, freeing up some space and watch your disk usage drop in

df -h

The first time recently I ran into a situation where that wasn’t the case. I had filled up my root partition and after removing some files and moving some others to another partition I noticed no change in my output of

df -h

Applications were crashing since they couldn’t write to the partition but I knew I had removed at least a few GB’s worth of data. What gives?