iPhone 4S as Webcam

I wanted to stream some osu! and TypeRacer, but I wanted to show my hands while doing so, so I needed a webcam. I realized I had a iPhone 4S lying around, and then I remembered that I have in the past used it as a webcam.So I took

We like the 4" iPhones!

By coincidence I happened to see a ad with the most popular phones in Sweden according to Prisjakt (which is a price comparison site, literally Pricehunt) and I found it interesting. I don't care much about the Android phones, I've never heard of the HTC 10

CGP Grey's Mechanical iPad

Linked Post Speaking of CGP Grey I found this blog post of his really interesting: using a mechanical keyboard with his iPad. I kinda wanna get a CCK1 now too. 1

Cortex - one of my favorite podcasts

All week working, I have been listening to Cortex. It's starting to become one of my favorite podcasts. I am really fascinated by, and interested in CGP Grey's work antics, how he works in blocks, preferring an iPad, listening to the same song over and over

Reduce Motion & Reduce Transparency

Not that my iPhone or iPad are slow, but they still get a lot faster by enabling these options. But where it had the most effect was on my Watch. Navigating on there is a lot faster now.

Snazzy Labs' Mac Mini Hackintosh

Linked Post I really like this buiid, and the photos and video he took for it is also very crisp and nicely editted. He keeps his points short and right to the point, just as I like it. He also released a new video today talking about how it has

The Bright, Kauffman, Crane Logo

Ah yes, the writers of Friends had their own logo at the end of each episode. I didn't think much of it. When I watched the show on Netflix I didn't care about it. I just noticed it looked pretty and colorful. Then I got the

Some more graphs about Friends blu-ray transcodes

If you didn't have enough from my previous post about this, here's more! I finished transcoding them again! This time using the --small preset in transcode-video. The file sizes are almost halved and honestly the quality isn't noticably worse. You'd think it

SSHD only makes sense in a PS4

Not happy with the performance of a SSHD in my PC. Using it as a Steam drive was terrible - GTA V took forever to load. So I tried moving OS X over to it and using it for that, as I always think OS X works best when it

Migrations

Today I spent a lot of time migrating data back and forth. It started with me wanting to remove the 1 TB SSHD I had in my PS4, and putting back in a regular HDD in there. Why? Well I don't play the PS4 enough and I don&

Some graphs about transcoding Friends episodes from Blu-ray

I finally finished transcoding all the Friends episodes from Blu-ray (How? How I Rip My DVDs & Blu-rays) I created a little python script that will Mine Data from the .log files transcode-video creates and it will spit out data in tabular form that is easily imported into Excel (Apple

How to get audio in Plex Media Player on Raspberry Pi 2

For some dumb reason they still haven't fixed this dumb bug... * SSH into your Pi. The username is root, password is plex. * Do these commands to open up config.txt in nano: mount -o remount,rw /flash and nano /flash/config.txt * Go to the bottom of config.

Why doesn't cp have a progress bar like wget?

Linked Post Decided to look this up when I was copying a couple of gigabytes of files to my NAS using the cp command. The main idea is that in Unix you only want messages if something goes wrong. Which is fine. But I found this extra interesting: The practical

Harmy's Star Wars Despecialized Edition v2.7 Released

Linked Post Lots of improvements, especially with the color tones.We'll see if it replaces my copy of the Silver Screen edition. May the fourth be with you..

Considering mITX

Kinda gotten the urge for mITX again. They're so cute! Bitfenix Prodigy build, without a graphics card Fractal Design Nano build So I've been scouting for cases and motherboards today if I were to convert to a mITX build. My first question was: should I sell

Xbox (D)one

I'm done with the Xbox One. I was just cleaning my room and I decided to clean up some stuff around the TV setup and I decided to get rid of the Xbox One. It was just taking up space, dusting a lot, and I used it once

Dynamic sitemap with PHP

I needed to create a sitemap for my blog. Upon googling I learned that every single blog post I make needs to be in that sitemap, so I took my Archive page, which basically lists all my blog posts and modified it a little: <?phpinclude 'lib/getPostData.php&

VPN Server on Mac without OS X Server

Linked Post I found this great tutorial on how to set up a VPN Server on your Mac, in my case a Mac Mini that I have running 24/7 for Plex, without paying $20 for OS X Server. I successfully did it running regular OS X Yosemite 10.10.

How I Rip My DVDs & Blu-rays

Dec 2017: There is an updated version here: https://lambdan.se/207. I'll keep this old version around too though, for historical purposes, and because it has some screenshots and is somewhat more educational. If you follow me on Twitter you know I talk a lot about ripping

Post-Series Depression

Linked Post I always knew there was a term for this feeling. Shows I've felt it for: * Friends (probably hit me the hardest) * That 70s Show * Orange is the new black (after each season, as you have to wait a year for the next season) * Mythbusters * Seinfeld * Two

PS4 Remote Play To PC Impressions

Not as good as Steam In-home streaming. But not bad either, especially with Ethernet. Methodology I used three games to test: Bloodborne, Destiny and Hotline Miami. Bloodborne I picked because it's the game I currently play most on my PS4 and it's a PS4 exclusive. Destiny

Plex Pass Review

As a big time Plex user I decided to finally get a month of Plex Pass to see how it is. Let's look at what you get first, and then we'll talk about some of them individually. Taken from here and here:: * Trailers & Extras * Mobile

HDMI Audio Extractor from DealXtreme Compatibility & Review (Updated)

A while back I bought this little device, hoping to get 5.1 sound from all my HDMI devices into my soundbar. Now I got it, and here's what I think about it. Build Quality & Setup The unit came in a nice little box well wrapped and

Where's Week X? (Week 13)

What happened to Week 12? Is there gonna be a Week 13? Short answer: probably not. I stopped writing them because it wasn't fun anymore. When I first started, I wanted to have something always write because I enjoyed writing then. And I still enjoy writing but not

Windows XP Ninite fix (Installers not working, page not displaying in IE 6)

I tried installing Windows XP on a old laptop today, and for some reason, Ninite installers would not work and IE 6 could not even visit ninite.com. Solution: Install IE 8. You can download it here.