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Entries for August, 2011

Introducing geofences on Flickr! « Flickr Blog

More control of your geotagging I like to geotag photos for public viewing. Geotagging is the process of embedding GPS information about the location that the photo was taken into the photo file. Sounds complicated, but most camera phones can do this automatically. Why is this helpful? Well it provides others with meaningful information on the [...]

iTunes home sharing, dlink routers and multicast

    Home sharing     Introduction I have been tinkering with network audio. So far I had been just streaming The audio around the home but now I want to actually move it for higher bitrate conversion. The goal is to play high bit rate files on a laptop for local DAC. Thereby preserving the highest quality [...]

Notes on computer backup

Over the years I have had more than my share of hard drive failures. As more and more of our lives are in the form of digital photos and videos, a dead drive without backups creates a lot of frustration and lost memories. Fortunately I have not had any significant data loss in over ten [...]