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iPhone HDR Video: How the Heck Do I Work With This?
For a while now, iPhone’s have shot video in Dolby Vision HDR (High Dynamic Range) by default. This means you have a wider range of color in your videos, as well as a wider range of brightness. HDR is nice because you can have very bright and very dark areas in a single video. Below…
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2023 Annular Eclipse Photos
Recently, there was an annular solar eclipse in my area. I was able to get some cool photos of it. The photos actually turned out pretty well, especially since I took them with my phone. I used an app called Halide and covered my phone’s camera in solar glasses. If you want to download all…
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Get Your PC Outta the Cloud!
I was browsing the inter-webs a few days ago when I saw this Mastodon post by KDE. #Microsoft wants to move #Windows fully to the cloud. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy Don’t let them force you to log on to their servers to monitor and control you every time you need your computer. Take back your desktop! Use Plasma!…
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(APRIL FOOLS) Introducing JimmyNet➕
UPDATE: Just in case it wasn’t clear—this was an April Fools joke. JimmyNet will continue to be completely free, with no ads, and no sale of personal information. This is a satire post meant to make fun of the commercialization of the internet and how everyone want’s you to buy a subscription to stuff. Here…
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How I Read the News 📰
I try to keep up with current events, but the way most people do it is just plain wrong. Why You’re Reading the News Wrong Here is a nice table of why most people read the news wrong: What people do Why it is wrong Get their news from social media. It is biased by…
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Jimmy’s Blog Gets a New Theme!
🎄 Merry Christmas! I’ve rolled out a new theme for my blog. New Stuff And of course, it’s still the same blog you know and love. And if you want to read it in whatever theme you want you can always get the RSS feed at the bottom of every post.
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JimmyNet Goes Metric (And other International Standards)
The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the greatest inventions of mankind. It allows for dynamic documents and apps that all link to each other. For instance, I can easily write a blog about the WWW and easily point you to more information about it. However, many forget the “world wide” aspect of the…
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Fancy New Emoji
UPDATE 22-12-2022: Twemoji has still not been updated to Emoji 15.0 and Twitter (who makes Twemoji) is in chaos. It is not certain whether it will be updated. I have updated the website to use Noto Emoji. These are not the color emoji you may be used to, but I think they fit the site…
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My WWDC22 Predictions
Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference is coming this Monday. Here are my predictions for what will be announced. UPDATE: well my predictions were not totally right. oh well. iPhone They will announce the iPhone 14. I will be about the same as the iPhone 13 but with a slightly better camera, marginally faster CPU, and…
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Podcasting: A Rare Beacon of Online Freedom
Podcasts. I like podcasts. You like podcasts (if not why are you reading this?). We all like podcasts. But podcasts are not simply a new form of online content, they are one of the few things that Big Tech hasn’t managed to take over. Much of the internet is monopolized. If you want to make…