Archive for January, 2011

Little Snitch is half off for another day or so

Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Little Snitch
An example of the kind of warning dialog that Little Snitch pops up every time an application attempts to communicate with the outside world. The software allows you to set up rules and filters for the outgoing internet communications of your applications.
When applications running on my mac attempt to send information back to servers on the net, I like to be informed. I also like to have the opportunity to block such communication when I feel it’s of questionable utility or I don’t trust the motives of the software developer. If you live at or beyond my level of paranoia, you might be interested in buying yourself a copy of Little Snitch, it’s available on a site called MacUpdate for half price for another day or two, $14.99.

I get no kickbacks or referral fees from providing this link, I just think it’s a useful piece of software and it’s not normally available at this price.

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On the streets of Hengdian, China

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Rachel encounters a sidewalk butcher shop on the streets of Hengdian. Hengdian is a 4 hour drive from Shanghai. Many movies and TV shows are filmed on the town’s huge sets, which include a full-scale1 replica of Beijing’s forbidden city.

Shot with a Canon 550D/T2i running the Magic Lantern firmware. Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens, Steadicam Merlin. Internal mics for audio, one channel without digital gain, one with about 18db.

If you are so inclined, you can download the video and watch it in higher quality from its vimeo page.

  1. I’d venture it’s actually 4/5ths scale, but it’s pretty huge [↩]

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