Idea: A spectrogram for videos • 27 Sep 2025
I was driving home after work and I had a vague idea: what if I could represent a video with an image where the X axis was ‘time’ and the Y-axis was something that represented the images (it was this...
Creating my first Jetbrains plugin with Junie and Kotlin • 19 Sep 2025
TL;DR: I created a Jetbrains plugin in Kotlin, a language I don’t master, with Jetbrains’ own Junie AI Agent.
It went quite easy, and now I have my first published plugin in the Jetbrains marketplace.
Source code: toolstud-io/LlmBrains
Prompt Parlour • 04 Sep 2025
TL;DR: I am starting a community with in-person events for discussing A.I. First one will happen in Oct/Nov 2025. Join the mailing list at Prompt Parlour if you are interested.
Using A.I. to follow and summarize news • 16 Jun 2024
As I’ve mentioned before, I am doing a lot of research into using A.I. to facilitate cinema advertising operations.
Let me tell you about a recent experiment I did with a movie news analysis tool.
Using A.I. for video quality control • 25 May 2024
I’m doing lots of research these days on using A.I. (generative or other) in the daily operations of cinema advertising, which is my area of expertise. Let me tell you about one topic I recently explored: using artificial intelligence models...
Now I Can Just Print That Video • 01 Dec 2023
It all started with Instagram Reels showing me too many yummy cooking videos. I wanted to try some recipes out myself. But I didn’t want to have to keep my phone in the kitchen, and I didn’t want to have...
Best way to upscale low resolution photos • 04 Jul 2020
I’ve been doing some remote shoots recently, as the photographer obviously, and I’ve mainly used FaceTime ‘Live photos’ for captures. The result of such a shoot is a series of .HEIC files (it’s an Apple thing). Each file is a...
Idea: short-term unified group messaging enterprise • 08 Jul 2016
I was driving for 6 hours the other day and my wife was asleep, so what does one do: work out the details for a new kind of hosted communication service in my head.
Shooting portraits of strangers • 13 Jan 2011
This was quite a discovery: Danny Santos has been shooting portraits of complete strangers on Orchard Road, Singapore. The story was featured on JPG Magazine with some beautiful examples and that post pointed to his Facebook album, which pointed to...
Fix for error -15000 Remote speakers on iTunes / Windows 7 • 22 Oct 2010
So, just to be clear: this is not about iTunes on MacOSX, it’s only about iTunes 10 on Windows 7. It might work on Windows Vista, but I have no PC with Vista to test. It might help on versions...
DROA: the saga continues • 22 Sep 2010
This post is about my dealing with the company DROA / Domain Registry of America. I first wrote about them in Dec 2004: “Domain Registry of America scam“: they had sent me letters to urgently advise me to renew my...
Focal length for the common man: "portrait distance" • 01 Feb 2010
I remember that before I started photography on a serious level, I had some understanding of shutter speed, but none of aperture and focal length. Even when I read what they meant, I still couldn´t ‘picture’ it, had no feeling...
Don’t send me a video, send me a link • 29 Jan 2009
I know, there are so many ‘funny’ videos you just have to share with your friends. So you send them an email. But for god’s sake, not with a 5MB movie in attachment! For all you know, he/she might not...
Apple trailers: when 720p isn’t always 720p • 28 Feb 2008
One of the best places to look for high-quality movie trailers is Apple Trailers. They have lots of bandwidth and a large selection (altough they don’t have e.g. the new Indiana Jones 4 trailers, which are exclusively on Yahoo HD...
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