Stolen iPhone? your data will be erased!

October 15th, 2008

Today I was reading the bug fixes and improvements of the new 2.1 iPhone update, and I’ve discovered a new interesting functionality.

If somebody stolen your iPhone and you have it locked by a code, all your data will be wiped if the thief fails ten (10) times to unlock it.

iPhone 3G lock options

iPhone 3G lock options

Workflows and Professional photography

October 11th, 2008

I’ve read a great article by Patrick Lavoie on Photo.net, Patrick is a professional digital photographer that describes her personal and unique workflow to make and process her pictures.

Digital Photography Workflow: Fashion Photography, by Patrick Lavoie

I’m very “obsessed” with workflows, I have always thought that using them helps you perfecting your techniques and doing new and creative things.

In this article, Patrick Lavoie discusses his unique digital workflow process tailored to meet the needs of his professional career as a photo retoucher and digi-tech working with high-end fashion photographers, the set of software and tools he prefers to use, and goals he accomplishes with his digital workflow. The article is enhanced with illustrative figures and screen shots, and includes examples of photo retouched jobs from Patrick Lavoie’s portfolio. Whether you are just entering the world of digital photography and need some tips and advice on how best to post-process your images, or are a seasoned pro, the insights shared here should be helpful with your own digital photography workflow and fashion photography post-processing.

Pixologic ZBrush 3.12 Now available for Apple MacOSX

September 30th, 2008

The latest version of ZBrush, v3.12 is now available for MacOSX platform, you can read the full announcement here.

Interview with Rich Hurrey from Pixar

September 29th, 2008

Today I recommend this 25min video with an Interview to Rich Hurrey (2006), from Pixar, a nice training video for 3d modeling beginners.

This interview was conducted for Siggraph 2006. Brad and Rich discuss his career path up to Pixar as well as some in depth discussion of hard surface modeling with subdivision surfaces.

Luxology Rich Hurrey from Pixar, interview

Luxology Rich Hurrey from Pixar, interview

Watch it in Luxology website | Interview with Rich Hurrey of Pixar

Introduction to High Definition and Blu-Ray authoring

September 29th, 2008

I’ve always been a fan of audio and video compressing, codecs, technologies, etc… always trying to get the best possible AV quality in less space, but now, as spending so many weeks and months working, coding and taking pictures, I’ve forgotten a little bit all of this.

That’s why doing some search, I’ve found Iniciación a la HD (alta definición) y a la autoría Blu-Ray (in Spanish) from the videoedicion.org blog (a site with excelent articles and documentation about Video editting)

A great article where the author explains lots of things about High Definition and Blu-Ray technology, a must-read for everyone interested in this world.

Blu-ray logo

Blu-ray logo

StillMotion, breakthrough performance wedding works

September 22nd, 2008

If you are planning your wedding and you want to get a great photo and/or a cinematographic video work, StillMotion is one of the best you can find all around… watch this one!


Julia + Phillip SDE - Toronto May 31st from StillMotion on Vimeo.

You can watch more StillMotion wedding videos here

My theory about downloading fakes from P2P

September 20th, 2008

I’m sure that you have downloaded a porn movie sometime, thinking that its a normal theater movie, probably through eMule or similars.

Well, this is called a fake, and people think that they are created with the purpose to confuse the users, to make a joke or with bad intentions.

I think that there’s another possibility… imagine you are working with your computer and your eMule is opened, downloading, and you really want to get porn movies but without your friends can see that, what the people does? they rename “Some.Porn.Movie.XXX.avi” to “Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.3.avi”, and doing that, other P2P users that are really interested in “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, they end up downloading a porn movie.

SplutterFish launches “The Ghost of Ghost Challenge”

September 19th, 2008

SplutterFish, the creators of Brazil Rendering System (originally called Ghost), just launched a new and interesting challenge while they are creating some really interesting new technology, called: The Ghost of Ghost Challenge: Render Like it’s the Year 2000 

Hurry up! deadline is in October 15, and there are big prizes!

More information here

BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with iTunes 8 and Windows Vista

September 12th, 2008

Just updated my iPhone 3G with the new 2.1 firmware and installed iTunes 8 on my Sony VAIO laptop, I have this Sony VAIO for 6 months and this is the first time I see a Blue Screen of Death just after the first iPhone sync with this new firmware.

The truth is that there is a compatibility problem with the new iTunes version, but Apple has released a revised version that solves the problem, you can download it here.

First, disconnect your iPod/iPhone from your PC, then uninstall iTunes 8 and Apple Mobile Device and then, reinstall the recently downloaded iTunes from Apple.

It seems that the problem is caused by a new driver that Apple has replaced with the old iTunes 7.7 version.

Via: Guizmodo

Hackers at CERN’s LHC

September 12th, 2008

A Greek group of hackers attacked the CERN’s website and displayed a page with the text “‘GST: Greek Security Team.’”

The hackers did not arrived at the level of the LHC control, but they where “one step away”

Here is a screen capture of the attack (click to see a large version)

Greek hackers attack the CERN's LHC

Greek hackers attack the CERN

More information at the Telegraph