Marcus Mattsson » Hardware

iPhone Application: Copenhagen Mirror

Marcus — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:21:52 +0000

I’m now on the 5th semester of Medialogy, and we’re currently developing an iPhone application. The application lets the user use the iPhone as a camera that looks back in time, i.e. if you’re standing at Christiansborg in Copenhagen and (…)

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Bad Design:Sony’s PlayStation 3 Remote

Marcus — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:33:19 +0000

I got my PlayStation 3 which is great and all, and I also ordered the Bluetooth remote. Already when I ordered it I winced at the horrible, horrible design choices and they’re even more apparent now that I’ve used it (…)

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Jailbreaking my iPhone

Marcus — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:00:59 +0000

I’ve recently started considering jailbreaking my iPhone because I’ve started getting these spam calls from Somalia – sometimes 15 calls per night – and I know that there’s a jailbreak app which makes it possible to block calls. So, after (…)

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Image Processing and Motion Tracking

Marcus — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:47:44 +0000

One month into the 3rd semester, and I finally feel like I’m learning something useful. We’ve had a lot of programming classes, focusing on C++ and OpenCV, a computer vision library focusing on real-time image processing. The point of all (…)

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Windows Search, you fail

Marcus — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:31:23 +0000

How do you fuck this up?

I bought something new

Marcus — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:22:48 +0000

I’ve been wanting to replace my trusted MacBook for a while, mainly because we’ve started using more memory-consuming software at school, and it’s just no cutting it. I’ve reluctantly started looking a PCs and Windows-laptops, something I can afford at (…)

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Old School Editing

Marcus — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:29:51 +0000

Michael Kahn, editor on most Spielberg movies still edits movies using a Flatbed editor: And a Moviola: He edited Munich with this equipment, and won an Oscar for it. Pretty bad ass.

My Xbox is back

Marcus — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:47:43 +0000

With a new and improved BENQ DVD drive even.

My Xbox has been fixed

Marcus — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:09:35 +0000

… or replaced, hopefully the last. This is kind of surprising, I sent it a week ago and it’s already done now. I hope this is a sign that they just replaced it with a new model. Either way, I (…)

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IT FUCKING HAPPENED AGAIN!

Marcus — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:03:58 +0000

I haven’t played Xbox very much in a while, but now Fallout 3 and Mirror’s Edge are finally out. Today when I turned on my Xbox this is what happened: I JUST BOUGHT MIRROR’S EDGE YESTERDAY FOR FUCKS SAKE! This (…)

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