eject cd in mac book pro

today I insert a DVD into my macbook pro but no response… it really make scare.

OK.. no panic.. googling and here is the answer (extracted from macrumors.com – http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD )

# Open Disk Utility and choose the disc you wish to eject in the left-hand pane, then click on the Eject button.
# Some Macintoshes have a paperclip hole that you can insert a straightened paperclip into, manually triggering the eject mechanism.
# Open Terminal and type “drutil tray eject” to eject the disc/tray, and “drutil tray close” to close the tray.

Flight of the conchrods

The mighty Comedy duo (Bret and Jemaine) New Zerland. Their lyrics is really funny. And the most I like their music.

Some performance I like on I found on youtube.
Flight Of the Conchords – Jenny

Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead

( especially like binary solo – 00010001… and like my battery. )

Flight of the Conchords – Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

Flight of the Conchords Ep 3 Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

Flight of the Conchords Ep 6 Bowie’s In Space

(is it tribute to bowie?? )

Amazing – stop motion animation

In dig into youtube, my attention  focused  on the stop motion animation/file.

The idea is simple, you take a 1000 pictures on an objection and and glue them together and play in ~24 frame per second. Everyone can do it using your webcam (of course it takes long time). But you just cannot image how hobbyist can take it into this extreme.

super awesome..

favicon – online favicon creator

favicon.cc is a Online favicon creator. It is fast and easy to use (even in compare with icon creator program).

I am used this site to build icon for my google site, highly recommend!

Google Sites – ultimate site builder

Just came up “Google Sites” last week, but it is good, I can stop playaround on it.

Quick summary, with “Google Sites” you can;

• build “rich” website
• colllect all you info in one place
• collarate with other
• support goolge gadget

Quick introduction from goolge

At first, it look likes other site builder tool like “wordpress”. However, it is very intrinsic and easy to use.  You have no difficult to build you site with file download, and blog like page. You can even add goolge doc / spreadsheet.

And best of all, it is host by google, you don’t need to worry about hosting and networking ….. (hurry)

Another great thing of goolge sites is, it is much more customizable than you think. They are not document but you can goolge to find out a lot tweaking.

The best I like is the “The Unofficial Google Sites Help Center” . For example, you can find out how to add favicon in you sites.

Here is sample site prepare by me : )

(captured by webshot)

Text to Speech Site

I’m not native english speaker, it is a bit difficult to speak word correctly.

And I find this Text to speech site is rather useful.

It is AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech Demo Site.

Just types in your word, it returns wav and say in beautiful voice.  It has more than ten voice for you and my favorite is Cystal (ths first one).

Gundam 1/1 scale – dream comes true

really amazing working… 1:1 scale gundam in standing position.

G10 – update / comments

after using Canon G10 for few months, it is really great camera.

Pro:

• Lot of settings, fun to play with
• Really Great LCD display (best I ever see in Consumer DC)
• Support Great RAW Format
• Support Manually Focus

Cons:

• Picture is not that good if display in Large Screen or in actually picture (especially when compare with my old IXUS 700)
• AutoFocus is not accurate in indoor or not enough light source, here I find MF is the solution (even it is not that trivial to use)
• Noise is still high in High ISO
• the eye viewer is not correct => almost useless ( I am rather disappointed with it)

Canon G10

Just purchased Canon G10. It is nice (but not little) DC.

It is bigger and heavier than normal DC, but with more switches, you can change options without go via the menu.

And the picture quality is quite good, especially the warm nature color in compare with other companies.

But the downside is (same as other small DC), the noise level is higher when using high-iso.

Sample photos

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.