Sightings of the macaw

Alexander Stevens

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Kieth Loutit - A collection of tilt shift movies

Filmed in Sydney, using the docks, the fabulous harbour and Mardi Gras celebrations as his canvas Kieth Loutit explores tilt shift in full motion giving both a child like and possibly God like perspective to the world we live in. Read the rest of this entry »

Glitchy and jumpy jQuery/jCarousel animation

I came across a particularly bizarre bug when working on the new Fluke website. It seemed to appear from nowhere mid-project and manifested itself in a rather odd animation glitch.

I had set up a couple of jCarousel arrays and found that one one page (which had it’s won unique styling) the carousel animation seemed to glitch, dragging the background with it in a jumpy, jaggedy manner.

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How to install wireless USB drivers for Ubuntu

Problem: Wireless USB  adapter doesn’t work on Ubuntu. Belkin and Dynamode wireless adapters

Background: Since I can neither afford the luxury of an Apple OS or stand any longer the bloated and slow Windows I thought it was about time to try out Linux on a computer at home. Since the majority of use of this home computer will be browser based (and since soon I believe a great deal of applications will be browser based) I figured that there was nothing to stop me giving it a go.

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