Jenneth Orantia

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How to Do It Yourself! April 3, 2008

Hack Your Canon Camera

Got a Canon point-and-shoot? If the answer’s yes, you might have a more powerful camera on your hands than you realise. Wired How-To Wiki has a great article today on how to apply custom firmware on a Canon camera to super-charge its capabilities. The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit (CHDK) can add new features to your [...]

Keep All Your Microblogs Updated With HelloTxt

Twitter account? Guilty. Jaiku account? Guilty. Never update those two microblogs after getting a Facebook page? Guilty. If you haven’t yet discovered the fun world of microblogging, it’s a great way of keeping tabs on what your friends and online acquaintances are up to without having to make the effort of actually contacting them directly. [...]

8 Gadget Recommendations For When You Go On Holiday

Part of the lure of a being on holiday is the ability to get away from all of your tech distractions. But if you’re reading this site, then you’re probably like me and derive an inordinate amount of enjoyment from having all of your toys and gadgets with you wherever you go. There’s a lot [...]

Your Rights As a Photographer

I saw a pretty ugly crash scene a few days ago in front of my building. A truck had ploughed into the front of a flat across the road, and there was a lot of police and emergency crew milling about. Thankfully no one was hurt, but when my boyfriend asked for my camera to [...]

How I turned the HTC Advantage into a laptop replacement

I’ve been quite the busy little Windows Mobile bee over the last couple of days. Inspired by Aura Mae’s comment that she used the HTC Advantage as something of a computer replacement, I set out to see whether I could achieve the same. Any boy, was I blown away by the results! The Advantage’s 5inch [...]

Finally! Fast, Reliable HTML Email For Blackberry

A huge shortcoming of Blackberry devices is they can’t natively display html email. Instead the Blackberry presents you with a bunch of urls and html code. Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. Recently rumor sites have reported that native html email capabilities will be coming “soon” from RIM. For those who can’t wait , I noticed that Empower [...]

Voice clips on Windows Live Messenger

f you’ve got a Windows Mobile 6 device and haven’t yet tried the voice clip feature, do it – it’s amazing! Instead of struggling with the touchscreen or keypad input, you just activate the voiceclip function, speak into the device’s microphone, and the other party gets an embedded voice clip within the chat window.Mitchell and [...]

Pimp your Zune

I’ll tell anyone who listens – I think the brown Zune is ugly. Looks great in photos – which is what prompted me to go with that colour – but as Alicia Silverstone once said in Clueless: “From far away it’s OK, but up close it’s a big old mess”. Thank heavens Colorware is around [...]

iTunes workaround for non-US users

I’ve always been jealous of US-based iTunes users and their ability to buy TV shows and movies – something that’s still not available in other countries. Don’t get me wrong – I download videos just as much as the next person, but being able to download an entire season of a particular TV show for [...]