Daniel Brincat . com » Uncategorized http://danielbrincat.com Take my head, shake it up. Now pour it out and this is what you get. Tue, 04 May 2010 23:22:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My Sunday Afternoon http://danielbrincat.com/2010/05/04/my-sunday-afternoon/ http://danielbrincat.com/2010/05/04/my-sunday-afternoon/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 23:20:22 +0000 Daniel http://danielbrincat.com/?p=841 On Sunday I was heading home from my Ice Hockey game at IceTown in Riverside and I was amazed at how beautiful of a day it was. I decided to take a detour from my normal route home and head up Ortega Hwy, West of Lake Eslinore, CA.  I got up to the Lookout Roadhouse and snapped a Panorama of Lake Elsinore as seen below.

Lake Elsinore, CA Panorama from the Lookout Roadhouse

I was on my way down the hill when I decided to pull over and snap a few shots of the street bikers that were storming the hill.  Keep in mind this was my first time shooting street bikes so the results leave a lot to be desired, but I had fun. I can tell, I have a lot to learn and I look forward to doing so.

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Of all the photos, I think I like this one the most.. I dont know why, it just jumps out at me as being the best of the day.

]]> http://danielbrincat.com/2010/05/04/my-sunday-afternoon/feed/ 0 Long Exposure pics at camp in Glamis January 30th, 2010 http://danielbrincat.com/2010/02/02/long-exposure-pics-at-camp-in-glamis-january-30th-2010/ http://danielbrincat.com/2010/02/02/long-exposure-pics-at-camp-in-glamis-january-30th-2010/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:29:36 +0000 Daniel http://danielbrincat.com/?p=838 I was messing around with my camera at camp in Glamis Sand Dunes, setting it up for 30 second exposures… heres what I came up with. January 30th, 2010.

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The problem was this: I take mostly landscape photos with my phone, but the phone would always save the image as a portrait. I hate having to go in and rotate each image, so I wanted to change the default to landscape.

This is how to do it.

  1. Download and copy FdcSoft’s Task Manager to your device.
  2. open TaskMgr
    Screen001
  3. Select RegEdit from the drop down list on the top right
    Screen002
  4. Browse to HKLM/Software/HTC/Camera/Image
    Screen01
  5. Find and open EnableEncodePortrait
    Screen02
  6. For Portrait as default use 1, for landscape as default use 0 (zero).
    Screen03
  7. Hit Done, Close Task Manager, and soft restart your device.

Thats it!

Hope this helps ya!

Disclaimer: For educational purposes only. If you break your stuff by attempting to do this, not my fault…

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Cant wait to go back. Thinkin about going tomorrow afternoon! Should be a good time  :)

]]> http://danielbrincat.com/2009/05/09/photos-from-pala-raceway/feed/ 2 Instructions on How To Replace a Hard Drive in a Macbook A1181 http://danielbrincat.com/2009/04/01/instructions-on-how-to-replace-a-hard-drive-in-a-macbook-a1181/ http://danielbrincat.com/2009/04/01/instructions-on-how-to-replace-a-hard-drive-in-a-macbook-a1181/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:53:59 +0000 Daniel http://danielbrincat.com/?p=796 macbook_13_whiteSo a client of mine called me up asking me if I know how to replace a hard drive in a laptop.  Sure I do, so she brought me the laptop, and handed me a Apple Macbook A1181. Now I’m no mac tech, so I was kinda lost at first when it came to replacing the hard drive. But lucky for me, I found a PDF that outlines exactly how to do it, and holly sweetness its easy.

So i have attached the PDF for you to download so you too can replace your harddrive if you ever need to.

A couple of quick tips to add:

If you are installing a new harddrive, you might need to go into the Disk Utilities and “Erase” the hard drive. Erase it to MacOS Extended Journaled (unless you want to use one of the other options) and name the hard drive “Macintosh HDD.” You probably dont have to name it that, but thats what Apple does, so for consistancy I did the same thing.

disk-utility-02So to get to the Disk Utility, Boot off the OS disk by holding your C key as you power on the unit. Let it get to the welcome screen, and then go to menu on top, where the apple is, file, and so on. Under utilities, you will find the disk utility.

I had to do this to the hard drive before the OS would recognize it as a Destination to install the OS too. Before it wouldn’t detect the hard drive in there, so hopefully if you experience this too, now you know what to do.

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More Photos

Had some spare time and was sitting around so I decided to take my truck out and see what the Palomar Divide was all about, got about 5 miles up and had to turn around. There was too much snow, and I started loosing traction, no good. But all in all it was a great time.

Heres my run:

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Then on the way back into town, i recorded a time laps of the drive…

]]> http://danielbrincat.com/2009/01/03/palomar-divide-road-the-run-i-did-january-3rd-2009/feed/ 2 Glamis Sand Dune Point of Interest (POI) with GPS http://danielbrincat.com/2008/12/03/glamis-sand-dune-point-of-interest-poi-with-gps/ http://danielbrincat.com/2008/12/03/glamis-sand-dune-point-of-interest-poi-with-gps/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:03:38 +0000 Daniel http://danielbrincat.com/?p=757 So I was looking for a good place to gather all the GPS Coordinates for Glamis, the Imperial Sand Dune Recreation area. I found quite a bit of information about it, but no links to Google Earth KML files, so I created this resource area for it.  Click here to download ALL the POI’s I have for Glamis is one Google Earth Pack. (I will keep adding more from time to time, so check back.)

Roadrunner Campground
32°54’40.80″N   115° 7’0.60″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

All-American Canal
32°56’27.96″N   115° 9’24.85″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Gecko Road
32°57’58.20″N   115°10’13.80″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Cahuilla (Glamis) Ranger Station
32°58’25.12″N   115°10’22.32″W
Phone Number: (760)344-3919 - Subject to change with out notice!
Google Earth or Google Maps

Sand Drag Races
32°58’10.70″N   115°10’9.45″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Osborne Overlook
32°59’0.60″N   115° 7’57.60″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Competition Hill
32°59’5.02″N   115° 7’36.77″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Oldsmobile Hill
32°58’3.98″N   115° 6’24.97″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Brawley Slide
32°56’40.48″N   115° 4’50.35″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Lizard Hill
32°55’42.18″N   115° 4’4.76″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

China Wall
32°54’38.41″N   115° 2’14.00″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Glamis Flats
32°59’31.91″N   115° 4’46.78″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Glamis Beach Store
32°59’46.88″N   115° 4’21.05″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Wash Road
32°59’36.49″N   115° 3’53.46″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Boardmanville
32°59’8.28″N   115° 2’4.24″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Download all the Point of Interests (POI’s)

See all these POI’s in Google Maps

]]> http://danielbrincat.com/2008/12/03/glamis-sand-dune-point-of-interest-poi-with-gps/feed/ 0 1and1.com down… that sux… http://danielbrincat.com/2008/09/16/1and1com-down-that-sux/ http://danielbrincat.com/2008/09/16/1and1com-down-that-sux/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:51:35 +0000 Daniel http://danielbrincat.com/?p=750 I went to go transfer a domain of mine to 1&1 and well, they’re down right now.  Damn…

Ehh, it happens…

Apparently their monitoring isn’t that effective!

That’s weird!

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