Niklas Saers
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$362 and nothing to show for it: inside the SeeAir Kickstarter scam

In March 2023, I backed the SeeAir Tankless Dive System on Kickstarter. Compact, battery-powered underwater breathing gadget. Polished renders, a slick video, spec sheets that looked legit. $362 for the dive unit and a couple accessories. Seemed fair.

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January 26, 2009 • Technology

Three little iPhone apps

Good fun: today I submitted three little iPhone apps for review, hopefully they'll be up in the AppStore within long. The first is Well Tempered, my tuning application, that'll be for sale. It's for tuning early music instruments such as harpsichords and organs and will have many early music temperaments. Do see the product page. Then there are pOSCa and OSCar, free OSC controllers that'll get electronic musicians up from their chairs and performing. Can't wait to have them online and I wonder what people will think of them. I like them very much. :-) Updates will of course be provided as necessary.

January 25, 2009 • Photography

Great Canon 5D MkII Review

This review is a really nice and thorough reveiew

January 19, 2009 • Technology

Supercollider and bubble game

Here is a nice link to Patrick using the bubble game to create OSC signals that will generate sound in SuperCollider. Soon, he can use pOSCa and OSCar as well :-)

January 9, 2009 • General

Finding more Lightroom duplicates

I have a problem: I've put all my photos I've taken the past ten years into Lightroom. To ensure that I didn't miss any, I've put in all from my server, all from my backups etc etc etc. In short: duplicate galore. Now, I've sorted by filename and removed duplicates. I've sorted by capture time and removed duplicates. That made me go from 88k to 74k. But I still have duplicates. They have different times because some were posted in my galleries. They have different sizes because some were thumbnails. They have different names because some were exported and sent via mail. And some are more odd, or perhaps a combination of them all. But in 74k photos, finding duplicates and deciding which one to keep is hard!

November 26, 2008 • iPhone dev

The competition

I'm making OSC controllers for the iPhone, and I just sat down to check out the competition. Some projects, like TouchOSC and OSCemote are for pay. However, they are both out-competed on features and looks by Mrmr by Eric Redlinger. His version is soo much closer to what I have in mind, implements all the features by the two others and is free. That's a mighty good package you have there, Eric.

November 21, 2008 • iPhone dev

iPhone OSC apps, day #1

Jay, revived a project from back in April (Lighting Matrix for Max) from back when the iPhone SDK was NDA and only beta #3 was out. Well, for my first day of serious iPhone dev, I revived it, made it run with the current version, ripped out the Max/MSP part and inserted OSC instead. Good fun :-)

November 15, 2008 • General

Burger King is at it again

For those of you who attended my bachelor party, be sure to read this article from Eksta Bladet

October 8, 2008 • Technology

launchd problems?

Does your console log look much like

September 27, 2008 • 28-75mm

Bergen Etude

Bergen Etude

September 3, 2008 • General

Photos from Ringve 2008

The photos from the Ringve summercourse at Sund, 2008, are online, if you should have them and haven't received my mail with the super-secret password, drop me a line and I'll send it to you