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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October 27, 2004 • General

Farenheit 9/11 goes public domain

More or less, anyways. As long as you don't make a profit of it, you can download the movie according to Michael Moore. Not sure if this is his call to make, so it'll be interesting to see possible reactions.

October 27, 2004 • Photoblog

Trouble ahead

Trouble ahead My first attempts at editing, only minor adjustments in green

October 26, 2004 • Photoblog

Avhold

Avhold

October 26, 2004 • General

Apetite growing

After reading on a nice, Brazillian island, my apetite for going out travelling is growing again. Although I'd still prefer backpackers' accommodation. $100 a night that was suggested for this island is a bit stiff in my opinion. Hmm... where to next? :)

October 25, 2004 • Photoblog

Back home

Back home

October 24, 2004 • Photoblog

Steinway

Steinway

October 23, 2004 • Photography

Why I do single shots

Jake at Photoblogs asks if we loose a way of telling a story by using single-shot photoblogs rather than multi-shot. So here's why I do single:

October 23, 2004 • Photoblog

Shadow sign

October 23, 2004 • Technology

iPhoto

Is it just me, or is iPhoto getting seriously old. First off all, it doesn't support RAW yet, so the CR2 files from my Canon EOS 20D are easily getting seriously disorganized. Seconldy, speed... sorry Apple, I've seen iPhoto 4 with 7000 1 mb pictures with the odd 40mb picture in it, it's just not up to par on your iMac 1Ghz/1GB which should be more than good enough to handle this. How hard is it to cache those thumbnails? Waiting minutes every time you move the scrollbar just doesn't work. So I've stuck with iPhoto 2 which is equally slow. Features of iPhoto 4 I'd like of course, and I'm so looking forward to hearing news of what Apple has in plan for the next revision (will that be iPhoto 6, 8 or 16, btw? ;-) ) as iPhoto 2 doesn't work well for more than a gb of photos at a time or so.