Magic Lantern Firmware
This is a very cool development for the Canon 5D Mark II:
Magic Lantern is an open platform for developing enhancements to the amazing Canon 5D Mark II full frame digital SLR [...] But, the software in video mode has limitations, even after the recent 1.1.0 upgrade from Canon that fixed the most glaring manual exposure “bug”.
That’s where Magic Lantern comes in — it turns your 5D Mark II into a 5D Mark Free. We’ve written extensions and widgets that fix many of the annoyances in working with the 5D Mark II on a film or video set. Our first set of fixes are targeted at the audio limitations of the camera, but there are some video enhancements included, too:
- On-screen audio meters
- Disabled AGC
- Manual gain control
- Zebra stripes (video peaking)
- Crop marks for 16:9, 2.35:1 and 4:3
See Magic Lantern Firmware Wiki and Magic Lantern firmware Introduction on Vimeo.
The Twitpocalypse
So it would appear that Twitter has been the victim of a Y2K like scenario.
The unique identifier assigned to each tweet has exceeded 2,147,483,647. The result is that some Twitter related apps will begin seeing negative numbers. The problem is the use of a 32-bit signed integer for the status ID.
It would appear that the Twitter engineering team accelerated the process in order to deal with the issue during the day, instead of at 3am.
If your individual app is affected, a patch will likely be released soon. I use Twitteriffic on my iPod Touch and overflow broke the app.