Morph8 | Our Journey of Change

Clean erase & reset your iPhone 3G

by Ben on November 1, 2009 · 3 comments

Hello! Thanks for dropping by. Its great to see you. This is a personal blog of Benson John, a 29 year old interior designer / photographer / 3D visualizer / music & movie lover living in Melbourne, Australia. This blog is a personal and growing archive of links, rambles, rants, thoughts, ideas, anecdotes and random musings - as well as an array of projects I have worked, or am working, on. It is also a place to gather some of the author's assorted web activities, like photos, links and music. You may want to subscribe to Morph8's RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Meenal and I recently decided to swap phones. And it goes without saying she wanted it wiped completely clean (with the niggly application issues, my saved Wi-Fi settings and my music collection that she absolutely loathes) and baby fresh just like the day we got it. And the whole exercise being as “exciting” as watching paint dry… I thought I’d put it out there for anyone who every decided to go this route.

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Our Home

by Ben on October 28, 2009 · 1 comment

in Events, Family, Lifestyle

Its been quite a while since I’ve posted anything, anywhere online… Anyone who’s been through the ordeal of finding a home in the current scenario would surely vouch for the heartache and frustration of finding a place that fits your needs and your budget. So after 4-6 months of a roller-coaster ride (with many dips, than highs), we finally settled for this 3 bedder, 880 sq. mt. weatherboard “cottage” in a lovely court at Bayswater North. Overlooking the Dandenong ranges, we just immediately fell in love with the light and air that permeated the space. The rear deck and backyard rejuvenate us every time we get home after a dreary day at work. Have a dekko;

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Australian Citizenship

September 24, 2009

“Australian All Let Us Rejoice”
Yup, and we surely did rejoice.
I am now finally an Australian citizen. Its been 4 years and 236 days since leaving the Indian shores and arriving on this ‘golden soil’. The ceremony was quite an occasion, with about 200 people becoming citizens that night. All pledging our oath to the Australian [...]

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Money has no memory. Experience has.

June 22, 2009

Received a lovely email from Vikram recently and I just had to share it.
Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount [...]

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Getting iGetter & Rapidshare to Work

June 6, 2009

Its been almost two years now that I’ve been enjoying my Rapidshare’s premium account and simply love it! Blazing speeds and no more waiting on seeders with torrents… its been sensational. I was previously using Speed Download as my dedicated download manager. All was well until I wanted to setup scheduled downloads… What a nightmare?! [...]

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Camry Upgrade

May 22, 2009

After 2 years of rigorous (ab)use, my gutsy old Camry has given up on me. It all started with a standard mid-week morning dash to work. The cars’ engine just wouldn’t turn. I ended up calling RACV and was in luck, with a bloke at my gate literally in 5 minutes. He had a look [...]

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Pentagram – It’s OK, It’s All Good

April 29, 2009

I’m loving the new (not quite so new) Pentagram single, Voice. The video for this song coincided with the India wide protests that occurred due to the extension of the reservation quota by the Indian universities. Their video features about 30 of the bands’ friends and fans, who sing the chorus. Have a dekko.

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Style your Blog for Mobile Devices

April 26, 2009

I came across the WPtouch plugin while browsing through Alan Levine’s blog. This is primarily a Wordpress theme that formats your blog to make it slick and readable on mobile devices. Developed by BraveNewCode that makes an awesome array of open source projects. In their own words;
More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire [...]

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Picto-Type

April 21, 2009

Web crawling tonight I came across a neat site called “Spell with Flickr“, which does exactly what it implies. It uses an assortment of images on Flickr that have text in them (graffiti, signage etc) to generate a word or phrase of your choice. You can click on any text that you don’t like to [...]

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Kitchen – New Zealand

April 14, 2009

After quite a long hiatus, I was recently asked by my brother to develop some pilot 3D visuals for a kitchen design job. This was more to exhibit the strengths of visuals with regards to time, level of detail and (most importantly) its ability to sell their kitchens. I started, as usual, with importing the [...]

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Google Suggestions

February 5, 2009

I’m constantly amazed at Google Suggest‘ drop-down menu of “popular” web searches. It really isn’t all that great, but the results are as surprising as a smack on your face. Here is what I’m talking about… The first isn’t much of a surprise, but the second sure is…

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Metadata Fixer – TuneUp or Curator

January 23, 2009

Ever since I got my MacBook Pro, I have moved all my music to iTunes. All 50 GB of it. Before the shift , my sorting procedure, as all Windows users, would be organizing my music into appropriate folders. So I had about a few hundred folders called “AC~DC, DMB, A’Smith, Assorted” and so on [...]