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!

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 you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother’s life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won’t remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.

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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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A Musical Prank

December 16, 2008

“A student stands up in the middle of class and starts brilliantly singing a broadway style musical. Even the Professor (James Valentini) was laughing at this!”
Absolutely sensational! Brightened up my day.

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Remote Control your Man/Woman

December 15, 2008

You wish! But these fun gadgets are a hoot anyway… with quirky quips like; “Time to listen!”, “What about my needs?”, and “Whoa, ever hear of foreplay?” from the Control your Man gizmo. While the Control Your Woman speaks of things like “Feed me!”, “Hand over the credit cards”, and “Yeah baby, do that again”. [...]

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Wireless Time Machine Backups

December 15, 2008

I recently ran out of space on my 500 GB Western Digital My Book. I had been optimizing the data there and realized I could not trim down the data any more and HAD to get additional storage. I picked up a 1 TB Western Digital Elements device from DickSmiths, Chadstone for about A$199. After [...]

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Wordpress Upgrade 2.7

December 11, 2008

Anyone with a wordpress blog, just has to to get Keith Dsouza’s Automatic Upgrate plugin. After a few ghastly upgrades before, it seems divine being able to do this, at work, with just a couple of clicks. And hello ‘Coltrane‘…

First impressions. Pretty slick! Beautiful, minimalist admin interface. Love it…
PS: The quickpress feature is a very [...]

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