When selling or buying a used camera, one important piece of information you want to know is how many shutter actuation’s are on the camera. The Canon 40D is rated for 100,000 actuation’s, which means buying a camera with 90,000 would be a bad idea unless it’s really cheap. If you want to check your [...]
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Remote Disk on Macbook
April 6th, 2010
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The Macbook Air comes with a feature to allow you to use another computers DVD drive to install software, but for some reason it only works on Macbook Air. To enable this feature on other Mac computers, the following commands can be entered in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser EnableODiskBrowsing -bool true defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser ODSSupported [...]
Creating ISO’s on Mac
March 30th, 2010
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How to create an ISO image from a CD on a Mac: Insert the CD, and open Terminal Find the mount point #~> mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse) map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse) /dev/disk1s0 on /Volumes/CDImage (cd9660, [...]
Windows XP Printing on Airport Extreme
October 30th, 2008
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After spending time trying to avoid installing anything on Windows XP to print to an Airport Extreme shared printer, I broke down and installed Bonjour for Windows 1.0.5. It was a small download, and it appears to only install a helper application which setup the TCP/IP printer port(s) for your printer(s). It immediately found the [...]
Drobo Storage Robot
February 11th, 2008
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Data Robotics has come out with a nifty external storage solution which I only just heard about. If you are looking for expandable external storage without the hassles of drive management then the Drobo would be an excellent solution for you. As they say on their website: Avoid the hassles associated with managing multiple external [...]
Fun Friday: Galder
February 8th, 2008
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The rules for this game are simple, the scoring easy to figure out but the real challenge is to be able to plan ahead. Check this out for a break from work for an hour or a day. It took me three games to figure out that you need to remove as many gems at [...]
News without a Television
February 6th, 2008
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I don’t own a television and I don’t have a newspaper subscription. These two things amaze some people and they usually ask the same question: How do you get your news? Well, I have two simple ways in which I get my news, most of which is more relevant to me than anything on television [...]
Typical Mac User
February 4th, 2008
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Typical mac user is podcast run by Victor Cajiao who switched to the Mac platform a couple of years ago and has been podcasting his experience learning the Mac. The show covers a wide range of topics as he will talk about what interests him that week. Not ever week may be of interest to [...]
Fun Friday: Zuma
February 1st, 2008
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Zuma is a simple but very addictive game. I recently found a copy for apple and only downloaded the demo otherwise I would have been at it for hours. If you don’t want hours of your life sucked away firing coloured balls from a frogs mouth, I would suggest staying far away. You can also [...]
Repeating Motif Generating Software
January 15th, 2008
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I stumbled upon this software the other day and it’s a simple yet sophisticated application which allows you to design repeating motif patterns for use as website background or desktop images. I found the easiest way to use this software was to click the randomize button and once you have found a pattern you like, [...]
