Recent Posts Tagged With 'hardware'

• A MacBook Pro and a Dying Battery

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 10:15 in apple, hardware, battery, macbook pro, dead battery, parallel desktops, will not charge

  I've gotten a lot of e-mail lately asking why I haven't been updating my blog. Frankly it's because of two reasons: my business has kept me busier than a one-armed wall-paper hanger and my Macs have just worked. With my adjustment...

• Shopping for your Favorite Technophile just got easier.

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 10:48 in shopping, gadgets, hardware, gift, xmas, popular science, the not-so-daily edition, tech buyer

  If you are over shopping Black Friday's doorbusters and are now concentrating on buying your favorite technophile their gift of choice, Popular Science has published their PopSci Genius Guide to Tech Buying. (download from zinio) In case...

• Review: Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 08:04 in Software, pictures, hardware, workflow, epson, features, scanner, front page, mustek, specs, tabloid, scrap-booking

    Mustek Scan Express A3 1200 Pro USB Large Format Scanner is the most reasonably priced tabloid-size (11.7 x 16.5) scanner on that market at this time. It definitely outperforms expectations, especially at this pricepoint (i paid $167 a...

• Random Musings on Apple’s Migration Assistant

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 06:46 in Software, hardware, workflow, mac osx, mac pro, front page, migration assistant

  Well, this sums up my recent experience with Apple’s Migration Assistant. I just received my new Snow Leopard, 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor Mac Pro. It came with 8 gig of RAM, and I immediately added four more 2 gig Kingston chip...

• Monitor Calibration : Xrite i1Display 2

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 08:14 in Photography, hardware, front page

  The road from getting the color you see on the computer monitor to that you see on an inkjet print is a long and torturous path. What-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) is not what is going to happen with a printer right out of the box, your monitor, ...

• Lighting On A Budget – Pt. 2

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 07:19 in Photography, gadgets, hardware, tutorials, cfl, troubleshooting, front page, compact flourescent lightbulb, studio lights, studio photographer, still photographer, lighting kit

  My 6-light CFL fixture worked well in the studio, but I wanted more light and the option to add a light modifier.  I decided to move up to 3” PVC and install eight lamp sockets around the outside of the pipe. We’re going to ...

• Lighting On A Budget (Pt. 1)

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 08:25 in Photography, gadgets, hardware, cfl, front page, compact flourescent lightbulb, studio lights, lighting kit, budget lighting, green photo studio

  A few months ago, my boss told me that we are expanding my department (me) into the world of video production. I was given complete freedom in choosing the camera, computer, and lighting. Like any good photographer, I spent the entire budget on the...

• Mac Pro: Falling in Love with Apple all over again.

  Posted on Monday June 29th, 2009 at 07:57 in apple, reviews, innovation, hardware, mac, mac pro, front page, loud keyboard, love my mac

  I have a brand spanking new MacPro- -2.66 Quad Core with 600 GB Hd & 6 GB 1066 RAM and a 24 in. Cinema Display with an Wacom Intous3 4 x 6 in. Pen Tablet.  I was weak in the knees, and silly-giddy as I liberated this monster from its cardboa...

• Quick Guide: Connect Your Powerbook to Your TV

  Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 09:23 in TV, hardware, laptop, plasma tv, plasma, vga, powerbook, front page, hdmi, adapters, cables, dvi

   Life can be complicated. This past weekend my air conditioning AND my dvd player died. Within the span of 4 hours. Possible reasons: 1. Power Surge. Maybe. Things haven’t been quite right since Hurricane Ike dropped by for a visit la...

• iLaundered but Still iPod

  Posted on Wednesday December 17th, 2008 at 07:10 in apple, hardware, mac, top, digital lifestyles

  I pulled my workout pants with its myriad array of pockets out of the dryer and felt an all-too familiar lump in one of the tie-pockets. "*&^%" I thought, while pulling out my iPod Nano. There was not any visible damage. The only ...

• Be My Lens, Baby…always

  Posted on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 08:10 in Photography, hardware, image, camera, top, camera lens, aperture, lensbaby, wide angle lens, focal length, lens elements, lens adapter

  Pt. 3 of 3:  Lensbaby Composer, Selective Focus SLR Camera Lens Another improvement over my Lensbaby 2.0 is the lens cap - the 2.0 shipped with a nice, heavy solid metal lens cap that screwed in place… unfortunately, it was kind of sl...

• Be My Lens, Baby…again

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 06:21 in Photography, hardware, image, camera, top, camera lens, aperture, lensbaby, wide angle lens, focal length, lens elements, lens adapter

  Pt. 2 of 3:  Lensbaby Composer, Selective Focus SLR Camera Lens Remember our fun with the Sima? The Lensbaby Composer (and all the Lensbaby line, since they use interchangeable elements) is 50mm in focal length compared with the Sima̵...

• Be My Lens, Baby!

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 06:08 in photo, Photography, focus, hardware, photographer, mac, images, composer, camera, top, slr, camera lens

  Pt. 1 of 3:  Lensbaby Composer, Selective Focus SLR Camera Lens Soon after receiving my first 35mm camera, I found that photography was a little more difficult than it had first looked. Ok, it was a lot more difficult. After mastering the l...