April 2007

InDesign CS3 Gotcha

Gotcha! (Gotcher $1,000 too, suckers!)

Posted on April 30, 2007 3:25 PM | link to this entry

Who Called?

www.whocalled.us has information on unlisted caller ID numbers, lookups, and a comments section to share information.

Posted on April 26, 2007 12:19 AM | link to this entry

Keyboard and Mouse Sharing

Lifehacker ran a fantastic tip today on sharing a keyboard and mouse among multiple computers. Synergy is cross-platform, open source software, and it took about five minutes to set up on my two Macs here, allowing me to FINALLY remove a full-size keyboard from my crowded desk. I'm now considering installing it on the Thinkpad to see if I can do away with the second mouse. (OS X download here.)

Posted on April 25, 2007 10:47 AM | link to this entry

LEGO Millenium Falcon

The $500 LEGO Millenium Falcon. As a Star Wars geek, LEGO geek, and 36 year old American male, I don't know whether to charge this to my credit card IMMEDIATELY or run screaming from the computer. (I don't want to be that guy with two kids, a mortgage, and my Star Wars figures on display.) If I was 13 again, however, I'd start the daily Christmas ~~pestering~~ reminders right now.

Posted on April 19, 2007 1:31 PM | link to this entry

A look back at the NC2000

Here's an article looking back at the first generation of professional digital cameras aimed at photojournalists. It's amazing to think of how different the playing field would be today if Kodak had made an effort to go digital sooner. $17,950 for 1.3 Megapixels...damn.

Posted on April 18, 2007 6:14 PM | link to this entry

101 Essential Freelancing Resources

101 Essential Freelancing Resources. Some of these are so-so, some are stupid, and some are very smart.

Posted on April 16, 2007 10:56 AM | link to this entry

Life-Size Car model

A car club got together and made a life-size model out of a 1940 Ford, down to the little jars of paint, the box, and an X-acto knife. Genius. (via)

Posted on April 13, 2007 8:48 AM | link to this entry

DasBoot

Make a bootable removable drive (iPod, Flash drive, etc.) out of any Mac diagnostic CD with DasBoot. (via)

Posted on April 10, 2007 9:25 PM | link to this entry

17" MacBook Pro battery woes

Wow, Engadget has a whole lot of links about problems with 17" MacBook Pro batteries warping, expanding, and generally going kaput. Knowing just how hot this thing gets, I can't say I'm shocked, but...

Posted on April 9, 2007 10:09 AM | link to this entry

Remote Desktop Clients for the Mac

I've recently found myself needing to use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client for a project I'm working on, and because the ThinkPad seems to hate me, I set it up in the Parallels WinXP install running on my MacBook Pro. Lifehacker wrote about two Mac RDC clients today, CORD and the Microsoft client itself. (Apparently the MS client is still PPC which means it runs slowly under emulation.) Caveat Emptor.

Posted on April 7, 2007 11:16 PM | link to this entry

Build a location photography laptop case

Build a location photography laptop case. I could have used this in Bimini, but I was too scared to carry my main production laptop on a 20' boat bobbing in the Atlantic Ocean. (via)

Posted on April 6, 2007 10:11 AM | link to this entry

Mac Backup Solutions

Complete Mac Backups free. I've been looking at rsync for a while, and having a clone of my current system is a fantastic idea. Time for another fat hard drive?