I’m sure a lot of people know about this one already, but I noticed that if you right click on a song in iTunes, it gives you an option that says “Convert selection to …” where “…” is whatever you have your current import encoding settings (in preferences->advanced on a mac) set to. It makes […]
Found out about Music Giants off the Wired feed. It’s another itunes lookalike, but with very high bitrate downloads, at $1.29 a pop. If only iTMS would do the same thing, I’d be all over that. Music Giants is WMA lossless only.. though one might imagine a system where you record the bits as they […]
We managed to fix Ramesh’s dead powerbook on Saturday. Fixing a mac for the first time is an interesting experience for people like me who have been only fixing pc’s all these years. The toolset is very different, including Disk Utility, Firewire disk mode, and Open Firmware. The fix ended up being that he has […]
Just the network meter had stopped working for me when I upgraded to 10.4.3. I found out that deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.ragingmenacs.MenuMeters.plist and then setting everything up again in the preferences pain fixes it all up.
Well, it looks like Apple might do to the photo world what Final Cut did to the video processing world. Aperture looks pretty damn interesting. It gets many things right, that I’ve sort have been hoping for in raw conversion software: use of the full screen.. Aperture has its whole interface designed around this dual […]
With the fullsize keyboard now, I can finall start to use my powerbook in desktop like situations when warranted. This means hooking up my external LCD monitor so that I don’t have to keep looking down at the display. This in turn involves calibrating the display so that hte colors look right. And then there’s […]
After much debating and hesitating, I took the plunge and ordered the white apple bluetooth keyboard. There were many uncertanties surrounding the purchase of this product… many conflicting reports regarding its connection reliability and its overall quality. Well, I’m happy to say that I’ve been using it for about 10 mintues now, and it seems […]
Decided to test all types of RAW converters today, including Bibble Pro, Capture One LE, and Nikon Capture Editor. They all have roughly the same features, so it seems more about speed and usability rather than a pure feature comparison. Anyhow, all of these programs were acting super slow duing testing. Some were better than […]
Apple announced the “Mighty Mouse” today. I worked on a Mighty Mouse a long time ago, for a school project. Coincidence? who knows..
I’ve read it many other place before, but now I see what people mean. The OS X experience for me is significantly improved with 1.5GB of RAM instead of 512mb. I got a 1 gig kingmax stick from newegg for