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  • MacBook Air Disk problems and how to Remote Bookt

    Well, when my machine was freezing, I was used to Windows so my first thought was, uh oh, the hard disk is crashing. Ran Disk Utility and it asked me to Repair the disk with the installation Mac OS X. First note, you should always have this DVD with you whereever you go (I didn’t),…

  • MacBook Air Core Shutdowns and Freezes

    Well, maybe I’m hard on hardware, but have four problems with my MacBook Air right now in order of problems: h2. “Intermittent Freezing”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1415343&tstart=0 (aka “Core Shutdown”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1445521&tstart=1) Originally I thought that this was because my hard disk has corruption problems. ClamAV would run and then system would lock, so then I disabled this, but still had…

  • Airport Firmware 7.3.2 Problems

    Apple just release “7.3.2”:http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timecapsuleandairportbasestation80211nfirmware732.html which is an update for the firmware and the airport utility running on Macs and Windows. Not clear what it has besides bug fixes. As with most Airport Extreme and Time Capsule fixes, it isn’t seemless. “Pokrface”:http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/726007513931 has problems with it hanging the access points. Going back to 7.3.1 fixed that…

  • Spider Bites

    Hope you never get one, but “Termite.com”:http://www.termite.com/spider-identification.html has a good set of descriptions. Brown recluse Black Widow Spider. Headache and nausea Hobo Spiders. Takes 24 hours to become a blister and symptoms are fatigue and there will be immediate redness and severe headache. Funnel Web Grass

  • Nikon D700

    “Nikon”:http://dcviews.com/press/Nikon-D700.htm just introduced a full frame camera that is 12MP and will really put heavy pressure on the Canon 5D. Just like the Nikon 300D really trounces the Canon EOS-40D by being fast, so the D700 is going to put pressure on Canon. Oh why did I go with Canon lenses???

  • Canon XT 350D Parameter settings and correct ISO settings

    I’ve had this camera for two years now and am still finding a new thing or two. One thing to watch out for is the Parameter settings. These are like Picture Styles in the newer Canon XTi (400D) and XSi (450D) Canon Digital Rebel XT review EOS-350D There are 2 pre-set parameter sets with Parameter…

  • MacBook Air SuperDrive jammed and will not eject so shake it!

    Hat tip to “TUAW”:http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/24/mod-use-your-macbook-air-superdrive-on-any-machine/ apparently, “Tnkgrl”:http://tnkgrl.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/macbook-air-superdrive-for-all/ has figured out how to open up a Superdrive, replace a part and thus make it universally compatible with all computers. Great geekout. OTOH, why go to all the trouble :-)? The “photos”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnkgrl/sets/72157605790040071/ are really useful so you can disassemble it. The short version is the black bottom comes…

  • Windows Boot Drive Crash

    Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”. “Microsoft”:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321626 has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is…

  • I’m such an idiot

    I jammed a superdrive back in April. Forgot about not leaving a DVD in there and now Microsoft Office 2008 is stuck in there and it won’t come out. I can actually hear the drive spinup and try to access and then stop. Once I even got the CD icon for a second. Looks to…

  • No Compact Camera for a prosumer? GX200, DP1, G9, SD950 compared

    Well, been looking for a high end compact camera. When I was on film, used a Yashica which was compact, but had a great fixed focus lense and excellent quality. There really isn’t a good answer yet for digital. What do you need for a prosumer that is different from a point-and-shoot. Well, the ideal…