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Greetings from Osttirol! My wife and I have been vacationing in Austria for the past [...]
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I recorded a few video clips with my wife’s mobile phone today, and when I tried to import them into iMovie ‘08, I found out that I couldn’t. Apparently, I’m not alone, because if you do a search for this on Google you’ll find there are plenty of other people with the same problem.
Fortunately, there [...]
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… and you get the little exclamation sign within the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, and Time Machine will not back up your Mac any more, then here’s what worked for me, twice so far:
Reboot the Mac.
Before doing anything else, go into the Time Machine drive, locate your Mac’s folder inside the Backups [...]
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You can try bothering with the preferences files, or the codecs, or the color profiles, as the forums tell you to do, or you can do the following:
Go to your home folder > Movies > iMovie Events. Locate the folder with the last clips you imported. Delete the iMovie Cache and iMovie Thumbnails folders.
Restart iMovie. [...]
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If you know how to log in via SSH (Secure Shell Access), then you will be able to upgrade your WordPress site in three minutes or less by using the following lines of code.
I have to admit right away that I’m highly indebted to this pre-existing tutorial from Techtites. But that tutorial is a little [...]
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Stocks Rocket on Fed Rescue Plan http://tinyurl.com/yvhcfb #
The IPv6 experience: Are you experienced yet? http://tinyurl.com/38nddr #
JPEG v. RAW - TWIP http://tinyurl.com/yvv4qq #
Green light for Northrop Grumman Airborne Laser Mine Detection System http://tinyurl.com/2k6kdq #
Researchers develop smell based fire alarm to aid the deaf http://tinyurl.com/2jpnzx #
Funny Animals, Part 10 http://tinyurl.com/32rfrd #
EXIF and Beyond: Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography [...]
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Actual use for the WD My Book Pro: harvest hard drives to use in Drobo. Pretty much the only thing it’s good for. #
Bread and Coffee: 1909 http://tinyurl.com/2n5vga #
Firefox 3 may not be as fast as Safari, but at least it won’t mess up post formatting in WordPress. #
Precocious: 1923 (Check out the mud-covered feet…) [...]
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16 Bit Versus 8 Bit Mode http://tinyurl.com/2snass #
Is Silverlight 2 catching up with Flash? http://tinyurl.com/362kcc #
BlueArc’s Titan is Flexing Petabytes http://tinyurl.com/3a357r #
About a company that really knows how to leave a mess http://tinyurl.com/3cxwhn #
California court threatens homeschoolers http://tinyurl.com/3abrco #
Ziff Davis Media Files For Bankruptcy Protection http://tinyurl.com/28eocr #
Where a Dollar Will Get You http://tinyurl.com/2xmh3b #
Reduce, Reuse, [...]
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Given my recent push to find a feasible solution for my photo library, which resulted in the purchase of a Drobo (three, actually, but that’s beside the point), I’ve gotten to know a bit about hard drive prices. Here are my two cents on the issue.
Keep in mind that this advice is applicable only [...]
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I found myself needing to clean our iMac’s keyboard a few days ago. I remembered watching a video recently that suggested we should simply stick the keyboard in the dishwasher. I wasn’t about to do that. I doubted the circuitry would have worked afterwards, particularly the Bluetooth link between the keyboard and the computer.
The safer [...]
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Bacau is one of the bigger cities in Romania. I had a chance to visit its downtown area this September. I’d never been there before, so I stopped to take a few photos. It was early on a Sunday morning, so there weren’t many people on the streets.
I love the northern Italian architectural elements used [...]
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On a PC
Hold down the Ctrl key and move the scroll wheel on your mouse up or down to decrease or increase font size, respectively. Works in IE and Firefox on PCs.
On a Mac
Use Command and + or Command and - to increase or decrease the font size.
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