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Please be sure to read through my updates to the post below, made after being contacted by an Elgato representative. Scroll to the end to see them all.
The latest version of the Turbo.264 software from Elgato (version 1.3 build 294), issued a few days ago, is buggy, and will mess up your converted movies. Not [...]
» Go to this postHow do you handle a corrupted previews catalog in Adobe Lightroom? How do you identify the problem and solve it? I will show you exactly how to do it in this short screencast.
Click on the screenshot below to view or download the video. It’s 720p HD (1280×720 pixels). I messed up (slightly) in the video [...]
I put together a short screencast in order to illustrate the problems that can arise as one adds functionality (customizes) their WordPress install, and WordPress builds that same functionality into its new versions (standardizes).
Click on the screenshot below to view or download the video. It’s 720p HD (1280×720 pixels), so your computer may not be [...]
I’ve been having problems with meta-data entry in Lightroom, particularly the location meta-data. It’s not my computer that’s to blame. The problems exist on both the PC and Mac versions of Lightroom, although they’re more apparent on the Mac version.
When I first mentioned this on Twitter and Friendfeed (see here, here and here) I promised [...]
As I look at these truly scary images of pollution in China, I realize how big a problem pollution really is over there. For most of us, China’s this big country over there in Asia, sort of communist but not really, with plenty of human rights abuses under its belt, but still more decent than [...]
» Go to this postI can’t make this stuff up, seriously. I had another shipment of boxes returned to me by FedEx. I was using pre-printed labels sent to me by Data Robotics themselves. I sent back two Drobos to them a week ago, and the same boxes are now sitting back in my home. One was a replacement [...]
» Go to this postIt looks like the Montgomery Mall Apple Store did not fix our iMac properly the last time we took it in. That’s on top of the 10-day wait it took them to order parts, replace them, and run “extensive” tests…
It’s been working fine for the last month and a half since I got it back. [...]
Remember when “school shooters” used to refer to games of cowboys and indians? You probably won’t, not unless you’re over a certain age. Here, this will remind you:
This is a photo taken by a photographer named Arthur Rothstein, at the FSA camp elementary school in Weslaco, TX, back in 1942. Shorpy, everyone’s favorite 100-year-old photo [...]
» Go to this postA few months ago, I wrote this review of the WD My Book Pro Edition II drive. I hereby rescind anything positive I said about it. I am at the end of my patience with this drive, and Western Digital’s technical support has failed me.My three BIG problems with the drive are as follows:
It crashes [...]
» Go to this postThere are two things I want to talk about today. The first took place right here in the US, and the second happened in Italy. Both happened recently.
We’ve got a conductor who has forgotten the US still means freedom. Apparently, a tourist, possibly from Japan, who knew very little English, was taking photos of the [...]
If you’re a contact of mine on Twitter then you know that I’ve had our iMac in for service since last week — more precisely, since last Monday evening, 10/29/07. I finally got it back last night, on 11/7/07, after 10 days of in-store service with the Apple Geniuses. I thought the repair time was [...]
» Go to this postSo many traffic accidents happen when we don’t keep our proper distance from the cars in front of us. Here’s a simple equation to help you do just that:
Distance (in car lengths) = (Speed/10) - 1
Let me explain it. Say you’re going along at 20 mph — the distance between your car and that in [...]
