Nuclear reset for .Mac syncing | 43 Folders

Links to an article about .mac syncing problems and what to do. here I thought it was just me. Seems everyone gets to a point where the scorched earth policy is the solution:

In an ideal world, you should have so much redundant reliability that you can reset from any recently updated machine — I mean, isn’t that the point of syncing? But, as you quickly learn, that’s simply not feasible when things suddenly go kerplooey on multiple Macs over a short interval. But, by always knowing where to restart your electronic Marshall Plan — which box is the true “original” in the .Mac chicken-waving ritual — you’ll have quicker recoveries and a less frustrating experience in general.

Nuclear reset for .Mac syncing | 43 Folders

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The most dramatic interview of Macworld

Like reality TV, this one. Life, death, possible rebirth, the highs, the lows, all the emotions of data loss and recovery. This isn't fake, it was REAL! Like COPS meets the geeks or something

It's been 20 years!

The Strip

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Cool site full of weird images: English Russia

English Russia just because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth surface

English Russia » Abandoned Russian Village

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Baby Flyer

Its that time of year again!

Peekaboo!

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Stepn' Out

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Liam's 3rd birthday party

Liam's 3rd birthday party
Originally uploaded by ianmcc

the whole party can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianmcc/sets/72157603981664776/

Liam finds a heart shaped Smartie!

Liam finds a heart shaped Smartie!
Originally uploaded by ianmcc

actually the second one but the first one was pink. ...

When you eat you Smarties do you eat the red ones last, do you suck them very slowly or crunch'em very fast, eat the candy coated chocolate, but tell me when i asked, when you eat your smarties do you eat the red ones last?

Liam's 3rd Birthday

Liam's 3rd Birthday
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pagliro.ca meledy!

Angela Browne reminded me of this guy's tunes... check this medley out!

http://www.pagliaro.ca/sounds/english%20medley.mp3

Mad Men: The Carousel

From the show called Mad Men, I have never seen it. But this clip is really well done. Imagine when this was cutting edge tech, and what they didn't have.

I must say I want to see this show! :-)

SX-70

SX-70
Check out the retro-photo-ness!

Dunno why someone threw a old Cramps song on this Polaroid commercial. Kinda fitting since they've given up film this week.

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Hard lessons

Part of the purpose of this blog is, at times, is that I want everyone to learn from my mistakes and screw ups. Here's a couple I did in ONE day. Tuesday felt like Monday!

New laptop screen.
The one I bought off Ebay arrived, I waited till I was in the right frame of mind, cleared the decks, rolled up the sleeves, put on the soft music and dove it. Followed the online step by steps, everything goes swimmingly.  Until I have to plug thew new screen in. The wire provided is about 1.5 inches TOO short. At first I thought maybe I need to re-run it different, or something but nope it's too short! Brad my friend with a soldering gun is gonna extend it, but I now I am skeptical if it will work. It might have been a $200 lesson in "don't do this out of your league" or " If it's too cheap on Ebay there IS a reason" Of couse I blasted an email off to the seller, and I can apply for a RMA to return it to San fran on my dime, wait another 10 days for the new one etc etc.. BLAH BLAH!... Let's hope the soldering works

The other eye opening lesson was in hard drive formatting. Having a 40 gig project to deliver I decide to load up a WD passport 160 HD. I knew it was going into a WIN only environment, and having problems with this before, I format the disc FAT32. Seems some windows OS"s have a 30bg limit on partitions, Mac's can't formate NTFS easily and Win machines can't read HTS, the mac format. So the client phones as says my disc doesn't work at all! Seems that when it comes to bigger hard drives, formating for compatibility on both platforms is REALLY difficult. This is going to be an issue as files sizes get larger, HD's more plentiful and Mac's living in a mix platform environment. I don't even know if I sloved this problem today, after hours of googling, a reformat and crossing my fingers

I'll update what happens next on both of these fun fun tech problems! remember when the biggest problem was crimping your 120 film when rolling in on stainless reels? Those were the days

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JAlbum

JAlbum - the free web photo album software and photo gallery software
To be honest i don't use this software.
But i love the fact that it's free and the huge community behind it create some amazing skins for it.
try it out, very easy to use and fun!

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37signals Product Blog: Launch: Backpack Multiuser (and single-user)

I'm still using Backpack and loving it. But on larger projects with maybe 3 people involved it would be nice to have one place where we could all post messages schedules etc. Basecamp was too large and complex a program for what I needed. The Multiuser Basecamp accounts might be the solution for a small design firm or someone with consistent projects with the same people. Looks as thought out as everything 37 signals has done. I hope it doesn't complicate things. They and generally anti-feature bloat so I can't see it being too crazy. Free trial for you to try, giver!

37signals Product Blog: Launch: Backpack Multiuser (and single-user)

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This is me calling my...

This is me calling my blog to show Tammy how Jott works. listen

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Uptown Magazine Online - Best of Winnipeg

BEST OF WINNIPEG 2008 Uptown's Readers' Choice Awards
Cast Your vote for the Best of Winnipeg 2008 and win cool prizes!Here is your chance to choose the Best of Winnipeg and win prizes (TBA) at the same time. The Best of Winnipeg recognizes your choices for the people, restaurants, stores and places that make Winnipeg a great place to live.

Uptown Magazine Online - Best of Winnipeg


Entry #81 is for best local photographer. I'd really love all the readers of this blog to vote for me. :-)

Thanks for your support!

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Liam Looks

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What I mean is you can...

What I mean is you can phone a local number and it will show up on your blog. How cool is that? And it works really well translating the audio to text. listen

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Hey, Jott works with...

Hey,
Jott works with Blogger. You should try it. listen

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Aperture 2 immediate feedback.

Follow this link for a great overview of the features. Looks pretty good. I installed the trial version on my laptop and it runs so much faster. Priced now at $199 it's a great alternative to Lightroom!

Aperture 2 Overview and new features Part 1 of 2

Aperture 2 Overview and new features Part 1 of 2 - Aperture Users Professional Network

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Photobooth.net | Photobooth Community and Photo Booth Blog

Photobooth.net is the most comprehensive photobooth resource on the internet.
We welcome your comments and appreciate your contributions.
Photobooth.net | Photobooth Community and Photo Booth Blog

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HDR is SOOO last year... All the kids are using Enfuse!

Enfuse is a free script that is command based, that does a much better job for accurate blends. Brackletter is a front end for Enfuse. You won't get those weird HDR effects, it's made for those who want just a clean blend of exposures.

Pangea Software Panoramic Photography : Bracketeer front-end GUI for Enfuse

What it is

Bracketeer is a front-end GUI for Enfuse. Enfuse is a command-line freeware utility which uses multiple exposures of a scene (bracketed exposures) and merges them together to form a uniformly lit scene. It is similar to tonemapping with an HDR image except that no HDR image is ever created, and there is no ghosting. It works with any kind of bracketed image set, not just panoramic equirectangular images. The results are almost always much better than anything that can be achieved with Photoshop's HDR ToneMapping:

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Aperture ver2!!

Apple - Aperture - 100+ New Features
FINALLY! After months and months of waiting, countless whining by every D300 and D3 owner on every forum, the wait is over!
Hit the link for the list of all the refinements and upgrades. TETHERED SHOOTING is in there! Can't wait to try it out.

I bought the upgrade, but it's a boxed version only so deliver is set for around Feb 22nd!

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New Age, BANG, Old Age // Current

Great video wortha watch!
New Age, BANG, Old Age // Current

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A glimmer of hope for the Grammys

A jazzy album of reinterpretations of obscure Joni Mitchell songs wins Album of the Year? There is hope for the Grammy yet! I LOVE that last line! The reporter who asked it has probably never heard Bitches Brew!

The melding of eras was the theme of the 50th anniversary Grammy Awards on Sunday, but it will be remembered as the night Amy Winehouse was crowned as the new queen of pop present.And the night a 67-year-old jazzman walked off with album of the year.

Herbie Hancock pulled off one of the biggest Grammy upsets in memory when "River: The Joni Letters," his reimagining of Joni Mitchell songs from 20-40 years ago, took the night's biggest prize. The album spent two weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 118.

It was only the second jazz set to win album of the year, following the Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto collaboration "Getz/Gilberto" in 1965.

"What a beautiful day this is in Los Angeles," Hancock said in accepting the award at Staples Center. He acknowledged the rarity of a jazz record winning, citing such legends as Miles Davis and John Coltrane having been overlooked. "I'd like to thank the academy for breaking the mold today," he said.

Later backstage, Hancock was asked about whether he thought his album was the conservative choice for the award. He looked genuinely stunned. "I think I play music that's further out than any of these musicians ever heard," he said.

Grammys say go, go, go

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Framed

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Photographer finds Flickr pics sold on iStockphoto

This is only the beginning, We'll see more and more of these kind of stories in the year to come.

Photographer finds Flickr pics sold on iStockphotoPosted by Stephen Shankland
.An Icelandic photographer has for a second time encountered the ugly side of Internet photo sharing, finding photos she published at Yahoo's Flickr site being sold by somebody else through the iStockphoto Web site.

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, a professional photographer, found a picture she took of three frolicking horses on iStockphoto, a "microstock" site that licenses images for relatively low prices."I mean for crying out loud, out of 31 images this particular user has on his 'portfolio,' 25 of them are mine, and at least 3 are of me," she said in the caption for a screenshot of the iStockphoto page.

Photographer finds Flickr pics sold on iStockphoto | Underexposed - CNET News.com

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Lens Baby

lensbaby TTV
Originally uploaded by ianmcc

For the fans of white noise...

Introducing ChatterBlocker, the software that reduces distraction from nearby conversations so you can stay focused anywhere.ChatterBlocker does not use noise cancellation; instead, it blurs recognizable speech with a soothing blend of nature sounds, music and background chatter. Intelligible speech is often the most distracting sound in the workplace.

ChatterBlocker lowers the intelligibility and reduces the distraction.ChatterBlocker also offers mindfulness meditation tracks intended to increase concentration, reduce distractibility and minimize the stress response to cubicle and office noise.

Use ChatterBlocker to tune out disruptions and increase concentration at the office, airports, cafes, or anywhere.

ChatterBlocker blocks office and cubicle noise so you can concentrate

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DIN 1451, look at the top for an example

DIN 1451 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Helvetica doc got me thinking about the history of the font family used in my identity, which by the way was designed by Kevin Braun at Element B Design

the DIN 1451 is commonly used in traffic signs in Germany.

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Albet Watson on what it takes...

One of my faves talking about what it takes to get where he is.

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Better Than Free.

Chase Jarvis posted this one for the photogs. A great article outlining strategies for anyone faced with the Internet effecting their business. Creative professionals especially take note of this one!

here's a snippet:

This super-distribution system has become the foundation of our economy and wealth. The instant reduplication of data, ideas, and media underpins all the major economic sectors in our economy, particularly those involved with exports -- that is, those industries where the US has a competitive advantage. Our wealth sits upon a very large device that copies promiscuously and constantly.

Yet the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on selling precious copies, so the free flow of free copies tends to undermine the established order. If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?

I have an answer. The simplest way I can put it is thus:
When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.

When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.

When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.

Well, what can't be copied?...

Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

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Car tapes up for grabs!

Compact Cassette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hit the link for a reminder of what a Cassette is! Hey some kids don't know...

Before Cd players in cars, I would buy music and promptly dump them on cassette for the car.
I've discovered another box of these tapes and rather than throw them in the dumpster, I'll offer them up to who ever wants'em.
Eclectic is the only word to describe the selection. Email me if you're interested.

Oh by the way, they used to tell us "home taping is killing music." If they only knew what was coming!..
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff

Amazon.com: Coltrane: The Story of a Sound: Books: Ben Ratliff

This month's book choice. The image I am linking to ironically has Amazon's "search inside" tag on it.  Coltrane did just that, for the elusive sound. I almost wasn't going to read this book about jazz musician John Coltrane because I thought I had read a pretty definitive version called Ascension. I am glad I didn't stop there. Ratliff the jazz critic for the New York Times, has a wonderful style of writing, enabling you to hear the music in his words without the music. He structured the book in two halves, the first half a straight head accounting of his Coltrane's career with some analysis of the music. The second half discussed the impact of his music on the rest of the jazz community and beyond, the mythical status he and his music has after his death.

While the first half gets quite deep into the musical theory, to a non-musician like myself, it was fascinating. If you can't make sense of bebop or free jazz, realize there some pretty deep theories seated inside that noise, and Ratliff does a great job of enlightening some of them. My eye glaze over when discussed the different scales used and the chord progressions, but he writes about it in a way that you are still intrigued.

The documentary Helvetica I saw last night, reminds me my fascination's for vernaculars used to describe things you can't really describe. With Jazz music, like typography, you need to almost use a different language to communicate with. Ratliff is deft with that language allowing a non musician like myself a peak into Coltrane's elusive sound.

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GDC AGM

The GDC AGM was held at the Park Theatre.
Sadly I did NOT win the PS3! :-(
After the formalities, we were able to watch the doc "Helvetica". Which was far more entertaining that you'd think it would be. It was amazing to watch some designers lapse into crazed metaphors, talking about type, while others, the people who hate the font, were hilarious in their disgust! I wouldn't rush out to buy the movie, but when it's on the Doc Channel, it will be worth a watch!

DSC_7025.JPG on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Eye Fi Card

I have already hi lighted this new device but here's the video on it anyway. Works pretty good, in my D40.

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Flickr: Noise and Dust Through The Viewfinder

Flickr: Noise and Dust Through The Viewfinder

The technology has gotten so good, now there's a Flickr group that specializes in providing the grunge you need!

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Liam in action Feb 08

Jumping, shooting with his camera( and chimping) and then running with his garbage truck

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bad dog

bad dog
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Their back!

BluDomain - if something's too good to be true, it probably is.

BluDomain - Fully editable flash websites for the creative professional

Well I learned my lesson, if its too good to be true it probably is.
I purchased a $200 web template from these guys back on January 9th. I decided to host it myself rather than pay them to host.
 Days went by and then finally after I asked, they sent an email you fill out your account info. I filled it out and snet it right back that day.
More days went by. I ask again whats going on? I get a reply with my email "waiting for this"
Waiting for what? I don't understand, I say...
Days go by...
I ask again, waiting for what?
I get a reply: you need to fill out email info, we're waiting for you to do this and they quote the proper information I had already provided.
I thought I did, did you notice it? You've had it for 3 weeks!!
days go by,...
and still nothing,...

so there it is,... almost a month has gone by, and all I have to show for it is two wimpy one line email replies to me begging to know what is going on!
All the while their blog continues to spout off on how great they are and how busy they are and how wonderful life is.

I contrast this to my LiveBooks Experience:
2 days, immediate replies, talking with LIVE people, seamless installation, and after a year and a half, the site has never stopped working!
Worth every penny.

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UPDATE: it's now up, minutes after I post this! Coincidence?!

Just like MY monday!

The Strip

If I had a dime everytime I heard this,... I'd wouldn't have to shoot anything!

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Where is the OLPC?

I've had a few people ask where my OLPC is? I did receive it, while I was in Macworld. I have booted it up a couple times, very fun!
There are at least 4 OLPC owners in Winnipeg and there is talk of a meetup. I think I will wait till I "mesh" with other users to weigh in on the whole experience.

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Macworld 08: ON2 Flix

An inexpensive video encoder for Flash. Kinda neat.

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Delkin Devices - Imagerouter

How cool is this? After a full day of shooting the card swap is the last thing you wanna do...


Delkin ImageRouter Shipping April 2008!

Whether you come back from a shoot with four or fourteen CompactFlash cards, you will spend a significant amount of time transferring your images to a computer. Constantly having to load and unload cards from a reader means you are tied to your desk during the whole process. ImageRouter frees you from your desk and greatly improves workflow efficiency by doing this work for you. With ImageRouter, you now can spend more time taking photographs, not managing files.

Four Slots for CompactFlash Cards * Designed with the professional in mind, the UDMA enabled ImageRouter can concurrently transfer data from up to four CompactFlash cards*. Instead of downloading cards one at a time with a single slot reader, all you have to do is load your cards into ImageRouter, start the transfer, and walk away. You don't have to return until you're ready to retouch or print your photographs.

Delkin Devices - Imagerouter

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Frozen Grand Central

A crazy improv stunt where 207 people freeze in place, while during everyday stuff, in the middle of Grand Central Station. A great video, documenting the crowds reaction!

Open source firmware for Linksys Routers

From Lifehacker.
For those of you fortunate enough to have the right ver of Linksys Router (I don't) or if you're looking to buy a new one, take a look at this. Open source firmware that does a far better job of things that Linksys' version (shudder). Easier to install than you think!

A year-and-a-half ago, we showed you how to turn your $60 router into a highly configurable $600 router with DD-WRT, a free, open source firmware. Since then there's been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we're taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. Tomato does almost everything DD-WRT does—from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation—in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs. Sound good? Let's get started.

Feature: Turn Your $60 Router into a User-Friendly Super-Router with Tomato

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