From the category archives:
In this article, I talk about the way I use Lightroom’s folders panel to organize my photos on disk. I talk about how I made the choices I’ve made, and some of the alternatives I considered and why I rejected them.
In addition to my work on the Lightroom development team, I also like to teach [...]
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So there’s a new iPhone in the house. Not surprising, given that I’m somewhat of an Apple fanboy and gadget freak in general. What is surprising is that it’s not mine; it’s Tara’s. Tara is anything but a gadget freak. She has little patience for the often obtuse interfaces that most electronic gadgets offer. So [...]
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I’ve been a bit quiet here on this blog for the last few weeks, so here’s a bit of a retrospective on what’s been happening lately…
I was barely home a week from Alaska when I shipped off again, this time to California for a few days of work on Lightroom. Over the Labor Day weekend, [...]
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I’ve been working with computers for over thirty years now, and one thing I’ve learned from painful experience is never, ever trust your hard drive. It will let you down; the only question is when.
Whenever I create new data on a computer from e-mail to new photographs to web content, I always think about how [...]
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Update from “Using a Treo 700p with a Mac: It’s Rough.”
It’s still not totally wonderful, but I have a new Treo 700p (now on Verizon instead of Sprint) and it’s mostly working now.
Things that have helped:
Being on Verizon instead of Sprint. I still drop connections occasionally, but it’s far less frequent than when I was [...]
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Just a quick note: I’ve discovered that the Cisco 3000 VPN software (version 4.9.00.0050) will not work on an Intel-based Mac when connected to the Internet via a Bluetooth-enabled phone. When you click on the “Connect” button, it stalls in the “connecting to server…” stage and never presents the password dialog.
I’ve tried this on both [...]
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No blog on technology would be complete without commentary on the technology of blogging itself. With this post, I’m going to try out a new feature category called “It Just Works.” This category is reserved for technology products that deliver true joy from the word “go.”
This blog is powered by WordPress 2.0.3 and it has [...]
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Update: See “Persistence Pays Off: Treo and Mac Get Along — Mostly.”
Talk about life on the bleeding edge. I recently got a new MacBook Pro laptop for work, which kind of triggered a chain reaction of other purchases.
I have a two-year old Samsung Palm phone hosted by Sprint , which by itself was working just [...]
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