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Remote OSX server install via Apple Remote Desktop or VNC….
Came across this issue a few weeks ago and never got around to posting it until today. Yes, you can avoid using the Server Assistant program and go straight to ARD to install your server. For this to work your server and remote desktop machines need to be on the same subnet. You boot the…
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UNetbootin takes care of all your USB Linux installtion blues….
I’d covered Fedora’s Live USB creator a while back. But for those of you wanting to install other flavours of linux on a USB stick (or a HD even), the process was lengthy and cumbersome. That was before UNetbootin, the Universal Netboot Installer. You see UNetbootin can be run from Linux or Windows and will enable you…
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Toronto Photographers Meetup Group goes to the EX
Last week on Wednesday (Aug 20, 2008) TPMG members went to visit the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE/The EX). Here are some of the pictures from the event, more on flickr.
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Activate expanded Save and Print menu’s in OSX
Here are two commands to activate the expanded Print and Save menu’s under OSX by default. You need to type these in a terminal window. 1) For expanded Print menudefaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool TRUELogoff and back in again to activate. Reissue the command replacing TRUE with FALSE to turn expanded functionality off. 2) For…
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Quick command line trick to make your Leopard stacks look nice….
Here is a quick command to make Leopard’s stacks behave nicer when you move your mouse across the icons. You can type these two commands in terminal to activate the feature:defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YESkillall Dockor alternatively if you don’t like the look, type the following in terminal to reset it back:defaults write com.apple.dock…
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DivXLand Media Subtitler will subtitle your movies in seconds…..
I’ve always had problems with this and now really appreciate the value of DMS (DivXLand Media Subtitler). You see I own a small HD media player that’s connected to my TV. The trouble with this little gadget is that it does not support subtitle files. That’s not a problem anymore since DMS allows me to…
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Quick Media Converter brings Windows GUI sanity to ffmpeg…..
For those of you who’ve hated the opensource ffmpeg command line media conversion tool, here is Quick Media Converter. It’s a nice looking front-end for ffmpeg that hides the command line complexity of this swiss army like media converter. So What can you do with Quick Media Converter? -Converting Video files from one format to…
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EASEUS Disk Copy takes care of all your Disk Duplication in a flash….
I came across EASEUS Disk Copy today and I have to admit it’s pretty cool. It’s not a live disk imager, but will image just about any disk (even damaged) or partition. It also has a neat feature of being able to image one large disk onto multiple smaller disks. It boots off CD and…
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Gregory Crewdson like Toronto Strobist shoot
For our fifth meeting, TSG members decided to try their hands on a large group production. Very much in the spirit of productions Gregory Crewdson puts together. It took us nearly 3 hours to set this shot up, we walked away with 8 frames and this is my rendition of the frames superimposed in Photoshop…
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Cinema with a Twist….
The Toronto Strobist Group got together again at Ryerson. We decided to leave the studio alone and congregated instead in the Eaton’s Lecture Theater — a 199 seat theater style lecture hall — to shoot our Cinema with a Twist theme. Here is a sampling…..more pics on flickr set.