Archive for February, 2008

Replacing a Hard Drive in a MacBook Pro - The Good, the Bad, The Ugly

Friday, February 29th, 2008

After becoming accustomed to upgrading to newer MacBook Pro models every year, I finally convinced myself that I'd try hanging onto the same 2.16GHz laptop for a little longer, even if it was out of warranty and a whole 240MHz slower than the latest-greatest. I already had 4GB RAM ...

Renaming Images Based on EXIF Data

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I take a lot of photographs. Thousands per year. I've been keeping them on DVD and on hard drives for years, but recently I noticed an odd thing - the "date created" and "date modified" reported in Finder have been wrong. Not just a little wrong, like ...

A Few More Desktop Images

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Here are a few more desktop images. They're 1920x1200 and will downsize to 1680x1050 smoothly. Enjoy!