The summer holiday is coming up, and my idea of a great summer is dozing away in a hammock with a good book. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman My summer reading includes Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman – pre-ordered from Amazon and hopefully here in time. Oyster Boy Another reading recommendation is Tim [...]
image © Apple Different places, different needs Startup Items lets you open the same applications every time you log in, but that is not necessarily what you want. I have different uses for my MacBook Pro depending on where I am, and I want different programs started and different servers mounted at work than I [...]
I am often asked about a good book for learning Photoshop, so here it is once and for all. My experience with Photoshop is professionally as a designer from version 4 and up since 1996, and before that as an amateur since version 2 in 1992. When I got Adobe Photoshop for Photographers at work [...]
Personal experience A colleague and I did a large project involving green screen photography last year, and here are a few words about what we learned from that experience. There are quite a few sites with blue- and green screen tips and tutorials out there, but most concentrate on video, which is a little different [...]
Technology often acts really strange, and sometimes makes us act strange too. My three year old Powerbook G4 suddenly got into the habit of turning itself off a few seconds after I turned it on. Technical support told me it’s probably a failure in the power management unit that makes it sensitive to heat. Since [...]
I was travelling with an electronic ticket on my way home from Paris to Oslo. These are the destinations that Air France suggested after reading the information on my card: It is always important that user interfaces come through as reliable, but in some areas it is more important than in others. Call me a [...]
The best way to do internet development is to set up your mac to do it all locally. PHP and MySQL are the most popular tools for internet development, and they will be the focus of this article. There are many sites telling you how to install these, but most require compilation and other words [...]
