I’ve started playing around with Python, and the more I do the more I like it. Python makes it very easy to do simple, scripty…
Category: Computers & Internet
Sure, there are a bunch of brush set for Photoshop out there. The hard part is knowing what to get. To help, here’s 5 sets that I came across that would fit in pretty much anyone’s collection.
Hi resolution tree silhouettes
Need a tree? Head over to BestDesignOptions.com and download a set of 25 tree brushes.
I’ve been repurposing an older notebook to become a media computer for the past couple of days. Since it’s a notebook the sound is stereo…
As geeky as I am you would think I would have heard about Apple Remote before this week. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been an…
It’s come up a few times where I’ve needed to get a screen shot from my iPhone. Turns out there are two ways to do it, one of which is built into the phone.
Easiest way is to hold down the home button and press the power button. You’ll hear the shutter sound and the screen shot will be saved into your camera roll. Piece of cake. You’ll still have to get it from your phone to your computer, but that’s not too tough.
Found a great excuse to buy something useful about my iPhone a few days ago. My 4 month old daughter was crying like she was…
Can’t say I’ve ever seen the point of Twitter. But it does make for a funny video. Watch Real Life Twitter on CollegeHumor
One of the first photo projects I can remember my dad and I working on was stopping the splash of milk dropping into a dish.…
I’ve had some bad luck with external hard drives. For a while I was using a 100gb as my primary photo drive. Well, it died. Fortunately I was able to take it apart and plug the drive into an EIDE controller and keep the data. It was backed up on DVD, but getting it off the drive was much faster and easier.
Next I bought a 250gb Western Digital MyBook to use as a backup drive. After about a month it started clicking which was indicative of a hard drive failure. Back to WD it went under warranty and they sent me a new one. To their credit their customer service was very good about replacing the drive. About a week ago my backup routine started sending me emails that it couldn’t find the drive. So this morning I took it apart to see if the drive was still good (it was). So it’s still going to be a backup drive, but moved to my Linux server where I can keep a little more airflow on it and hopefully not have the issues.
But since it was such a pain to take apart I figured someone out there might like to see the steps.
This is the drive the way it looks laying over on its side ready to get taken apart. There are a lot of different MyBooks and I wasn’t able to easily find instructions on how to take apart this particular model.
