Thinking of increasing my working space with the Apple LED cinema display. This way I will have 2x 24″ to play with my photos.
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yOOrek

To cut the long story short – clean all the air vents on your iMac to avoid overheating. There are three of them at the bottom of the casing. After close to two years of uninterrupted use my iMac started to to run a little hot. Especially so when doing some intensive photo processing in Lightroom. At first I blamed it on a hot weather we have here in Switzerland. Then I thought it might be caused by new features in Lightroom 3 (lens profiles). But the situation was getting progressively worse. To the point that I could no longer export any photos. CPU was reaching 80 degrees centigrade, HDD bay was getting towards 70. I was getting more and more warnings from the temperature monitor. Then it dawned on me that I have not done any cleaning since I bought it. All it took was a simple swipe with my hand to realize how much dust has accumulated on the vents. After the thorough cleaning with the vacuum cleaner all is back to normal. Exported close to four hundred shots in one go and the CPU has not gone over sixty five degrees. One more vent is to be found just over the mains plug. Do not forget about that one. I think it must be for the CPU but I am not sure.
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yOOrek

In addition to TimeMachine backups I use Mozy to backup my photos. Over last couple of months it was a real PITA to use. It had some problems connecting to servers, backups were not really finishing properly. I found that turning TimeMachine off for the duration of backup helped. However this was not very practical.

Well, I am happy to report that the new version is out (1.6.0). It looks like the issues are gone.
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yOOrek

This turned up today. I know, I know, this is a Microsoft product, some people have to use it however. Still prefer the Apple suite.

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yOOrek

This just came through the software update -

iMovie09 Software Update

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yOOrek

My daughter started complaining that her iPod touch does  not respond to the volume controls and to the power button. After making sure that she is not doing something totally stupid, and that the device is still covered by the warranty, I took it to the local Apple Store.

As the genius bar was quite busy, I had to wait for about one hour and a half for my appointment but as the Apple store is located in a big shopping centre, I had no reason to complain. Went for a cup of coffee, and while drinking it had a chance to use Twitterrific on my iPhone. When my time came up I went to the Genius Bar, and after describing the symptoms, the genius decided that I will get the replacement. That means a new iPod. How nice of Apple.

Now my daughter has a brand new iPod touch, still under warranty. After bringing it home I upgraded the OS to 3.0. Costs 11CHF, here in Switzerland.
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yOOrek

While playing with my new iPhone 3G S, I have discovered something I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else.

By going to your Settings » General » Usage screen you can see a new option for battery percentage.

iPhone usage settings screen

This is what you’ll get when you set it to ON -

iPhone screen showing remaining battery percentage

Unfortunately users of older iPhones do not get to see this option.

Enjoy,
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yOOrek

Up until today, there was only one iPhone in my household. This has changed. Now there are three iPhones, two of which are 3G S. And one of them is mine. I guess having two daughters helps with disposing of the old iPhone.

Moving all my contacts was easy. All I had to do was back-up my old iPhone using iTunes, then insert the SIM card into the new one. iTunes asked me if I want to restore from the backup or initialize the phone. I opted for the restore, and few minutes later I had all my contacts, messages and applications on my brand spanking new phone.

As far as my old iPhone was concerned, I erased all the contents from the Reset menu. It took about an hour to do so. Do not really know why but the process finished without a problem, and I was able to set it up as if it was a brand new one.
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yOOrek

I had a problem with my Mail.app for last few days. All over sudden one of my accounts started showing a little triangle icon next to its mailbox. Upon clicking on this icon it informed me that the connection to the server was refused due to minimum time between mail checks violation. WTF. When I went to Connection Doctor (you can find it in the Windows menu) all was looking OK. And yet, I had messages on the server that were not being downloaded.

Searched the net far and wide looking for a solution. Found nothing helpful. Some suggested removing preferences file. Bad idea. It screws up with with your existing settings. Sets up some new accounts but that’s pretty much it. In the end what fixed it was the removal and subsequent re-creation of the offending mail account. Now it works.

So, there you go, problem solved.
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yOOrek

Something I found on the net today. How to tame the unpredictable (at least to me) behavior of Safari tabs. Sometimes the link will open in new window, sometime it will open in the new tab. How is this determined? Who knows. Here is what I found – to prevent opening links in new window just type this in your terminal -

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool TRUE

Et voilà no more issues with new windows.
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yOOrek