Once you’ve gone Mac you’ll never go back … or so the saying goes. I’ve been a PC guy for many years, decades in fact. My life started with my first PC, an IBM Clone XT with 640KB of RAM an 5 1/4″ floppy drive, 10MB hard disk and a 16 color EGA screen. It was the best thing in… Read more →
Category: Software
How to backup photographs and keep them SAFE!
I just backup photographs to my NAS. They’ll be safe? yeah? These are some famous last words. Its always good to have a NAS and it is part of a backup regime but in itself, it is not a ‘complete backup’ per se. So what is backup in a computing sense? Backup is the concept of making extra copies… Read more →
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Beta Review
Adobe has released a public beta for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5. It was only around 12-14 months ago that Lightroom 4 was released and now Adobe has unleashed a Lightroom 5 beta to the masses. The main new features for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 are touted by Adobe as: Advanced Healing Brush – Easily remove objects and fix defects—even those… Read more →
Using Google Earth to plan a landscape shoot
Technology has come a long way since the old days of topography maps. More often than not during my 4WD travels I will carry topographic maps as a backup to today’s modern GPS mapping devices but very rarely do I crack the old map folder out unless the electronic maps don’t show a track that I’m looking at. Even with… Read more →