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MacBook Air reinstallation and hopefully Time Capsule transfer

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

OK, so I’ve completely wiped my MacBook Air, time to rebuild it. Here is a list of things that have to happen. Sure sounds Windows like doesn’t it

Remote install Mac OS X. Sigh. This is going to take 4 hours over the air apparently
Try the Time Capsule recovery which comes during the standard [...]

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F2 in Mac

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, F2 on the Mac changes the screen brightness on MacBooks, but when you are in Excel, you want F2 to be brightness and F4 to be change cell references from absolute and so forth. With the F8-F12 this isn’t an issue, you can unmap those to get to F9 which is recalc by [...]

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Panasonic DMC-LX3

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

While SLRs are getting incredible, the whole compact end is stagnant. Even with a 14 megapixel sensor, the small size means they are noisy and getting a decent shot at ISO 400 is nearly impossible. That plus slow lenses means I really don’t like the quality. This is a semi-professional camera much like the [...]

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