a little bit of everything…
Photoshoot: 2010-08-23
I wanted to do a black and white photoshoot with a friend of mine. We ended up walking a little more than we expected due to the very hot weather, but in the end, it was well worth it. He had a look that I wanted to capture, and I thought it would be a great opportunity and learning experience for the both of us.
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Photoshoot: 2010-11-12
I had just got my new Canon 60D and Canon 50mm f/1.8 II, which I’ve recently replaced with a Canon 50mm f/1.4, and decided to take a few shots of my best friend at Yahoo! This wasn’t really a serious Photoshoot in any way, but I thought the pictures turned out pretty good considering we were just playing...
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Seams Boutique SF was my first full website that I built and designed from the ground up. I then decided to port it over to a WordPress theme, which was NOT easy, so that they can take full advantage of its blogging capabilities. I am very proud of this site. I spent very long hours learning all types of different web design code, along with...
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OS: Lion Mac OS X Version 10.7.2 As simple as it may be, some people may not be aware of the “Hide” & “Show” option within the Finder sidebar. If you accidentally Hide your Favorites, you may not realize that there is a “Show” button that appears when your cursor hovers over that particular area. This is what your Finder may look like. Hover your cursor to the right of the word Favorites and the word...
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Are you torn between multiple browsers? Do you wish that your bookmarks were in sync? Well, there’s a simple solution. It’s called Xmarks. It’s simple to install and works seamlessly thereafter. I am personally using Firefox and Chrome and really wanted a way to keep my bookmarks updated on both browsers. Created an account - Xmarks Install the plug-in on both browsers by going...
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I’ve talked to a few friends that own Mac’s and they’ve all ran into the same “The volume can’t be ejected because it’s currently in use” problem when attempting to eject an external hard drive. I did a little online searching and came up with a solution. I’m not sure if it’s the best solution, but it solved my problem. FIrst, I ran into an Apple Support page which stated that it may be...
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Most of us have joined the icloud extravaganza and are now dependent on Apple not losing our data. Just imagine how upset you would be if you all of a sudden lost all your contacts. I personally am running OSX Lion 10.7.2 and I’m going to show you a simple way to backup your Address Book contacts onto your local hard drive. Launch Address Book File > Export… > Archive Address Book… Choose a saving destination (I...
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Have you noticed that you’ve lost a good portion of your hard drive space ever sense you upgraded to OSX Lion? This may be due to a Time Machine feature that now does local backups when your Time Machine hard drive is not connected. Why would Apple do this? By creating local snapshots/bakups allows the user to still have the capability of going back in time to recover their files (all the benefits of recovering your files without the...
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