Posts about 'MacPro'

Musing On A Stormy Day – Hopefully The Power Doesn’t Go Out.

Musing On A Stormy Day – Hopefully The Power Doesn’t Go Out.

Well I’ve been on a role lately ranting about one of my greatest concerns, backup and data integrity. Then last night the first winter storm arrived early on the central coast of California. I am originally from the east coast, so I have a lot of experience with winter storms and how do deal with ... read more

October 13, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

KB Covers Turn Anyone Into A “Power User”

KB Covers Turn Anyone Into A “Power User”

I never quite know how to answer those survey questions that go, “Are you a Power User?” Even though I use certain applications almost on a daily basis, I can never remember all the keyboard shortcuts that I imagine a real “Power User” knows by heart. Well for those of us who haven’t memorized all the ... read more

September 21, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Live From The Bleeding Edge – Snow Leopard One Week Later…

Live From The Bleeding Edge – Snow Leopard One Week Later…

So it has been just about a week since I converted all four systems over to Snow Leopard, and I’m happy to report that for the most part, the transition has been surprisingly smooth. Other than the strange crop of “Rosetta Mushrooms” that I mentioned in my first look piece, I encountered no problems with the ... read more

September 3, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Spoiler Alert – Snow Leopard Install Report

Spoiler Alert – Snow Leopard Install Report

So I’ve just updated 4 Macs to Snow Leopard and am ready to report back on first impressions. So SPOILER ALERT if you are interested in experiencing everything yourself for the first time stop reading now….Okay if you are still reading, consider yourself forewarned… So far, it has actually gone pretty well just a couple ... read more

August 29, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Top 3 Reasons For Photographers And Other Creative Professionals To Upgrade To Snow Leopard

Top 3 Reasons For Photographers And Other Creative Professionals To Upgrade To Snow Leopard

Anyone serious about digital photography, video or audio tends to work with large file sizes and regularly performs processor and memory intensive operations. In order to feed this habit, we tend to buy multi-core systems with fast processors and lots of memory. The only problem is that up to now, we have been filling our ... read more

August 29, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

onOne D-SLR Camera Remote v1.1 For Nikon Now Available

onOne D-SLR Camera Remote v1.1 For Nikon Now Available

Apple has approved and posted onOne’s D-SLR Camera Remote software v1.1 for sale on iTunes. This application allows users to control a D-SLR connected to a Mac remotely from an iPhone.Version 1.0 announced in June 2009 initially only supported Canon EOS models, version 1.1 now provides support for Nikon models as well (see list of ... read more

August 26, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments

Saying Farewell To An Old Friend

Saying Farewell To An Old Friend

Recently I had to say “good bye” to an old friend. It was time for him to retire and he had served me well for more than 6 years, an eternity in technology time. My old friend was my 2 GHz dual core G5 PowerPC Macintosh. He was replaced with a 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Intel ... read more

August 24, 2009 in News by John Omvik 0 comments