In contrast to the left-brained PerfectOffice where Dan works, the MaJoStudio is where Mary puts her creative talents to work.
Dan does tech support; he's now a StudentOfMacOsX. Mary is a shutterbug; Dan hopes for the FilmKiller.
29Jul2004: Amazon is pretty smart... they have a "sell your stuff" button where they lists stuff you bought there and help you sell it. Since we got an iPod mind, we don't need this rio 32mb backpack any more. Any takers?
March2004: On my Feb2004 trip to BOS, I wanted to show some colleagues how good GarageBand? sounds. TimBL? has GarageBand? on his laptop, but the built-in speakers didn't do it justice. Then he plugged in some powered speakers and WOW! So I've been checking out speaker prices and such since then. This week I got a 5 P.c flat panel speaker system for $30 at target. distributed by Jasco Products. UPACode 030878980234.
20Dec2003: OO extras: labels includes a CD stomper template. It worked! yeah DebianPackage:openoffice.org, DebianPackage:hpoj, DebianPackage:cups.
PescoPrinter is a new HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One; it's pretty nifty. It doesn't print scrapbook pages, which are 13" wide, but it's a big step up from the Epson C40UX that came free with mmac.
21Jan2003: Epson Stylus Color 1520 prints on wide paper and gets 3 penguins from the linux printing site.
Jun 2003: We're looking for a firewire disk (got it sometime before 6Dec2003. not sure what to do with it yet). What's the rule of thumb? 1GB for a minute of video? What's a competitive price? $400 for 250GB, $260 for 160GB at microcenter.
21Sep2003: picked up a 200GB IDE Western Digital WD2000JB with 3 year warrantee at SAM's for $160. UPACode 718037104461.
Not sure whether to stick it in DirkMachine or stick it in a firewire enclosure for the iMac...
backup strategies... ConfidentialityVersusAvailability Hmm... Bytecc ME-320F for $42.
3Oct2003 Ordered a BYTECC ME-320F for $42 + $8 shipping at NetPCshopper/yahoo. 8Oct2003 got it today: UPACode 837281003211.
Wild... this enclosure was made in china by who knows who... there's no brand name on the enclosure nore the box it came in... OEM'd by BYTECC, sold by netpcshopper, brokered by yahoo, and shipped by UPS and my only contact with any of them was via the net.
The disk "just works" with mmac (ok, well, actually, disk utility hung the first time I tried to partition the disk. But the problem disappeared on the 2nd try). But it's noisy, so we'll probably turn it on only when we need it or something. And you have to remember to unmount it. (hmm... StudentOfMacOsX question: is the OS X filesystem journaled?) Not really "on-line". Hmm... servers and clients are really, really different.
At least I learned how to wake up mmac remotely... maybe... (StudentOfMacOsX).
Hmm... what about replacing the 60GB internal disk with this big one? I know apple doesn't condone this... and this article iMac G4 - Exchanging Optical Drive, Hard Disk, RAM By Stefan Horn Written 7/13/2002 shows how tricky it is.
@@iMovie 3 problem report.
18Mary2003: playing with iPhoto 2... hmm... iPhoto slide shows... in SMIL, using AppleScript?? seems it's been done.
18Jan2003: got the camera a week or so ago... off to canon registration
not sure if they KeepPostRecords, so keeping a copy here... s/n 102506103855. date of purchase: 29 Dec 2002.
UPACode: 013P0010527
Gee... they ask a lot of questions... and they asked for my email address but don't seem to use it to send me a copy of the registration. No privacy policy :-{ email options are opt-out :-{ need WebMasterClues.
29Dec2002: choosing a digital video camera. cnet's editors choice for an affordable camera is the Canon ZR40 . At ~$400 street price, we've decided we can afford it.
- get the accessory pack? "The included rechargeable lithium battery has a rather short life span: just 1 hour, 15 minutes when you use the LCD."
- cnet review
mini dv tapes are about as cheap locally. ($30 for 3 at circuit city )
where to buy it? wasn't beach camera recommended by photo.net? nope; on the contrary. We went with digital direct, one of cnet's picks. They had the best accessory pack deal.
26 Oct 2002 DV format technology article bookmarked.
@@more on ebay victories...
Problem: LegacyVideo, LegacyAudio.
video projects: EighthGradeVideo, MarysSecondVideo, MushcakeVideo,
iApp Power Play by Derrick Story 12/03/2002
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