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Optimizing Adobe Lightroom

August 3rd, 2009

Macperformanceguide.com posted a really interesting article about how to optimize your Adobe Lightroom performance. It turns out for example that when exporting 100 images, you can better export 50 images twice since Adobe Lightroom starts to process them in parallel. More tips can be found in the original article.

Optimization chart (image from macperformanceguide.com)

Optimization chart (image from macperformanceguide.com)

Photography, Software

Free FPS: Battlefield Heroes

June 10th, 2009

Battlefield heroes is a free cartoony first person shooter. From the Battlefield heroes site:

  • Battlefield Heroes™ is a free cartoon-style shooter for the PC
  • Combining classic gameplay with brand new innovations, it’s a totally new experience
  • Cartoon-style graphics bring the fun back to shooters
  • Third person camera so your Hero is centre-stage!
  • Create your own unique war Hero with extensive character customisation system
  • MMO-like special abilities add strategic depth to combat

Make sure to checkout the screenshots on the Battlefield heroes website.

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Battlefield heroes logo

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Disk Inventory X

June 3rd, 2009

Last week I saw the free disk space left was below 2GB. I found the free tool Disk Inventory X and was surprised what took all the space :)

screenshot

screenshot

Software

Fun with your webcam

May 7th, 2009

A customer of mine asked if there was an equivalent of Photo booth to use on Windows. On the web I found Snap! a user friendly tool which can apply some funny tricks on your webcam image including mirror, text-balloons and more.

Snap! example (picture from Snap! website)

Snap! example (picture from Snap! website)

Software

Usability blog

April 6th, 2009

A friend recommended me this blog about usability. The write about various topics, which are usability related.

usabilitypost

Graphic design, HCI, Software, web ,

Print documents as booklets

March 25th, 2009

A friend of mine showed me CocoaBooklet, which is a free tool for OSX which makes it possible to print everything as a booklet.

cocoa_booklet

Software

WordPress anti spam in comments plugin

March 21st, 2009

Michiel had a very nice comment on my blog. If you post a comment and make an error in the captcha the whole comment is deleted and you can type the thing all over again.

Spam

Spam

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Software

Display rotation menu for OSX

March 19th, 2009

The monitor I am working on is a Samsung 244T. This monitor has the capability of rotating from landscape to portrait mode. OSX supports rotating the screen, but to do so you need to go trough a lot of menus.

Display Rotation menu icon

Display Rotation menu icon

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Hotmail / Livemail pop3 settings

March 17th, 2009

From now on both hotmail and Windows live mail support pop3 for retreiving your mail. The settings are as follows:

  • Incoming
    • pop3.live.com
    • use SSL port 995
  • Outgoing
    • smtp.live.com
    • use SSL port 25
  • NOTE: use your full id, that is for example johndo@live.com or johndo@hotmail.com
new mail!

my new mail count after adding hotmail to Mail

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Check your MacBook battery condition in OSX

March 9th, 2009

Last two weeks I noticed my MacBook Pro’s battery really started to fail. When watching a movie my battery was drained within 45 minutes. Since my MacBook Pro only 11 months old, having such a bad battery should not be the case.

On the Internet I found some tools to check the condition of the battery…

Coconut Battery screenshot

coconutBattery screenshot

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