Archive for the 'Tech' Category

iTunes Free

Unlike a lot of people out there, I really dislike iTunes.

So second to go after disabling dock from my system, iTunes is gone from my macbook. It’s really quite easy and Apple provides some very clear instructions to do so.

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Computer Keyboards

Ladies and Gentlemen,

May I present to you two very clean 4 year old keyboards:

Photo of Clean Mac Keyboard

Photo of Clean PC Keyboard

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Moved

Well, I’ve done it. Moved hosts from Dreamhost to A Small Orange. Did you even notice the downtime? Continue reading ‘Moved’

Sumo’s first day

Sumo makes himself at home on the first day and annoys the hell out of Manja, Jojo and Tricky.

This crappy video was shot on my mobile phone, edited and converted from .3gp format to .flv with Super.

Also an excuse to try out serving videos on my blog.

iRecover (and other file recovery software)

As you know, I’d lost tonnes of photographs.

However, I’m glad to tell you that I’ve retrieved about 90% of them. Perhaps closer to 100%. Thanks to iRecover that I discovered at DIY DataRecovery. Continue reading ‘iRecover (and other file recovery software)’

Chkdsk sucks

So I’ve run chkdsk and my photos are still gone.

All I’ve got are a gazillion .chk files.

Thanks WinXP!

What am i going to do with these files?

Lost photos

I am amazingly calm.

Calm for a person who has lost almost 40gb photographs of a trip to South America and South Africa. Continue reading ‘Lost photos’