Wacom Graphire Tablet and Photoshop CS4 64-Bit

Overall Photoshop CS4 Extended is running like a champ in 64-bit mode. It sees 6GB of RAM and all my plugins are working fine. However, my older Wacom Graphire tablet isn’t working for pressure sensitivty in Photoshop. There is a solution!

Apple OS X 10.5.7 and Jawbone Headset

Normally Apple’s operating system, OS X, works well with accessories such as my new Jawbone headset. The headset works wonderfully on the iPhone, but do a Google search for “os x jawbone bluetooth mic static” and see issues that 10.5.x has with most microphones on bluetooth headsets.

Buying E-Books from Foreign Countries

Grand Cayman is a wonderful place to vacation, and after four days of sun, sand, and drinks, we are on our way home. But with only a few lackluster books to read on my Kindle, how to get content?

For those traveling with laptops, the good news is that Cable & Wireless now offers free wi-fi [...]

SanDisk Cruzer & Washer

Take one SanDisk 2GB flash drive, add to a not-so-good Sears HE4T washer, then wash, rinse, and repeat. It didn’t make it to the dryer, smells like Downy, but still works. The driver source for the Realtek Ethernet controller is still on it, and it reads and writes like new.

And smells better! It is amazing [...]

Three Months with the Amazon Kindle

With a remarkable amount of press, both good and bad, Amazon’s Kindle evokes a response one way or the other. That is, for people who have a clue as to what a “Kindle” is as a product. For the last three months I’ve used my Kindle almost daily, and overall it’s a welcome addition to [...]

New AirPort Firmware Adds Time Machine Support to Apple AirPort Extreme Basestation

Apple came out with a fireware update for the AirPort Extreme Basestation and Time Capsule. People have reported being able to use exernal USB drives on the AEBS as a Time Machine destination. Great, six days after I got a Time Capsule for backups!

I would still shy away from using the AEBS with [...]

Time Capsule – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Apple announced Time Capsule, a combination wireless access point, network storage (500GB or 1TB), and remote print server at Mac World in January, 2008. It is positioned as an Apple AirPort Extreme Basestation (AEBS) extension for those that need the AEBS’s wireless capabilities, along with network attached storage that actually works.

In our house with have [...]