yOOrek's Rants'n Raves » mac http://blog.yoorek.com The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:40:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Things you never knew your pointer is doing http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/04/05/things-you-never-knew-your-pointer-is-doing/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/04/05/things-you-never-knew-your-pointer-is-doing/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:52:48 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/04/05/things-you-never-knew-your-pointer-is-doing/
IOGraphica - 3.7 hours (from 20-59 Mar 25th to 0-42 Mar 26th)

IOGraphica – 3.7 hours (from 20-59 Mar 25th to 0-42 Mar 26th) Originally uploaded by yOOrek

Original comments by yOOrek:

Winterthur, Switzerland, March 2010

Ever wondered what your cursor is doing throughout a day. This image represents the cursor movements over a period of 3.7 hours. Black dots and their size represent a spot and a duration of cursor inactivity. Want to learn more? Google IOGraphica.

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• IOGraphica •

2010-03-03-2059-0000

Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.

Copyright © 2010 yOOrek

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

]]> http://blog.yoorek.com/2010/04/05/things-you-never-knew-your-pointer-is-doing/feed/ 0 I jumped the ship http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/11/30/i-jumped-the-ship/ http://blog.yoorek.com/2008/11/30/i-jumped-the-ship/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:56:53 +0000 yOOrek http://blog.yoorek.com/?p=287 I’ve finally jumped the ship. Last Friday I’ve finally ordered a brand spanking new iMac. Top of the line 24″ aluminium model with 3.06GHz Intel core duo processor, 4Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD, 512Mb nVidia graphic card. On top of that I got myself 1Tb Time Capsule. Got it through Apple Shop on Black Friday. Now for the disappointing bit – it will arrive some time mid-December. I know it is not that far off in the future, but you know how it is when you wait for a new toy. The time just drags on and on.

iMac

iMac

On the other hand this gives me two weeks to plan the migration from Windows, get Mac version of the software I use on almost daily basis (Photoshop, Lightroom), some new software for calibrating the display and clean my desk.

What would be interesting is crossgrading from Windows Adobe CS2 to Mac OS X CS4. I am going to call Adobe here in Switzerland and see how much the crossgrade will cost me. And then, once my iMac is delivered, the journey will begin. I’ve already identified few places in my photographic workflow where I’ll be forced to make some changes. I use Downloader Pro to transfer my images from camera to HDD. I know there are some other programs that do just that but I have failed to identify a program that creates XMP files and Geo-codes the images at the same time. Downloader Pro does it in one go. Lightroom should not be a problem as it should work just the same as under Windows. Lightroom export plugins for Flickr and Zenfolio should work as well.

Hardware calibration might be problematic as apparently the brightness of iMac screen cannot be turned down enough. And I do not want to use shades as it introduces some color cast. There is some software that works with i1 Display2 puck and addresses this issue. I’ll have to look into this.

Anyway, it looks like interesting and busy X-mas for me.
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Without wax,
yOOrek

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