That is cool. At work I have two monitors, so I'm used to moving the mouse between them. Sometimes I bring my iBook with me and set it next to the two monitors. I often find myself trying to mouse over from a PC monitor to the iBook screen. I've thought that it would be cool if I could actually do that, but I considered it unlikely that it would be made doable.

If I get some spare time I'll have to try this.

Another handy thing you can do is to get an external drive enclosure (USB or Firewire if you have it.) and put your old HD in that and plug it into a usb port.

I often find myself trying to mouse over from a PC monitor to the iBook screen.

During my hard drive nastiness recently, I would use my gf's iBook to surf the net while working on rehabilitating my PC, and I would frequently get confused and irritated when a pointer wasn't working or a keyboard command was not responding, before finally realizing I was attempting said commands on the wrong input device.

It would sometimes even take me quite a while to figure out the the mouse could not make the iBook pointer work, or that the track pad wasn't connected to the PC.

Geek True Confessions.

Okay, new and exciting problem.

My mother's chorus has a logo. It was created so long ago that there isn't a digital version of the logo. The copies we have aren't a very high resolution.

How can we create a high-quality, high-resolution copy of this logo? Is the only option to get someone to recreate it? If so, how is that done?

This may seem somewhat low-tech, but couldn't you scan it on high dpi, and convert it?

I don't know. I know she has a business card, but that's a pretty small image to start with. And I don't know enough about graphic design to know what the requirements are.

Me neither. I suppose you could make it a bmp, then blow it up, then repixellate it to smooth it out or something. In theory.

Your best shot I think would be to do as Wolfram suggests. Scan what you have at as high a resolution as possible, then blow it up. It probably won't look great, but it might be easier to touch it up rather than starting from scratch. At worst, you can use it as a template to recreate it.

Depending on the logo, it may be possible to redraw it, using the scan as a guide, and working on layers above it -- either using your graphic app's trace function, or quasi-vector functionality, which many have these days.