Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


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Jesse - May 25, 2009 5:58:32 pm PDT #10117 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

You can do some editing on Flickr, not sure if it's all you need to do.


§ ita § - May 25, 2009 6:02:21 pm PDT #10118 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Not enough.

I think it's ironic that most of my image work is done not on the Mac, but since I use it with a trackpad and not a mouse or the tablet, it's not for the fiddly stuff. But I would like to be able to process my provocateuse pictures through it.


Lee - May 25, 2009 6:14:10 pm PDT #10119 of 25501
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

So if I just accidentally disconnected my LaCie disk while it was backing up my laptop, and now my computer won't recognize it, even after I rebooted both, is there anything I can do except buy a new one?


le nubian - May 25, 2009 7:25:54 pm PDT #10120 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Perkins,

I don't know what to tell you, but that happened to me 2+ years ago with a Western Digital and the damn thing was nearly fried to shit.

I was able to copy off files that I needed and then I stomped on the thing and threw it out of the house.


Lee - May 25, 2009 7:32:20 pm PDT #10121 of 25501
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Yeah, I think that is what I am going to end up doing.

Feh.


§ ita § - May 25, 2009 8:17:28 pm PDT #10122 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I found what I used: Graphic Converter which came with, although it seems I can buy it. But it was free with Tiger. Where'd it go???? That's not fair.


Gris - May 26, 2009 1:34:12 am PDT #10123 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Graphic Converter has never come free with the OS, Tiger or otherwise. However, it HAS come free with various generations of new Macs, just like iLife comes free with all new Macs.


Gris - May 26, 2009 1:46:30 am PDT #10124 of 25501
Hey. New board.

Oh, yeah, I do indeed have an Intel Mac. Sorry about that.

Seriously, though, check Preview. With Leopard it added some good color-balance stuff under Tools->Adjust Color, and it can definitely resize and crop just fine.


Jessica - May 26, 2009 4:13:30 am PDT #10125 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I paid for iLife '09 when I upgraded, overall I think it was worth it. The new iPhoto is pretty fantastic.

(The new iMovie, on the other hand, I may actually hate EVEN MORE than its predecessors. And my old version of FCX won't run on my new computer because I don't have the right graphics card. Which means I'll probably wind up paying to upgrade - the newer versions can run on the integrated MacBook Pro graphics cards. Oh, and Avid discontinued FreeDV somewhere along the way. BOO EXPENSIVE NONLINEAR EDITING SOFTWARE.)


evil jimi - May 26, 2009 4:19:31 am PDT #10126 of 25501
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Going back a bit to that list. The Blu Ray is doomed but maybe not for a while. Swinburne Uni in Australia has developed a new system that can store up to 64 HiDef movies on a DVD. It's all to do with different coloured lasers n shit like that but even though they've signed a development deal with Samsung, it won't be commercially available for at least 5 years.

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