Why didn't anyone tell me…

I have an Infrant ReadyNAS x600 or whatever they were back in those days, and it’s a rock solid little network server. I also run lots of differing Macs and PCs in the house. My backup solution up until Leopard was to take complete disk images. Since SuperDuper is still a week out of releasing [...]

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I’m doing more negative tagging within Aperture, this time it’s for my pre-digital days. The quality varies greatly from project to project, some being bad JPG scans of prints for which I have no negatives, some being medium format scans from a Nikon CoolScan 8000 (which I highly suggest), some being 35mm scans from either [...]

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Well, I’ve done it. All the images are tagged, rated, captioned, and ready for export. What a mess. For the (probably nobody) listening, this has been an immense effort, and I’m glad I don’t have to do it ever again. The topic of creating books or web pages for these images is a whole other [...]

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Aperture is clearly designed well around the digital photographer. There’s always room for improvement, but I became so accustomed to the workflow and environment that I decided to use it to organize my digital conversions of 35mm negatives. Here’s what attracted me to the idea: Easy keywording. I just like the way it’s done in [...]

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I have a few, very few, audiotapes that need converting to digital so I can put the tape player/recorder and tapes in the recycle bin. I don’t really plan on doing any voice dictation any time soon, and I think there’s only one decent tape player in the house. No offense people, but its time [...]

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Yikes. I finished tagging and rating all my photos. I thing I’ll do a debreifing soon, but it’s amazing to think that I’ve finished everything but the captions.

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I’m now reaching the very end of my tagging for digital photos. I started digital photography in 1998, well before it was ready to be started in reality. Here I am with my monstrous collection of photos now, and managing that collection is a bear. Over the weekend I was able to finish the tagging [...]

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I also have a couple missing pieces to this puzzle. If I carry my laptop with me wherever I go, I can read PDF files on the road. But I’ve been looking for a usable solution to read manuals/books/documents/whatever without the full keyboard etc. like on a PDA. Being previously employed by PalmSource, I looked [...]

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I’m not completely happy with my PDF storage mechanism yet. There are lots of pieces of solutions to this problem, but I want to address a couple things that aren’t normally addressed as part of the problem, which is why I’m not completely settled on what I’m doing now. Search files and contents Searching the [...]

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So knowing that I’d be in it for $200 anyway (a decent filing cabinet costs this much), I looked at what I could get in a scanner. I was also starting to think about how I planned to use this thing. I already had an all-in-one print-fax-can-pier, which has its uses. So I experimented with [...]

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