Installed an SSD as system disk in my hackintosh. Migration worked perfectly, speed is amazing. Regular harddiscs are an incredible bottleneck. :-P Before you buy a new Macbook (for example) upgrade the thing with an SSD HD. It might already provide enough speed. BTW. The model I chose was the “OCZ Vertex 2″. Seemed to [...]
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Hackintosh Ahoy!
Hooray ye olde swashbuckling, grogg drinking plank lumpets! I’m writing this post on my very first hackintosh which I got to work after 3-4 days of fiddling around and reading, reading, googling, reading, and so on. You get the picture. I have to say, once I got myself the right parts, it was darn easy [...]
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Epson R2880: Proofing 2.0
I already wrote an article about printing proofs with the Epson R2880, little more than a year ago. Since then, I tried out various approaches. Here’s what works best for me and what I still consider a “low budget” solution, compared to a professional RIP of course. ;-) First, the hardware: The Epson R2880 is [...]
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Welcome PS3
Okay this is not really news, just giving a little heads up what was cooking in the past couple of weeks. I was actually offering myself a little luxury good: A PlayStation 3. I sold my Wii with all the stuff I got for it and was able to finance a PS3 this way. So [...]
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Erratic Calibration Results
Thank god, my eyes aren’t messed up: It was just a bad calibration device. I tried to match both of my screens yesterday and I couldn’t figure out why the heck a calibration target of D65 has a huge tonal difference on my iMac monitor and on my Eizo CG242W2 – apparently, my eyes didn’t [...]
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GUI shame: Touchpanels
I’m currently doing a lot of design-work for high-end touchpanels. One should expect that a touchpanel in the price range of around 3’000$ to 5’000$ each should be able to render truetype fonts smoothly. Bad luck: AMX doesn’t even support OpenType fonts to date and looks as bas as Crestron-rendered fonts. This is really disappointing. [...]
Welcome: Mac Mini
After much of back and fourth and sleepless nights, I ordered a Mac Mini and a Lacie 4big Quadra RAID (4TB, 3TB/RAID5) this week. I’ve gone through countless options, even a low budget Hackintosh-setup with a PCI-Express RAID interface/Hotswap-cage and a FreeNAS setup. The thing which made me end up with a Mac Mini was [...]
Fileserver: NAS or not, that’s …
…the question. The amount of data I have around here isn’t the problem. I’ve plenty of space left. The thing which makes me worry is the reliability of my space. I’m currently running 2 LaCie Harddrives with a total of 1.5TB space on my iMac’s FW800 port. 500GB for my iMac’s TimeMachine, 1TB for the [...]
Proofs: Epson Stylus Photo R2880
Now this took me about 2 days to figure. Most Epson printers don’t support any sort of PostScript printing. You will notice that once you try to print a page from Illustrator or InDesign: The printer-icon shows up in the dock, just to disappear 10 seconds later. Meanwhile, the printer makes a little rumba – [...]
MacBook Pro: DVD Write Error
I tried to burn a DVD recently on my mac and encountered an error during writing, right at the start (while writing the lead-in). At first, I thought my drive’s dead, since before that, even reading regular CDs was very slow. I googled a little and came across all sorts of explanations, from “you have [...]
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PDFs für PRS505
Ein paar Tips zur Konvertierung von PDFs: Bei allen Dokumenten lohnt sich der Versuch, das komplette Dokument in eine RTF Datei zu konvertieren. Leider funktioniert das nicht immer gleichermassen gut und man muss gegebenenfalls anschliessend von Hand ein bisschen formatieren. Der Vorteil von RTF Dokumenten ist, dass man Metadaten erfassen kann, gleichzeitig aber immernoch ein [...]
Sony PRS505
Vor knapp 2 Monaten habe ich mir einen E-Book-Reader von Sony gekauft. Nachdem ich in der Zwischenzeit wohl um die 1’200 Seiten gelesen habe, lohnt es sich einmal eine Zwischenbilanz zu ziehen. Grundsätzlich finde ich den Reader sehr gut, der Text auf dem Display ist extrem angenehm zu Lesen und seit ich den Reader habe, [...]
LINEA
Heute kam was ganz tolles mit der Post: LINEA, vom deutsch-spanischen Designer Gabriel Kornreich. Ultimativ simpel, aber mein Nacken dankt es mir bereits nach ein paar Stunden. Der Herr Kornreich macht die Laptopständer übrigends in seiner Küche von Hand.
Neu im Stall: MacBook Pro
Ach ja, fast vergessen: Ich habe mir vor 2 Wochen ein MacBook Pro 17″ gekauft. Es wird mein altes, gestandenes Powerbook ersetzen. Es hat viel durchgemacht, 2-3 Rutschpartien auf Glatteis und einen Unfall auf der Landstrasse. Irgendwann dazwischen ist die AirPort-Karte dahingegangen, ansonsten ist es aber noch topfit, halt einfach langsam und fuer prozessorlastige Anwendungen [...]
Ich brauche einen neuen Monitor
Mein 19″ TFT ist langsam ein wenig zu klein für meine Bedürfnisse (an das tote Pixel habe ich mich ja schon lange gewöhnt). Gross sollte er also sein, der Neue, sicher grösser als ein 19″-er. Am liebsten schwarz. Ich glaube .. so etwas im Stil dieses kleinen Monitors hier. Reicht sicherlich bestens für alle Photoshop-Toolwindows. [...]