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Tag Archives: Apple
Are You Really Backed Up?
Is your data safe? Can you still access it? You may want to take a look! Early in this century I had bought a pricey CD burner in order to offload data to free up room from my tiny hard … Continue reading
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Posted in News
Tagged Apple, CD-R, disk rot, disk won't mount, Mac, optical drive, unreadable
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Caturday
Aluminum pillow. Plywood rests on an old Mac mini.
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It’s Pixels Versus Pigments, Again
The late, great Dan Love was a good friend and a technological guru who pushed me kicking and screaming into new computers and gadgets I never realized I needed until I started to use them. He was passionate about computers … Continue reading
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Posted in Illustration, Pixels Versus Pigment, Technique
Tagged Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, analog, Apple, Bristol Board, brush, cartoon hippie, Dan Love, digital illustration, Hippie, Illustration, ink, iPad, Joe Williams, Mac, pen, Procreate, sketchbook, USA, Willceau
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Thinking Differently
We were in the market for a new computer and I was hearing great things about the current Mac mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. The video reviews I watched were mostly enthusiastic for Apple’s entry level desktop computer so … Continue reading
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Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged Apple, computer, M1, Mac, mini, robot, Supply Line
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Caturday
Plywood seeks warmth and attention.
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Honest Abe Lincoln
I came across this famous photographic portrait of Honest Abe and decided to play with Adobe Photoshop’s new Neural Filters. With the touch of a button and maybe a two second delay, black and white photographs are automatically colorized.
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Posted in photo manipulation, Photography
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Apple, coloririze, computer, digital, Mac, Neural Filters, Photoshop
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OK, Now We’re Done
With the addition of 16GB of RAM (four matched chips of 4GB RAM) my used/new-to-me Mac Pro is ready to go!
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Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged Apple, bargain, computer, graphic design, Mac, used
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Swimming in the Low End
I just purchased a used 2009 Mac Pro to use as a replacement for my recently departed dual G5 Mac Pro which I also purchased used. It served me well as a graphic design and digital illustration production machine, and … Continue reading
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New Home for the Hackintosh
My Hackintosh or Customac Mini as the folks over at TonyMacX86 call it was assembled inside of an Apex MI-008 Mini-Itx Case that included a 250W power supply and not a lot of room to spare. As I was assembling … Continue reading
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Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged Apple, computer, Cooler Master Elite 130, DIY, Hackintosh, i3, Mac, mini-itx
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