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Tag Archives: Mac
Party Like It’s 2009!
Last week I wrote about upgrading a Mac Pro tower with a Solid State Drive or SSD plugged into a Peripheral Component Interconnect express card which I placed into one of the PCIe slots within the Pro’s enormous aluminum chassis. … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Curious Clutter, Joe's Garage
Tagged 2001, Adobe, computer, Joe Williams, Low End Mac, Mac, Mac Mini, tear down, upgrade, USA, vintage
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It Lives Again!
Wherein I rummage through the graveyard of my old computers and try to cobble together a monster that will serve me in this modern age. Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Joe's Garage
Tagged 2009, Apple, Carbon Copy Cloner, Mac, Mac Pro, PCIe, SSD, upgrade
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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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Posted in photo manipulation, Photography
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Apple, coloririze, computer, digital, Mac, Neural Filters, Photoshop
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