I am trying to decide what lens to buy for my Canon EOS 350D. The first descision to make is what focal length I need. To do this, I found a nice tool which can display statistical info about your photographs. It shows you how many foto's you've made at certain focal lengths, with which aperture, ISO, metering, and …

Once in a while I like to take black and white pictures because the EOS has a nice built in set of color filters. The easiest example of a nice black and white photo where a color filter produces great results is the classic "blue sky with Yellow filter". You should really check out the great tutorials on …

The Mac has been on for the past few days, even with the Maxtor FAT32 250GB drive connected, without problems. I hope it doesn't break down again, because I'd have to bring it to a different Mac store and explain the whole thing again... Anyway, I was playing with iTunes and found a simple trick to find double entries. …

So, finally the first post on my blog since 2 weeks of Mac absence. I really got annoyed by the repair guys at Mac support the past few days. I started calling them daily, and discovered if you don't, your repair just simply will sit there on a shelf. For some strange reason, they ordered a superdrive for my Mini, the …

As you've probably read, my brand new Mac Mini has a memory problem. I have brought it in for repair, but I am "slightly irritated" by the speed at which the guys from the www.macsupport.nl stores pick things up. Friday, May 6th: I've found out that the mini has a consistent, reproducable memory problem. I …

In my last post, the Maxtor OneTouch drive was the prime suspect of the spontanious crashing of the Mac. Tonight the Mac mini crashed again, but this time without the Maxtor connected to it. So I set out to do a thourough memory test in single user mode, running memtest. And after a few iterations it was there: The …

Today I spent some more time using Google to find information on why my Mac suddenly crashed. I am now 99% that the cause of this all is my Maxtor OneTouch 250GB drive, which was formatted as one big Fat32 partition (screenshot). Although I connected it to a friend's iMac for a short period without problems, and it has …

Vorig jaar heb ik mij aardig druk gemaakt over de abnormale manier waarop steeds meer mensen met dodenherdenking omgaan. Dit jaar was mijn ervaring gelukkig een stuk prettiger. Ik heb een klein stukje van de herdenking op de dam gezien, en dat was duidelijk een stuk beter dan vorig jaar. De taptoe werd foutloos en …

Eclipse looks really nice on OS X. I can tell, I have it running on my mac Mini duo core. If you have problems getting it to start, and the logfile complains about linker errors, chances are you have the PPC version of the eclipse app file. To check this, Ctrl-click on the eclipse.app file. If it doesn't say …

On one of my Google quests, I stumbled upon a great story about a few guys who got fired by Apple, but continued to sneak in and out of the building, finishing the software they had been working on. It is a great read, and I think it would make a nice adventure movie. It will probably will not be a box office hit, …