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Christina — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:18:44 +0000

I’ve uploaded full-size versions of some of my photos that make good desktop backgrounds. Click the download link in the sidebar next to each picture to download a full resolution version.

Enjoy

How to re-combine JPEG + RAW in Aperture 2.0

Christina — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:29:24 +0000

I am currently playing around with the trial version of Aperture 2.0. As the Canon G9′s RAW format was not supported in Mac OS X until very recently, I kept the JPEGs in iPhoto, and the RAW images in folders somewhere else.

Aperture can show the JPEG + RAW of the same picture as a single image, so they do not take up unnecessary screen real estate. The RAW or JPEG master can be selected through the context menu:

But I couldn’t find a way to re-combine the JPEGs I had imported from iPhoto, and the RAW files from a separate location, though it worked fine when importing directly from the camera. A workaround would of course be to use stacks (easy, thanks to auto-stack), but that would mean that stacks are pretty much unusable for other purposes.

I tried throwing JPEGs + RAWs together in a folder, and re-import them, hoping that Aperture would then recognize them as belonging together. Didn’t work. In the end it turns out that Aperture only creates a combined master if the modification date of both files is exactly the same.

This can of course easily be done in Terminal (my RAW files were still unmodified and thus had the original date, so I used those as the reference date, it would of course also work the other way round):
for f in `ls *.CR2`; do touch -r $f `basename $f .CR2`.JPG; done

I’m still glad that I don’t have years of such files to re-combine, but at least it is a lot less annoying than using stacks for them. If anyone knows of a better way, please let me know

Hi from San Francisco

Christina — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:56:23 +0000

I’m in San Francisco for this year’s WWDC. Looking forward to meeting all of you there

Went to the Haight Ashbury Street Fair today … here are some pictures I took.

That Posting on Spyware

Christina — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:30:00 +0000

A while ago I posted a response to a discussion on the Mac User Groups volunteer mailing list about spyware. Opinions in the discussion ranged from claims that Macs are not in danger at all, to end-of-the-world scenarios. There was also a lot of confusion about the different types of malware that are out there. By now, my posting is all over the web, so I guess I can put it on my website as well

Read it …

Preparations for WWDC

Christina — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:55:00 +0000

The Moscone Center being decorated for WWDC:

There is also some cool sunset pictures in today’s gallery

In San Francisco for WWDC

Christina — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:47:00 +0000

I arrived in San Francisco last night. Some photos can be found here. Unfortunately, I slept through the middle of that beautiful sunset, and NWA also didn’t do a very good job keeping their windows clean. Otherwise, the flights with KLM and NWA were really quite enjoyable. In particular on the Airbus A330, which features a personal entertainment system where you can even play games against the other passengers. It also has laptop power in half of the economy seats

Seems some other people weren’t that lucky …

Vortrag “Bildbearbeitung ohne Photoshop”

Christina — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:41:00 +0000

Die Folien zum Vortrag “Bildbearbeitung ohne Photoshop” bei der
Mac User Group Stuttgart
gibt es hier zum herunterladen:

PDF (Bildschirmversion)
PDF (Druckversion)

Vortrag “Sicherheit für Macs”

Christina — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:21:00 +0000

Die Folien zum Vortrag “Sicherheit für Macs” bei der Mac User Group Stuttgart gibt es hier zum herunterladen:

PDF (Bildschirmversion)
PDF (Druckversion)

They say Mac OS X does not run on 68k ;-)

Christina — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:43:00 +0000

Danamania has managed to get Mac OS X to boot on a 25MHz Centris 650 using Debian and PearPC! The OS is expected to be fully up and running in about … 7 days

Switcher FAQ No. 1: Where’s $KEY on that Keyboard?

Christina — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:10:00 +0000

I think every single person I’ve talked to after they switched to the Mac platform has asked this question. It’s particularly difficult for people with German keyboards since all the characters Unix people and programmers usually need such as tilde, backslash, braces, and brackets are not printed on the keyboard and only accessible using Option or Option-Shift. But fortunately, Mac OS X comes with a little tool to help you figure out where all those keys are:
Keyboard Viewer.

It can be enabled in System Preferences / International / Input Menu. This will automatically place the Input Menu (that’s the little menu with the flag icon) into your menu bar, containing an entry for Keyboard Viewer. In Keyboard Viewer, just press any of the modifier keys (Shift, Option, Option-Shift) to see the key mappings.

If that was too fast, here’s a little movie to show you how it’s done.