Permanent Tourist

by Mark Howells-Mead

Posts about mac

  • Saving time with a Time Machine

    Saving time with a Time Machine

    Setting up a new Mac to be just like your old one is easy with Apple’s Time Machine software.

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  • On death

    On death

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    No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is […]

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  • One of those laptop shots

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    A work colleague, backlit by the sun coming in through the window, flash laid on keyboard and bounced from laptop screen at 1/8 power to give f 2.8 at ISO 100. Fill-in flash from camera right at 1/1 power (losing 2 stops due to diffusion). And a little bit of dark vignette added during post-processing […]

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  • A Gift From Mapple

    A Gift From Mapple

    My favourite quote: “I know that our slogan says ‘Think differently’ but our real slogan is ‘no refunds’” :-) Update: It would appear that Fox Entertainment strikes again. The video clip has been removed from YouTube.

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  • An Inconvenient Truth

    An Inconvenient Truth

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    I’m not usually one for political speaking or speakers who hold forth on environmental issues. Quite often, I find the subject boring or repetitive, the speaker uninteresting or the presentation so uninspiring, that it makes my brain shut off altogether. This evening, however, an hour and a half of Swiss channel SF2‘s evening programming was […]

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