Revive Dead SSD

Got a dead SSD? My 256GB boot drive packed up yesterday. I tried reformatting it in Apple’s Disk Utility and in the Terminal, and also tried in Windows 7. All efforts to format failed, and eventually the drive refused to mount.

I got this from Crucial Support: plug the power cable into the drive, [...]

Topaz Black & White Effects Released

I use the Topaz Plugins with Aperture, and they’ve just released a new plugin – B&W Effects. The full price is $59.99 but there’s $30 off until 18 Sep if you use the coupon ‘bwandbeyond’ at checkout.

Here’s a before and after of St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York that I took earlier this year, [...]

Reset iPad Backup/Sync

Several times lately when I’ve tried to sync my iPad it’s failed to complete the backup stage, even after 10-12 hours. If you force-quit iTunes and try again iTunes will skip the backup with the error message:

“iTunes could not backup the iPad “Chris’s iPad” because a session could not be started [...]

Bye Bye Facebook

OK I’m convinced. I’ve deleted my Facebook account. Here’s the story from Jason Calacanis via Leo Laporte.

[Update] And from the BBC: Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting.

[Update] And from the New York Times: Privacy Settings.

MacBook Pro Natural Disaster?

MacBook Pro – Natural Disaster

The is a screenshot of JuneCloud’s Delivery Status Touch running on my iPad. The Apple status panel says my new MacBook Pro will be delivered tomorrow, the UPS panel says it’s stuck in Shanghai due to a natural disaster. Interestingly, yesterday UPS were reporting that it had arrived in [...]

The iPad’s Here!

The iPad

I picked up a trip to New York last week, four days after the Apple iPad was released. The SoHo Apple Store only had the 64GB models in stock – luckily that was the one I wanted. I also bought a second AC charger to keep in my travel bag, a Belkin [...]

Broadband Speeds

We’ve been back in the London flat for a few weeks and the broadband speeds have been variable. Over the weekend my trusty Netgear DG834G router was reporting a connection (to Zen Internet) of 5617 kbps but the broadband speedtester on thinkbroadband.com was reporting actual download speeds of only 1027 kbps i.e. only one meg. [...]

Printers Were Sent From Hell

A funny article from The Oatmeal about printers and how they haven’t really changed in 20 years…

Printers

From The Oatmeal via Gizmodo

Animator vs Animation

via fc01.deviantart.com

Great animation! Thanks John for pointing me towards this.

Posted via web from Chris Parker’s posterous

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More on Readability

David Pogue has posted an article on the NY Times about Readability – well worth a look… I’m using it all the time!