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Ever get this message when trying to copy a slide show from iTunes to your iphone? Problem is that the size/resolution of the slide show is large for iphone. Export the show again from iPhoto selecting ‘640 x 400 (medium)’ as the resolution.
Recover deleted trash Mac OS X
Yup, it happens to everyone every once in a while. You delete something you didn’t mean to and then, in a robust environment like the Mac OS X, you empty the trash. All is not lost IF you didn’t fill up the newly freed up space with other data. Here are some suggestions in recovering your files – yes, it is going to be tedious and you are not going to be able to simply hit ‘undelete’ to recover your folder structure intact.
- (Ideally) Boot from another system and attach your laptop as another drive. If you are unable to do this, try to use the laptop as little as possible – in other words, don’t copy data onto it. Even surfing the web saves tmp files which will render some of the files you hope to undelete/recover a challenge.
- Attach an external storage device to save the recovered files from step #3.
- Download one of the following – should run around $99 for personal license – ‘File Recovery 2009′ or ‘Data Rescue 3′ or ‘Phoenix Stellar.’
I tried both, ‘Phoenix Stellar’ and ‘File Recovery 2009′ and found FR2009 much faster. It did the job though about 30% of my photos (Canon Raw cr2 files) were corrupted. I am not sure how ‘Phoenix Stellar’ would have handled those files. Thank God, I have a habit of taking 3 frames for most shots I take as I bracket the exposure in drive/continuous mode.
If you are a migrant from the Windows world, note that undelete/recovery will not list your directory/folder structure that you can simply restore. You will see a listing of recoverable files by type and have to manually save them to the external storage/drive you connected in step #2. In my case, I deleted complete iphoto libraries with several thousand pixs neatly edited and categorized. I restored from my last backup and added the missing files recovered from the above process.
Good luck…and, backup up frequently.
WordPress error – Oops! This link appears to be broken
Unable to login into your WordPress blog’s admin utility (dashboard)?
DIY Blogging site
For the past two years, requests for creating and supporting websites have transformed into creating and supporting blogs. Increasingly, people are opting to create their own blogs as sites like TypePad.com and wordpress.com (free) offer nicely packaged hosting and online blogging applications bundled into one.
The advantage of such sites is that you do not have to worry about applying the latest patch to your blogging software and related plug-ins. For most folks, these sites offer an adequate selection of themes to pick from and changing the layout is a point and click affair.
Google Voice aka GV
Google continues to move forward with innovations regardless of hurdles. Google has been busy sending out millions of free invites for its Google Voice (GV) service and released related applications for Andriod and Blackberry phones. Its iPhone application for GV was rejected by Apple. Google will continue its development on making its web version of the application compatible with iPhone. For those of you unfamiliar with GV, it is a VOIP (voice over IP) service that is free with free unlimited SMS, free unlimited calling within the US combined with free transcription and a host of other services. As is typical of VOIP services, it works on top of a data connection so, if you have a cell phone with unlimited data connection, you could run the GV client and make your calls or send/receive SMS – free. Something, that your friendly cell phone provider would rather that you did not have. Plus, the calling rates for international calls are pennies versus dollars – comparing cell phone provider international charges per minute versus VOIP provider international charges. In the longer term, Apple is going to pucker up and make out with Google. Especially, now that Yahoo and Microsoft have inked a 10 year deal. If that is not incentive enough, the FCC just sent out letters asking Apple as to why it rejected the GV client along with a host of other questions. This does not bode well for Apple given that the senate and FCC are already looking into whether it is detrimental for consumers for cell phone providers to have exclusive agreements with manufacturers.
Lot of you may have been introduced to VOIP with Vonage. VOIP.com offers identical service as Vonage but, at a lower cost and with more options. Zoho.com is a competitor for Google in the online applications arena. So, I would not be surprised to soon see zoho launch its own VOIP.
