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Thanks to the folks at Lasso the Moon and Develop, I’m participating in a 366 photo challenge.  I’ve tried this before and epically failed, but this challenge is unique because you use your phone camera!  So, so far, I’m having lots of fun with my picture a day and keeping up only because, unlike my camera, my phone is always there and on.

Along with a few fun apps, I decided to pick up some accessories for my phone.  Photojojo has some fun looking lenses I’ve been wanting for a while.  So, thanks to a little Christmas cash I was ready to shop.  I got the Macro/Wide Angle lens and the Telephoto lens.

The Macro/Wide Angle lens attaches to your phone magnetically via a small metal ring that comes with the lens and sticks on with adhesive.  So, the metal ring stays on your phone, but the lens pops on and off.  By unscrewing the end of the lens it transforms from Wide angle to Macro.  Here are some examples:

Before Wide Angle Lens

After Wide Angle Lens

Before Macro Lens

After Macro Lens

The Telephoto Lens come with a lens cleaning cloth, a slide on case for your phone that the lens screws on to (so nothing needs to stay on your phone when the lens isn’t in use), and a universal holder that screws into a tripod (also included).

Before Telephoto Lens

After Telephoto Lens

Before Telephoto Lens

After Telephoto Lens

If you like what you see, head over to Photojojo!  Their examples are much nicer than mine and they have a lot of fun accessories to choose from.  Happy Snapping!

The other day I uploaded a gazillion photos from my iPhone to iPhoto and somehow pressed “keep photos” instead of delete photos afterwards.  I figured I could just chose my iPhone from the sidebar of iPhoto and delete then that way.  Nope.  Maybe access my phone through iTunes and delete the images that way?  No.

I did eventually find a super easy way to get the photos off though!

The fix is here.  On a Mac you just use the “Image Capture” application (found in the applications folder).  Easy peasy.

So after successfully installing Windows and Star Wars: The Old Republic on my late 2008 MacBook, I was able to play.  The game is awesome, but actual play is a little bleh on my MacBook.  I’m used to zipping through WoW like cake.  So, this was a little frustrating.  The biggest issue for my was load times for conversations at quest givers and having to squint to read everything said by an non-english speaking beings in the game.  Not to mention the pure heat my poor little laptop was throwing off.  It’s stuck with me this long and I didn’t want to kill it.  I’ve upgraded to a Mac Mini hooked into my TV via HDMI and use a wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse.  My only issue so far has been the fact that the Mac Mini does not have a cd/dvd drive. I can share the drive from my MacBook wirelessly, but not to install Windows.  Boot Camp on my laptop will not allow the “Create a Windows 7 install disc” option.  The option is there but it is greyed out and the box next to it cannot be clicked.  So, I had to figure out how to create a windows install disc on my macbook that I could then use to install Windows on my cd drive-less Mac Mini.

Here’s what I did:

1. Created an .iso image of the Windows 7 installation CD using #1-10 here.

2. Enabled file sharing on both the MacBook and the Mac Mini.  I placed the .iso image I had made into Dropbox on my MacBook and moved it to the desktop on my Mac Mini.

3. Plugged in a USB flash drive to the Mac Mini.  I used this one.

4.  I was then able to use the “Create a Windows Install Disc” option in Boot Camp on the Mac Mini and follow the instructions from there on.

Hope this helps!

Hi All!

So my next three posts are a little out of the ordinary for me, but might be useful to you.  Well, this one might be useful to you if you happen to have an older MacBook (late ’08 for me) as your primary computer and really really really want to play Star Wars: The Old Republic online.  Specifically, if you get past using bootcamp to partition your disc, install windows, and get the “Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer” when installing the drivers from a disc.

I tried everything I could Google to access the drivers on the disc and the only thing that actually worked was super simple.  I found it here.  I had to tweak the command lines to make it work for me though.

So, here is my tweaked version of the work around:

1. Boot into Windows and enter the disc you made during the bootcamp install with the supporting drivers on it.

2. Click start (or the windows icon in the lower left of your screen)

then go to “all programs”

then go to “accessories”

then right click on “command prompt” and choose “run as administrator”

the commands you want to enter are:

D:   then press enter

cd drivers\apple  then press enter

drivers\apple\bootcamp64.msi then press enter

That should do it for you.

At least I hope it does.

May the force be with you!  The dark side of the force, that is… muahahahahah!

Change by Levni Yilmaz

By CollegeHumor.  Found via Geek Tyrant

Before this holiday season I’d never made a quilt.  Something possessed me to try and make not one, but four quilts as gifts.  Two were intended for my geeky gamer brothers.  So, after a little detective work into what their all time favorite games are, and a LOT of hours…

Zelda Ocarina of Time:

a little close up:

20 cross-stitched characters from Ocarina of Time based on the sprites by ThuhJesheeKuh.

Final Fantasy VI Quilt:

16 embroidered characters from FFVI based on the art of Edison Yan.

a closeup:

I decided to do rag quilts with a mix of flannel and plain cotton on front and snuggly fleece on the back.  Lots of work and time, but totally worth it when I saw the guys faces.

Now on a New Years note, have you seen the new Calendar from Scout Creative?

Yes!  Join their calendar of the month club and print this baby now!

Happy New Years all!

Can we kill cancer cells with sound waves?  Gabriel Rhodes narrates this week’s This American Life.  Jonathan Brody and Anthony Holland experiment with an old/new method.  Does it really work?  Listen and see what you think:

So Crazy it Just Might Work

Moose-Toad Guardian.

by Edison Yan of Egg Doodles