Tips & Tricks

How to: LaCie Safe Manager on 64bit Mac Lion (with LaCie Rugged Safe drive)

September 6, 2011

I’m totally in love with my new LaCie Rugged Safe 1TB drive. It’s a rugged external drive, Firewire 800 / USB 2, which is encrypted using your fingerprint. Sounds fancy, right? It kinda is – and it works wonders. The AES 128-bit encryption is plenty for me. I’m not storing secrets on it, but I’m [...]

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Fixing Lens Creep on Nikon 24-120mm f4 and 18-200mm VR lenses

April 14, 2011

What’s lens creep? Well, lens creep is basically what happens when your zoom lens is quite front-heavy so if you hold it down it might creep out (zoom) by itself, or if it’s already zoomed out and you hold it up, it might creep back down again. If your lens is creeping in or out [...]

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Easy Ways to Get Stunning Photographs from Your Point-and-Shoot

March 5, 2011

Maybe a DSLR camera is out of your price range, or maybe you are too intimidated by the myriad of knobs, buttons, and lenses that come with shooting with such a camera. Or then again, maybe you simply do not want to lug your prized camera to your son’s muddy soccer game, but still want [...]

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How to always play YouTube videos in HD – automatically!

October 19, 2010

Why settle with low quality 360p or 480p quality on YouTube if your broadband connection can easily stream in HD? And why settle with manually selecting “720p” (or better) each time you want to stream a YouTube video in HD? Well, you don’t have to. Here’s how… First make sure you’re logged in to YouTube [...]

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Tip: Reduce Thumbnail File Sizes in Aperture 3

April 10, 2010

Just a quick tip on how to reduce your Thumbnails folder in Aperture 3 with around 50%, if you’ve been running Aperture 3 since it was first released. The latest update (3.0.2) fixed an issue with thumbnails being larger in filesize than actually needed and I concur – my thumbnails folder was almost 9GB for [...]

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Aperture 3 Performance Fix – Make Slow Aperture Run Faster

April 6, 2010

Just a quick tip to you Apple Aperture 3 users out there, who are experiencing a (very) slow running Aperture 3 – like I did. Mine was so bad, I was about to go crazy. It could easily take 5-10 seconds to make adjustments, and that’s just not good enough. I figured Aperture 3 was [...]

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D-Town TV: The Weekly Photography Show For DSLR Shooters

March 29, 2010

This is just going to be a quick post about a video podcast I really enjoy watching. It’s a weekly show by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski for Digital SLR photographers, but anybody who enjoys photography will be able to learn from this show, though some of the DSLR tips of course only applies to [...]

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3 Facebook Privacy Settings Everybody Should Know (+ Fun Videos)

March 23, 2010

A few months ago, Facebook popped up on most user’s screens, asking to modify privacy settings according to new settings offered by Facebook. Undoubtedly, many users just clicked through it and adapted the privacy settings suggested by Facebook, probably leaving your profile more open than it was before. No matter what, it’s a good idea [...]

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How To: iCal Birthday Reminders With Alarm (iCalBirthdays 2.0)

March 12, 2010

Here’s a quick and really neat trick for Mac users who would like to have birthdays listed in iCal. As default, your Mac will easily display birthdays in iCal, based on dates from your Addressbook, but it can’t give you an alarm and there’s no way to modify the events to do so. So, somebody [...]

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Gmail Tip: Trick Gmail Into Checking Your POP3 Accounts Often

March 3, 2010

I recently moved away from MobileMe as my primary Inbox, to which I had a few other e-mail accounts forward e-mail to. I was happy with MobileMe as my e-mail provider, except for the fact that some e-mails never arrived, not even in my spam/junk folder. I investigated and found out that the sending SMTP [...]

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WordPress Plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do (WWSGD) – “If You’re New Here…”

October 11, 2009

I’ve received quite a few questions already from my great techpatio.com readers, asking me how I get that message to appear at the bottom of my posts that (per default) says: “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!”. I changed mine a bit, so that it [...]

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How To: QuickTime X Autoplay Movies On Open In Snow Leopard

September 2, 2009

QuickTime X is the newest version of QuickTime Player for Mac which comes with the new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a major leap forward that advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X includes a brand-new player application, offers optimized support for modern codecs, and delivers more efficient [...]

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