Posts Tagged ‘new’
Time Machine ~ There’s a fix for that.
Earlier this week I kept getting this error message:
I dismissed it the first few times thinking Time Machine was having a funny moment. After the fifth error message I took the hint. Time Machine could not complete a backup, right I get that, but what is the error and what does clicking OK really mean?
Well it means nothing, you’re on your own to sort out the problem. The purple question mark box doesn’t offer any real help at all for the issue. David Alison (link) got the same error message three years ago. I discovered his site through a google search. A rogue folder was the source of his problem; clogging up the backup mechanism.
Yay I thought, I just need to delete this file and be on my way, no such luck. I can’t modify the drive, I can’t even format it. To the best of my knowledge it’s dead. For the moment I’m making backups manually with a spare drive.
So Apple, that dialog box above could mean anything to the inexperienced user. Maybe the Lion 10.7 update will provide a less Microsoftian explanation, as it seems to range from either being a simple job of deleting a file or paying £75 for a new drive.
Round Up ~ April’s Blog Posts
A round up of posts from the month of April, in reverse chronological order. (Newest at the top).
- App Review ~ Portfolio
- Adobe: This is how you do it
- App Review ~ Minimal Folio
- Simon Heys of Minimal Folio Interviewed
- Street Photography – Documenting the Human Condition
- App Review ~ Collections for iPad
- Simon Lunt of Teleportfolio Interviewed
- Old Media is New Media, again
- PadFolios App Review – Part 1
- PadFolios App Review – Part 2
- Fuji X100 ~ Blogs, rumours and portraits
- Fuji X100 – A week’s retrospective
- Fuji X100 – From Norway to Japan
- Fuji X100 – Mini roundup and thoughts
- Fuji X100 – Frustrations and customisations
- Fuji X100 ~ Tips, tricks and charger alternatives
- Fuji X100 vs 5Dmk2 vs 7D
- Fuji X100 – Firmware
- Fuji X100 – Personal Moments
- Fuji X100 vs Leica M9 & Raw Support
Adobe: This is how you do it.
Source: Push Pop Press
You know what is the best bit from the video, besides the wonderful animation and ever so thoughtful and considered user interface (UI)? Push Pop Press are licensing the technology to book publishers. So we should expect to see more content like this in the near future.
To think it takes a smaller company with a smaller amount of resources to design and produce something that is far more intuitive than what is the current ‘standard’ for digital books.
The book being demoed is Al Gore’s ‘Our Choice’ which is already for sale on the App Store. (£2.99 UK) link.
