I’ve dabbled here and there in photography and it’s always a good diversion every once in a while from juggling bits and bytes or ink on a page. A cliche as good as any: helps you see things in a whole different light.
Here’s my photo site: hkp.
Have a good day, people!
Spyder 3 Pro attached to monitor during calibration
Ensuring that color remains consistent across display devices and printers is a definite must for anyone who takes photography and compositing work seriously.
For the past five months I’ve been using a Spyder 3 Pro to calibrate four monitors connected to my Hack Pro system.
Click to continue reading “Color it right: color calibration with the spyder 3 pro”
Following my foray into building a Hackintosh Pro earlier this year, here’s a short update plus additional tips to help you folks build one yourself. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s my earlier post on building my rig using a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard.
The good thing is that Snow Leopard works flawlessly with the build.
Click to continue reading “‘Tis the season: updating my core i7 hackintosh pro rig to snow leopard”
A Snow Leopard follow up to this post is here.
A couple of months ago I built a quad-core Mac Pro equivalent “Hackintosh” based on Intel’s X58 and Core i7. All components were selected for their compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard. My goal was to build as close a Mac Pro clone as possible using off the shelf parts, with the ability to do Apple Software Updates on a retail, unmodified OS X installation as you would with a real Mac.
Click to continue reading “The apple of my eye: building my core i7 hackintosh pro rig”
Jun 29
“Good stuff,” he said, not looking at anyone in particular. “All I want is good stuff. Nothing more, nothing less. I want my little bit of sweet, and to have it more than the bitter. Way more.”
Jeffrey Mistlethorpe had not yet realized the calamity of the situation he was in.
Click to continue reading “Good day”
