I hadn’t been able to sync my iPhone 4 to iPhoto once since I got it. It would try, but then tell me it couldn’t read any of the files for some reason (which I forgot to note, but there was a specific reason). I found a fix, though: 1. Go to user–>library–>caches–>com.apple.iPhoto–>Cache.db and trash [...]
Entries Categorized as 'General Geekery'
iPhone wouldn’t sync to iPhoto – fix
July 23, 2010
iPhone 4 and Zagg screen protector
July 22, 2010
I had to exchange my first iPhone 4 two weeks after getting it. The screen had a few scratches on it already, and the proximity sensor was a mess. I cheek-dialed, cheek-hung-up on calls, etc. Luckily, Apple was good about swapping it out with no drama. The replacement phone still has the proximity sensor issues, [...]
Nearing completion
July 10, 2010
So I’ve been sitting on the mixes for my new album for two weeks or so now, listening for things that still bother me, and getting feedback from some friends. So far, the feedback has been good! Of course, it would figure that now would be when Avid/Digidesign finally releases a version of Pro Tools [...]
Counting to 10 in 10 languages
July 10, 2010
My new project for the summer: learning to count to 10 in (at least) 10 languages. I’m up to 5 so far. English Spanish German French American Sign Language I thought it would be cool, if not useful, to be able to speak even a little bit in more than one or two languages. I [...]
It’s coming together…
January 31, 2010
So, the album is coming together nicely. All of the vocals are sung, and I’ve been working on comping them and picking out the best parts. I found a great horn player, Bill Scholl, and we got together a while ago and recorded some ideas for the song “Drive Me”. After listening to the parts [...]
What’s new?
October 21, 2009
I was making good progress, recording at a (relatively) good pace through the end of the summer. Vocals are done for 7 of the 12 songs, and that’s more than half. But then it went and got cooler outside and I went and caught a cold. I don’t think it was the pig flu or [...]
Bracketing in Photoshop to Fix iPhone exposure problems
July 14, 2009
I took a couple photos of a beautiful summer sky over a field the other day on my iPhone. I couldn’t quite get the exposure right, though. If I focused on the ground, the sky got blown out, and if I focused on the sky, the ground was very dark. I remembered reading about bracketing [...]
Update
June 25, 2009
Quick update. I’ve found myself using Twitter (which in turn updates my Facebook page) a whole lot lately, as it’s easier to write a 140-character “what I’m working on now” update than to write a full blog entry. And more people tend to read Twitter and Facebook than my blog here. But to recap, for [...]
Guitars, guitars, and more guitars. And computers.
May 16, 2009
Over the last two weeks, I’ve recorded the guitars for just about half the songs for the new album. It’s quite the process. I’d done fairly fully-fleshed out demos for most of these songs, and so started out the “real” versions by importing the demo parts as a road map once the drums were tracked. [...]
Back in the saddle
April 22, 2009
I finally got my Pro Tools setup stable on the new computer and got some work done on the solo album over the last couple of days. I decided to start with the guitars in “Everything’s Fine”. I re-recorded over the imported demo tracks (which were time-shifted as I imported them to fit the song’s [...]