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For all us old-timer geeks there is still hope! I want this baby!

I found via IRC that even US Whitehouse has own Flickr account and must say Obama has changed quite many things. He takes internet seriously. Go on have have a look of these “explicit shots” from whitehouse.

Definitely on shopping list, if not then make yourself. How about some icons, er pillows?

Adobe icon pillows

So you upgraded or installed spanking new photoshop CS4 and all seems sluggish now? maybe even crashing? We all know that new version should at least work decently on fresh hardware. Main problem lies in new feature which is meant to give a performance boost. Idea is good but to get performance boosts as intended, you need for example FireGL or Quadro based graphics hardware. This of course costs a lot.

Try to disable the OpenGL acceleration.

Toggle “Enable OpenGL Drawing” under Photoshop > Preferences > Performance

So you might have seen that your disk utility reports ILLEGAL NAME in red and cannot fix it. Usual mac enthusiastic tip is to do reinstall. O behold, here’s how to fix it easily.

1) Boot to single user mode by pressing command+S at reboot until you seen black screen

2) when white cursors block appears after lots of text, type “fsck -f”

Wait until it does repair. DO NOT be alarmed if your computer fans start howling like vacuum cleaner. This could take 10-30mins at older macs.

3) once the white block returns or successful completion announcement comes, press enter (if there is no white cursor block”)

4) type “reboot”