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“But with regard to Patch Matching, it’s a miracle. It’s the next miracle. From what I’ve seen in Adobe’s lab, it’s going to be outstanding. We are making it possible to correct things so well, like getting rid of telephone or power lines going through photos, and this solves a common problem that photographers face. It’s a cool, easy-to-use technology which Adobe is working on.”

cs5.org brings us this cool video. I feel a lot of new Photoshop features are worthless, but this one definitely seems useful in general. It’s like a mega extension of the healing brush for that ex-boyfriend who just won’t go away!

Yes, its a cutsie name, but The Bug Genie is a PHP bug tracking system that is the opposite of Trac in the best possible ways. First of all you create a MySQL database and copy The Bug Genie files to your web server. Then you go to your website, where The Web Genie greets you [...]

I have just spent many hours of my life I will never get back trying to get the Trac bug tracking software set up. This software is truly junk. It’s not just that I can’t get it work, it’s that it is written as best it can to make users not be able to use it. [...]

Somehing scary happened with my Snow Leopard keyboard shortcuts. I accidentally went into Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and checked “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar” Don’t do it! Once you turn it on, there’s no getting rid of it. It’s a bug, but unselecting the check box will no do it. At some point I [...]

Well, even though my Apache issues with Snow Leopard were a bit frustrating, Snow Leopard has redeemed itself. First of all, it is noticeably faster. But second, printing and scanning is awesome. When I bought a MacBook a while ago, I got an HP C4580 printer/scanner for free. I didn’t really need a printer, but the [...]

Now, in this case it isn’t really Apple’s fault. It’s sort of everyone’s fault. There’s a reason even complex things need to be simplified and it’s to avoid the situation I’m in right now. After installing Snow Leopard on my other machine and thinking I found all the kinks my MacBook still won’t connect to a [...]

I am using the Apache vhosts feature to run multiple websites on my machine, many of which are running WordPress and therefore also using MySQL. The Snow Leopard installation was almost as disastrous as it could be for this setup. Pre Snow Leopard Installation Warning Be sure to back up your /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file before you install Snow Leopard. It [...]

I know that while it will be nice, Snow Leopard probably won’t be that big of a deal. However, I just can’t wait. I’m practically counting the hours until it’s released. I feel a little nervous like there’s something I’m supposed to be doing. And I know what it is. Buying and installing Snow Leopard! I kind [...]