My Own World...

Yesterday, I was able to update my MacBook Pro HDD! Now, let's hope that the 1Tb HDD will have enough space for my pictures :) BTW, I used this guide to do it

I have my WD My Book Live 2Tb as a key part of my backup strategy . The problem is that it was running quite low. Super super low, actually. I searched a lot and everyone complained about how slow the HDD was for Time Machine backups. I never experienced such a problem until now.... Anyways, I used the HDD menu to return it to "Factory Settings". The backups were even slower afterwards! The solution? Does not login as GUEST (as suggested by WD documentation) but as ADMIN! Here are the steps to do so: Remove the NAS from the disk list in Time Machine Go to WD ip address in your personal network. Click on Shares Eliminate the TimeMachine (or TimeMachineBackup) share. Please note that this will delete your entire backups! Create a new share (I named MacBackup) and give access to the admin user (check that is read/write access by selecting the "blue pen") If the admin user does not have password, be sure to add one (and remember it!) Go back to the main ...

Why more backup?... is the question that my wife/friends always ask me when I mention the keyword " backup "...  Since I lost several of my pictures after the sudden death of my "warehouse" disk back in 2001, I decided to always keep a second copy of my files. About two years ago my DELL computer died and I was able to recover about 99% of my files thanks to the double copy I had... but all the pictures got corrupted metadata and I had to manually update their info on a picture-by-picture basis. I haven't finished yet. Since then, I decided to change my backup strategy. If you look around, you will find cases of people who lost  +8000 of their pictures , or, as one friend, who reinstalled his /home partition in top of is *only copy of tons of pictures*. If you value your data, you should have backup. And a second copy on an external hardrive is never enough says Scott in this blog post . Anyways... I wanted to share here my backup plan. It may inspi...

Como conte hace unos dias atras , tengo un smart playlist en iTunes de las canciones que nunca he escuchado. La cuenta en ese entonces era de unas 2,500 canciones... Desde que comence a compartir mi libreria de iTunes en mi red y puedo poner mi musica en la tele gracias al Apple TV, la cuenta ha bajado muchisimo! Es genial poder escuchar musica mientras juego con mi hijo o simplemente mientras trabajo. Realmente recomiendo el Apple TV para quien tenga (y le gusten) los productos de Apple. En fin... la cuenta ahora va en 1880 canciones que restan ser escuchadas. Solo 5.6 dias interminables de canciones =)

Cuando compre mi primer MacBook Pro (en Enero 2013) tenia una tremenda colección de música en mi respaldo. Como queria ponerme a trabajar de una y no perder tiempo, simplemente agregue todas las canciones en iTunes, sin siquiera ver que grupos escucho mas y cuales no. Evidentemente hay muchísima música que nunca tengo el tiempo de escuchar! Después de leer este post acerca de las smart playlists , me di cuenta que tenia muchísimo poder en mis manos para administrar mi música. Así que cree una smart playlist de las canciones que nunca había escuchado... Y fue mas que asombroso notar que tenia mas de un unos cuantos pares de semanas de música en dicho playlist! Lo genial? He eliminado muchas canciones/álbumes que tenia por tener y ni me gustaban (Como muchos álbumes de Maná) y a la vez he escuchado y re-descubierto muchas que ni recordaba que existían! Y a pesar de que aun me quedan 2,500 canciones por escuchar (> 7 días de música) falta tan poco que ya es un placer hacerlo...

Just learned this... So will copied as is from the source ( here ) I just learned something remarkable, and I have to write it down so I don't forget: Often IEEE conferences will require you to submit a PDF with embedded fonts. If you're forced to do this, no doubt you're familiar with a hugely irritating fact about most LaTeX packages: they don't embed fonts by default. There are workarounds, like the ps2pdf command line parameters that force font embedding, but using them can be awkward (e.g., if your LaTeX target isn't postscript, or if you're using a GUI LaTeX editor). But if you're a Mac user, like me, here's all you have to do: Open the PDF in Preview, and then save it again. It's saved with fonts embedded. That's it, seriously! Awesome, right?