China Travel Etiquette Photos, Videos and More
This site [www.seatguru.com] is fresh — I wish I would have known about it earlier. You can pick any airline and view details about checking in, baggage weights and limitations plus much more in a very clear, uniform layout for any airline.
Best of all, it shows you all the best and worst seats on the exact plane you’re flying on, as well as any amenities (looks like Ma’s flight on Cathay Pacific may have AC/DC power ports?) and tips on why certain seats are no good.
Bob
Note: Make sure no applications are open except CCCloner when you do this.
1 Download Carcon Copy Cloner for the Mac
1.1 Install it.
2 Get an external hard drive ready and plug it in
2.1 If the network NAS drive causes problems, just connect a firewire drive locally.
3 Enlarge this photo in a separate window
3.1 Select the “source”, or the Internal inside Ma’s computer
3.2 Select the “target”, or the destination firewire or NAS drive
3.3 Click the lock and type in the admin password
3.4 Click “Clone” and wait a few hours.
4 Check to make sure the files are there (do a file size of comparison and random checks in different directories)
5 Format and reinstall OSX on her computer
6 Take Helen’s G4 specs, find out how much RAM you can add, and add at least a 1 GB from Crucial.
BOB
Skype (video beta for Mac) automatically found my Panasonic video camera. Yeah whatever, right? It found it attached through the FIREWIRE connection! Before my Mac would only allow the USB connection, and you had to set the camera to “web cam” mode.
I don’t know what happened since then (about two years ago) but now it automatically finds the camera through the Firewire port. That is crazy.
-BOB-
Thanks to pano add-on in Photoshop (with the smart picture merge) and some editing knowledge, I finally created another masterpiece. Thank you, thank you. Chuxiong City starts is on the righthand side and this photo is (obviously) facing west.
Go to this directory and click around for different sizes. The grain on the picture is because I was shooting at 800 or 1600.
Enjoying the free time while it’s here,
Bob
Update:
I took these a little earlier with a 50mm and I had it at f/1.8 so it could have a faster shutter speed in the dark. I learned a little about Photomerge, so the editing on this one was about 1/2 the time.
Update 2:
Here’s towards the city a few minutes before the other first “update” shot.
The latest movie edited in Final Cut Pro 5.04. It’s pretty dry!
Shot of Chuxiong City, taken a little before that last picture entry. CX is nestled in a valley between the surrounding (LA-like) mountain range.
I think, to make this a better picture, you need to set the camera to a fixed mode so that the exposure for the sky stays the same. Otherwise you get different color skies (as seen in the photo.)
There are also Photoshop tricks, I can’t really remember, but something about going in channel layers, going to the blue layer (which then makes the photo B/W temporarily) and you match the shade with the neighboring shade, and presto, you have the same color blue when you exit out of channel mode.
You can also see how I clone-tooled the left hand side of the overlapping skies (which kinda works), but the right side, the sky was just too bright so I gave up.
I’ll try this again tonight on the mountain.
-BOB-
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