Comments for Terry White's Tech Blog

Comment on How To Get Started Building Websites with Adobe Muse (codename) by Jeff Flindt

Jeff Flindt — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:02:35 +0000

Thanks for that Terry!

Comment on Thank You Finland, Sweden & Denmark by Marianne Simonsen

Marianne Simonsen — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:51:38 +0000

Hi Terry
Thank you for a great tour. I will wish I know as much as you do about PhotoShop. I will like to try to make a picture like this you show with the lady and blue overlay, patterns and so on. Is it possible to get it described or do you have a video, there you show it.
Unfortunately it wasn’t possible for me to take notes while I follow your tutorials.
Best regards
Marianne

Comment on How To Get Started Building Websites with Adobe Muse (codename) by Stephan Nicholas Reimers-Dahl

Stephan Nicholas Reimers-Dahl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:59:54 +0000

Yeah that looks intuitive. Will try it out.

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Ronni Pedersen

Ronni Pedersen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:12:08 +0000

Great tip… Thanks for sharing…

Comment on Thank You Finland, Sweden & Denmark by Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:41:46 +0000

Looks amazing, Terry!

Comment on How I use Lightroom and Dropbox Together by tifonga

tifonga — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:23:31 +0000

If anyone here is still reading this old thread — i would love advice on using Dropbox with LR 3. i read the post and comments here and basically don’t understand how to do it.

if i use “export” to save out a catalog (and its actual photos, i would hope – i understand that some people here prefer not to do that) to my Dropbox folder, then where do my original catalogs live? in Dropbox, you generally grab a folder (let’s call it Puffball) and drop it into your Dropbox folder. it is sort of like an alias: when you go “into” your Dropbox folder to work on documents in Puffball, Dropbox changes it on your hard drive (though you have lost your original file heirarchy and your personal filing system in order to dump stuff into Dropbox). it also changes it in the cloud on Dropbox, and later when you fire up your laptop it makes the changes there, too.

i tried moving my Lightroom catalog folder to Dropbox as i would do a normal folder, and of course LR freaked out and lost all its links. one would think a sophisticated application like LR could handle a move like that *when all the photos are in the same master folder as the LR catalog itself.* every web program and any basic FTP and shell commands do that. i’m not sure why LR doesn’t. but anyway, if i export it to Dropbox, will Dropbox sync to my original Puffball folder and files, or do i have to Export and then Delete the original Puffball? that seems kind of insane.

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Robert Barnett

Robert Barnett — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:28:38 +0000

I don’t use wifi any more than I have to. At home everything is wired no only for security but because it is much faster than wifi even if I am the only one using it. When I do have to use wifi I find it almost more trouble than it is worth. Do they really expect you to spend 5 minutes getting the wifi logon at my local McDonalds when I will be done with my meal in 10. I don’t think so. At hotels I won’t use wifi for security reasons. While it is unlikely someone is going to hack me a bunch of unknown people on a third parties net access is sure a great place to try. So when I am I use 3G this is why I have an iPhone and an iPad and will have a MacBook Air once they add 3G or better 4G to it.

Robert

Comment on Thank You Finland, Sweden & Denmark by Erik Bernskiold

Erik Bernskiold — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:31:01 +0000

Always good to have you here my friend.

Comment on Thank You Finland, Sweden & Denmark by Jesper Vang Skærbæk Jensen

Jesper Vang Skærbæk Jensen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:32:32 +0000

So sad, I could not attend here in Cph today … hope you’ll return with a future Lightroom 4 show later in the year
Is your photo taken from The Marriott Hotel towards Cinemaxx ?

Comment on Thank You Finland, Sweden & Denmark by Hampus

Hampus — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:53:56 +0000

Thanks to you guys as well!
Really great tips, and fun to meet you in person, and not only see you on video.
Also thrilled that we were more people attending in Gothenburg than in Stockholm…

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Glyn Dewis

Glyn Dewis — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:43:32 +0000

Note to self: Put Ethernet cable in ThinkTank Airport Airstream

Cheers for the tip Terry.

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Michael W. Perry

Michael W. Perry — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:36:49 +0000

The problem with wired in that awful Ethernet connector, designed when computer meant a desktop PC. Apple would do the world a giant favor if it created a MagSafe-like design for wired connections. It’s also allow them to make slender, better looking laptops.

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:22:47 +0000

I remember you posting about traveling with one of those and I picked one up right away and have been using it ever since, saved a ton of headaches with slow wifi..

I love your mod for the LED

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Terry White

Terry White — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:04:38 +0000

Some hotels don’t have a problem with multiple devices, some do. In the case of using my Airport express with NAT the hotel sees/gives out one IP and the AirPort handles assigning multiple addresses to the other devices.

MiFi is great and I have a couple. The problem arises when you travel internationally as data roaming can be quite expensive unless you buy local SIMs.

Comment on Travel Tip: Use Wired Internet instead of WiFi by Price Taylor

Price Taylor — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:51:56 +0000

Mike, you are correct that many hotel’s wifi networks will disallow multiple devices/IP addresses. I think the only way that Terry (or anyone else) would get around this is to use wired ethernet and then the airport base station. Each other device in use would have to make sure that they are associating to that SSID and not the one in the hotel room.

If you travel enough, go mobile router (aka MiFi), available from all the major carriers.