Today I am way too tired for a full fledged report and I really want to do John Billingsley justice, so I decided to share two of my geek moments with you that also have to do with FedCon.
While sifting through my photos during the weekend, faithfully tagging all of them so I won’t get totally lost, I suddenly realized what my most used keywords were at that moment:

Keywords in Adobe Lightroom
Now, how cool is that? Usually I see only rather boring keywords like ’sunset’, ‘dresden’, ‘flower’, or ‘macro’. Having the …

Every Mac-user: head over to MacHeist and profit from the incredible bundle of software there. Oh, and spread the word! The more people buy, the better the chances that all the apps are unlocked.
Uhm, and if you want to be nice, contact me before you buy and I can refer you – which will unlock additional apps for me. It’s like a snowball system: I refer you and get two app packages unlocked, you refer someone else and so on.
Come on, what are you waiting for?
Update++++It’s so cool! 25% of …

A little while ago I reviewed the app VideoDrive, which helped me to manage my 800+ TV show episodes. About a month ago the developer of a similar app, iFlicks, approached me via email and asked me to test out his application.
Needless to say, to have a dev ask me to do that honors me quite a bit and I promptly downloaded the app and gave it a swirl.
Result in a nutshell: for my day-to-day movie management I have switched to iFlicks. It suits some of my needs better than …

Well, sometimes it’s good be a part of mailing lists, otherwise I would have missed on the great giveaway by MacHeist. In the spirit of christmas they are giving away free copies of fun and useful Mac apps and if you refer friends – and those friends register with MacHeist – you can get even more apps.
iConquer
iCame, iSaw, iConquered.
iConquer is an addictive game of world conquest, played by one to six players. The object of the game is to conquer the world by occupying all countries on the map.
Link …

Finally, after years and years, college is finally over. This Wednesday at 10.30 am I took the last of my final exams (and sucked, but who cares now) and passed. On my way out of the building I dumped my review papers into the trash bin, wearing a slightly insane grin on my face ;)
My mom permanently damaged ear drum when she screamed in the phone when I told her that her daughter now has joined the ranks of academics. And my colleagues showed up in  surprisingly large numbers to …

Mac computers don’t play AC3 files natively so what to do? And how to add them to iTunes so you can sync them to your iPod or Mp3-player of choice?
First thing’s first: How to play those files? You need to download the A52 codec, that will enable Quicktime to play the files. Read the instructions in the »Readme«!
Now, I am running Mac OS Leopard and conversion did not work for me with mac3dec.1.6.3 – it worked fine under Tiger, but not anymore. Instead, I downloaded MpegStreamclip. Just load your AC3 …

Finally I have all the time I need to re-install all my essential applications and migrate my data.
As I wrote here, a very nice employee of Cyberport helped me backing up my data from my broken MacBook before sending it in for repairs. Thank godness he did, because the Mac was returned to me with a new logic board and a new hard drive.
Migrating Mails
This was on top of my priority list. Since I didn’t have a clone of my system, I could not use the migration assistant and had …

7 March – about 7pm
My Mac goes to sleep … and doesn’t wake anymore. Not matter what I try. P-Ram reset doesn’t help; the hardware test says everything is fine … so why does the MacBook only boot until the Apple logo and then refuse to do anything? I can’t boot from the DVD. That worries me. At the same time I am I oddly relieved: At least the Mac waited until after I finished my final thesis to break … some small comfort.
8 March – 6.30am
I get up early …