At the beginning of each year we like to take a moment to discuss the topic of studio backup. Use this checklist as a comparision for your own studio’s backup strategy.
Happy New Year! May all your data be safe in 2007.
Free Personalized Backup Strategy Session.
At Creativetechs one of our highest priorities is developing and maintaining safe, stable backup systems for creative teams.
As a service for Seattle-area creative teams, we are offering a complimentary 1-hour personalized backup strategy session with Creativetechs’ lead consultant Craig Swanson.
We’ve set aside 4 days in January, and have 16 9 open slots. If you manage a creative team, we encourage you to call and schedule a session. We’ll make sure it is a valuable use of your time.
Business Card Holiday Ornaments.
From all of us here at Creativetechs we wish you a safe and warm holiday season. And a prosperous new year.
For anyone looking for one last paper-folding project in 2006, we invite you to pull out an old box of business cards and visit HXA7241 for a step-by-step recipe to create your own business card polyhedra.
Storage and Backup Solutions For Your Photography
From Digg: Photographer Chase Jarvis shares a rare look into a high-end photo studio’s backup protocol. This post is directed at photographers, videographers, or creative studios and is NOT for the weak of heart. He outlines a robust solution that protects a huge amount of data. (Chase shot 35,000 pictures for one job last month.)
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Convert your old vinyl records to CD’s or MP3’s.
Here is an inexpensive turntable that lets you easily record your old vinyl record collection to CD or MP3. The turntable comes bundled with Audacity, a recording application that works with both PCs and Macs. Although the turntable can work with any software that supports USB audio input (such as Apple’s GarageBand). Link: Ion iTTUSB […]
Photoshop CS3 Beta 46% faster than CS2!
Over the weekend we ran the Photoshop CS3 beta through a series of speed benchmarks. The initial results have been encouraging. Overall we are seeing speed increases of 40% to 55% in most Photoshop features compared to Photoshop CS2 on the same Mac Pro system.
Photoshop CS3 Beta Released!
We don’t normally discuss beta software in this tips newsletter. However we’re making an exception here. Last Friday, Adobe released a downloadable beta of Photoshop CS3.
Garbled Fonts Troubleshooting Guide.
Garbled fonts in Entourage. Corrupt fonts in Safari. Weird symbol fonts in Apple Mail. How frustrating!
Click on any of jumbled font examples that you might be experiencing. We’ve documented a fix for each font problem on a separate post in our troubleshooting blog.
Garbled Font Fix: Corrupt Font Cache
This post includes a fix for one source of garbled fonts in Mac OS X. For other fixes check out our special Garbled Fonts Troubleshooting Guide.
The Problem: Safari, Entourage or other applications show unfamiliar characters overlapping each other. If you’re seeing garbled text similar to our example above, it is most likely caused by a corrupt font cache file.
Garbled Font Fix: Helvetica Fractions
This post includes a fix for one source of garbled fonts in Mac OS X. For other fixes check out our special Garbled Fonts Troubleshooting Guide. The Problem: If you have the Helvetica Fractions font installed, text in some applications may appear as overlapping numbers and symbols. This font substitution problem can effect many Mac […]
