RadTech Products • I-Sight • Ear-Mounted LED Light

Fully buzzword compliant gadget!

“Ear-Mounted, super-bright LED personal illuminator. Up to one mile visibility – weighs just 18 grams! … Overdriven, super-bright Nichea LED module features a parabolic reflector and precision focusing lens … reversible and adjustible ear loop allows use with or without glasses on left or right ears … useable runtime of over 36 hours … no distracting side flare. Easily lights anything and everything you look at … Works under water includes batteries!”

Now I know what i’ll get blinded by the next time I go camping.. it’s not just those head mounted lamps anymore! *sigh*

I want a red one!

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RadTech Products – I-Sight – Ear-Mounted LED Light

CBC interview with School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa!

Update: All In A Day’s archives have now been updated, so you can listen to the interview there as well.

Khalia Scott and Michael Tardioli are founders, directors and teachers at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa. They held a great Open House yesterday, and this afternoon they were interviewed on CBC Radio’s All In A Day.

Until the CBC updates their archives of the show, you can listen to it here: SPAO Interview as an MP3.

If you are looking for more details than what is in the interview, the SPAO site will be launching in November. Meanwhile you can email info@spao.ca.

Full Disclosure: SPAO is a client of mine. I was responsible for getting their Macs, printing, scanning and network gear purchased and installed.

Looking for Disk Image Automator Actions!

Does anyone know of an Automator action, or Big Cat script, that when you right click on a mounted Disk Image, will unmount it and *delete* the original image.

Why? Well.. My download folder is huge.. and I need a faster way to look into a mounted disk image, test out whatever is in there and then delete it. If I like the application, or whatever it is, I will copy it to a more permanent location, and still need to delete the original!!!

If no such thing exists I’ll cobble one together, which should not be too hard seeing as I can start with Laine Lee’s work: Show Disk Image File of Selected Volume

MacInTouch: updating then resetting a Mac for an Out of the Box experience

I have done exactly what Barry would like to do, and it is worth it for the OOB experience!

In my case all I did was install all the Apple updates and the software they had bought.

Once you are ready to reset the Mac; open the Terminal and delete the AppleSetupDone file, which will cause the Apple Setup Assistant to run on the next boot.

Here’s the detailed version:

loki:~$ cd /private/var/db/
loki:/private/var/db$ ls -la .AppleSetupDone 
--w----r--   1 root  wheel  0 Jul 16  2004 .AppleSetupDone
loki:/private/var/db$sudo rm .AppleSetupDone
Password:

Translation to English for those of you still learning UNIX:
‘change directory’ to /private/var/db/
‘list in long format and show files and folders whose name starts with a dot or double dot’
‘superuser do’ ‘remove’ .AppleSetupDone
then put in your password to approve the action.

All done!

MacInTouch: timely news and tips about the Apple Macintosh
[Barry Brown]
I am thinking of getting a Mac mini for a friend as a gift. I’d like to to install and configure some third-party apps and the latest updates before giving it away. That’s easy enough. But I also want the out-of-box experience for the recipient to be the same as if the mini was new: it goes through the Welcome movie, account setup, and network setup. How can I “reset” the Mac so it removes all the accounts and walks the new user through the setup process when it’s turned on again?