Lately I’ve been getting headaches, and always have itchy, bloodshot eyes… somedays I get headaches so severe that I have to leave work and go home and sleep for 2-3 hours. During those crazy headaches I see flashing in my eyes…  I self diagnosed it as: Ocular Migraines

So after reading many blogs and medical sites I decided to try “Computer Glasses” I purchased a set of Gunnars model “Catalyst Edge”… I just received them and so far so good I’ll report on them after a few days.

*** Update: this is the second day using these glasses and my eyes feel much better. (I’ll keep on reporting to make sure its not a placebo).

*** Update: Its now been a week and my eyes feel really good. They are not itchy or super tired. No headaches either. Gunnar is coming out with a new line of lenses that aren’t yellow for graphic artists. I might have to exchange these because I work on images a lot.

*** Update: Its now been almost a month and I cant live without them… I use them at work all day and really can use my PC without them. I no longer use eye drops there’s no need for them.

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So you Rooted your Mytouch and now lost WIFI, Bluetooth and accelerometers.

This tiny post is to help people that just rooted their phone and lost WIFI, Bluetooth and accelerometers with your new custom image. I had the same thing happen to me and this is what I did. I tried many things and followed a guide from www.subterrain.net which seems to be down now.

This will install the base image and then a custom image from Cyanogen. The outcome is a very responsive phone that works great. I updated to the latest image with CM-Update (you can download it from Market).

There are a lot of people that blame this on hardware, but it seems its just software.

Here’s their Cyanogenmod guide:

[THIS WAS COPIED FROM THEM DIRECTLY, THIS WORKED FOR ME]
Cyanogenmod Installation Steps:

Download the HTC Android 1.6 base image: HERE

Download the latest CyanogenMod ROM for your device: HERE

Put all necessary files on your SD card Now install the actual OS of the phone. First you will install the legal Google apps, and then you will install CyanogenMod on top of those apps.

Turn your phone off.

Hold the Home button while booting to get to Recovery mode.

Select “wipe data/factory reset”

Select “apply any zip from sd”  choose “HTC_ADP_1.6_DRC83_rooted_base.zip”

Press home to confirm and let installation complete (‘Formatting Cache’ will stay at the bottom of the screen but once the menu reappears, the flashing is complete)

STOP – DO NOT REBOOT YOUR PHONE

Again, select “apply any zip from sd”) * choose “update-cm-4.2.3.1-signed.zip”

Press home to confirm and let installation complete

When this is complete, reboot your phone by pressing Home & Back or selecting that option. Wait a couple of minutes, and enjoy.

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I’ve always read eBooks on my PDA or Cellphone from early Palm devices,  Microsoft PDAs to the iPhone.  It doesn’t make sense to spend $300-400 to casually read eBooks on a device that can only do one thing. I’ve read dozens of eBooks on my PDA’s for years. There’s a iPhone app that makes thousands of books available to you FREE.

Stanza allows you to download free ebooks online and enjoy them wherever you are:

http://www.lexcycle.com/

I understand that if you read everyday, or if you want a device that can be used for school you would enjoy a big screen like the Kindles or other eBook readers . But for 95% of people their current PDA would be a better solution and wouldn’t create the waste and recycling headache of a separate device.

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Outlook by default can only open one time, if you try to open more windows they wont open. If you have multiple Outlook profiles and want to open two sessions of Outlook each with a different profile by default you cant.

Enter ExtraOutlook by Jason Geffner it allows you to open multiple Outlook sessions even with different profiles! Lets say you have a work account and dont want to login to Gmail on an internet browser you can create a new Outlook profile in control panel and then use ExtraOutlook to open multiple sessions. Truly a great little hack.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

Check my Essential free Software List

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I’m running Snow Leopard on both my MacBook and MacBook Pro and I have a warning for you guys…. some of my apps are not working right since the update.

• LightRoom is very un-stable it crashes all the time with my catalogs…
• Dreamweaver CS3 is crashing due to Snow Leopard.
• LaCie – LightScribe labeler does not work after the upgrade, it prints “black” CDs. This is the only labeler that I liked…

I ran the utility to “reorganize” the catalog but its still very unstable… this sucks since I rely on these applications heavily. I didnt see any gain from the upgrade.

*** I’ve been looking at reports of the web about Snow Leopard crashing Lightroom and other apps. If you’re a photographer and need these apps DONT upgrade to Snow Leopard!!!. Apple does it again, something is working great and an update that brings “no new features” changes the OS so much that kills apps you really need.

**** At this point I’m running a backup of my main system and will reinstall OSX 10.5 and try to restore from the backup.

***** Formated drive and installed Snow Leopard from scratch and its will FAILS, Lightroom works fine on my XP stations…. same catalogs. Note to self dont buy a Mac again

****** Fixed partially by re-installing OSX Leopard and formatting drive. YOU CANT RESTORE from Time Machine or it will back the bugs. Right-now I can run LightRoom other Adobe products. Other mentioned apps still dont work. After running Leopard I can tell you that there’s no reason to upgrade from 10.5 performance is the same even on 64b mode.

So it took two weeks to sort everything out and I had to manually install all my programs and find their serial numbers and registration keys, media, etc…

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