Memory

I have increased my memory, well my computer's memory. I have nicely installed an additional 1GB of memory for my Mac Book Pro. I compared the price of $210 for 1GB from Apple, or $109 from Canada Computers. Guess where I bought it from.

Installation was nice and easy. It only took two tries. The first attempt I did not follow the directions and apply pressure to ensure it was seated properly in the socket. After the second attempt I was presented to a OS X with an additional 1gb of memory.



Now I just need to put it through its paces. So time to do some managing of my photos in Lightroom.

Lightroom

I just checked the delivery status of my Lightroom software and noticed that Joy signed for it at 3pm today. I suppose I'll have to go home and get it installed.

Tracking summary
Current Status Shipment delivered.
Delivered on 2/26/2007 2:59 pm
Delivered to
Signed for by J LEEUWENBUR

More news to follow.

Router Update

This is a nerdy post, so anyone who isn't interested in computers and technology may freely ignore this post without worrying about missing anything exciting.

So tonight after a couple occurrences where my Linksys WTR54G router hung I decided to look into whether there were any new updates to its firmware. And as a matter of fact there was, so I switched over to the wired computer (the PC I am preparing for my aunt Betty) and downloaded the latest firmware. When doing this I went through Linksys' Canadian site, rather than the US, and discovered a discrepancy in the version numbers between the US & Canadian versions of the site. In trying to figure out if there was any differences between the two versions I recalled there being some alternate 3rd-party firmware for my router.

A quick search on Wikipedia yield some information and a few different options. After a short time humming and hawing I decided to give it a go and try out DD-WRT. After a check, and than a couple more double-checks, I did it...I upgraded my Linksys WRT54G with the latest--v23 sp2--DD-WRT software.

So far I have no complaints about the switch, in fact the interface provides a lot more status information and seems to have features which weren't found in the official firmware. One of the most notable being that you can run the router as network bridge (I paid a pretty penny for a stand-alone device which does this).

Adobe Lightroom

Well I just pre-ordered Adobe Lightroom (LR) a couple hours ago. About a week or two ago I started using the LR beta to manage my digital photo workflow--basically going from importing, to rating, labelling, adjusting, and archiving. The initial reason behind my adoption of LR over iPhoto was that LR allowed me to manage the organization of the photos on disk. But through using it I found it much easier to actually "process" my photos and also be able to find them afterwards.

I will leave the in-depth details behind the switch once I have the 1.0 release (should be mid-February).