IOS:
Plug the iPhone into the Mac using USB. This will charge it while the phone offers tethered service. (Bluetooth should also work but will drain the battery quickly).
Turn on Personal Hotspot
On the Mac
System Preferences>Sharing>Internet Sharing
Share your connection from : iPhone USB
To Computers Using: Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi Options …
- Provide a network Name: “My Tethered Network”
- Select a Channel: something unique such as 36 is better than default 11
- Security: WPA2 Personal
- Password: something 13 characters long exactly and same again in Confirm Password.
Click “On” for Internet Sharing –
On other devices you should now see the “My Tethered Network” and be able to connect from other devices.
Make sure to set your sleep appropriately on the Mac, otherwise it may go to sleep mid session.
One of the problems with judging an image on the monitor is that most monitors are set too bright. This is especially critical if you want to print the image based on what you see on the monitor. When the monitor is too bright, it makes the images look brighter and more contrasty then they really are. When printed, these images viewed on an overly bright monitor tend to look dark or dull and washed out. To fix this (calibrate your monitor using a professional calibration device ) or if thats not an option due to cost, then set the brightness of your monitor as per the following instructions:
Display the link below on your monitor and adjust the brightness of the monitor until you can view all of the different brightness levels on the second row. You should adjust the monitor brightness (probably turning it down) until you can see differences in each box (especially the 100 box and 95, as well as the 5 and 0) Both ends of the brightness scale must be visible at the same time.
Also check the second from the bottom row (white scale from 15% grey to totally white) and the bottom row (100% black to 85% black). These rows can assist with fine tuning. Unless you have a professional quality monitor, you will not be able to see differences in the 100-95 range.
View brightness chart:
https://www.jeffgardner.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Monitor-Brightness.tif
Some older monitors may require contrast to be adjusted as well.
chflags nohidden ~/Library
My thanks to: http://macperformanceguide.com/SettingUp-UnhideLibrary.html
To turn this on in IOS6: Settings > About > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking
Be aware the default is “off”.
www.jeffgardner.ca has been updated to have a more modern look and now accomodates display on iOS devices. Since Apple is dropping support for their MobileMe photo album service, I have re-designed the photo album from scratch and host it now on my site. I also sorted out all of my images. Lots more to come for the photos over the next little while.
The new site has been produced using CSS3 and HTML5 without using Flash. Lots of hard work went into it, hopefully it has a good foundation for future growth and should last a few years, then again with the speed things are changing, who knows.
Let me know if you have any suggestions…
Here is a link to a 40k word document that describes the current thinking around a draft document to assess and discuss the qualities of an image. Although specific to photographs, it could probably be used for most two dimensional artwork.
Dec 15 2011 – keep getting error message “Error Creating Profile” (as if that would help anyone). Called support, got folks that could barely talk. “Good bye” was not in their vocabulary.
Asked to send a Measurement file to then which I did. Was told I would get a call by next monday.
We will see.
Tuesday Dec 20: Wonderful news – I received a reply from x-rite – Oh wait – its a spam Christmas card! Something I can more time unsubscribing from – sure made my day.
We are touring the Marlborough wine country – at the north end of the South Island. NZ’s famous for its ‘young’ Sauvignon Blanc and now we are discovering that although they are still relatively new to wine making, they are also producing some quite fine Chardonnays and older ‘oaked’ Sauvignon Blanc. One of our favorite vineyards has been Cloudy Bay, which is very large, and today we discovered Seresin – a very small organic vineyard, both have wines available in Ont. We then went off to a green mussel farm – a boat tour of the Marlborough sounds that included a glass of wine and fresh steamed mussels eaten with the fingers right in the bay where they are harvested. Weather continues to be wonderful, sunny overhead with clouds at the horizon and turquoise waters.
Wed Feb 23 – Martinborough NZ – North Island
We arrived at our hotel yesterday afternoon to discover the small town quite distressed by the earthquake in Christchurch several hundred km to our south.
We are currently near the south end of the North Island. Christchurch is somewhat near the north end of the South Island, and really not that far away, however we did not feel the earthquake. Needless to say we have been affected by how much this event has had on a small country of 4 million. Most people here seem really deeply impacted.
From the press here, we have gathered that Christchurch is not the place to be and they will need a lot more time to fix things up. I assume the press there has all the details so I won’t elaborate – but the City does seem to be very heavily damaged. Had the quake happened a few weeks later, we would have been right in heavy damage zone, since we planned on staying directly across from the church that was so heavily damaged.
People here are quite kind; yet they are stoic and life goes on.
We will be proceeding south to Wellington, crossing over to the South Island in a few days, going past Christchurch which is on the east side of the island while we plan to head down the west side. So, initially we will not be directly impacted by the quake but Christchurch was our intended departure point back to Auckland in mid March so likely will need to make changes as the trip progresses.
As for our vacation, the country is beautiful and we are enjoying it a lot. Chris and I have both caught colds and that has slowed us down a bit. Perhaps we are just getting on, but today – after a wine tour and a tour of olive groves, we just read the papers and stayed in our room which is really quite lovely, as is the town of Marinborough.
The next week will be spent in the wine districts – soaking up the various Sauvignon blanc which have been our NZ wines of choice. The weather continues to be good, the windows of our hotel are all open and we have a gentle warm breeze and we are in a farming valley surrounded by brown and green mountains. The town is small and sleepy and a dog barks in the distance.
I have hit the 2000 mark on photo shots and have been slowed down by the weight of the equipment, my cold and the fact that we are moving a lot every other day or so. Since this is not a photo trip, a lot of shots have passed us by while we just enjoyed looking the country side – and that’s ok.
Hope all is well with everyone back home
Jeff and Chris
Weather in New Zealand continues to be fabulous – mid 20s with refreshing sea breezes, bright days with cloud cover off in the distance, but sunny overhead.
We are ‘tramping’ (day hiking) the North island, making our way from Aukland to the ‘Northland’ (Paihia) followed by a return to Aukland and a swing around the Coromandel Peninsula and then into the central thermal area around Rotorua. Next we are off to the east coast at Napier, an art deco town, and the wine region of Martinborough before visiting the capital of Wellington and heading to the South Island for a trip down the west coast. Nothing eventful to report so far.
The people are friendly, but its like living in a time bubble – going back to the 50s. Most things are more expensive down here, with NZ wines being priced almost the same as at the LCBO. We found a rather larger wine store yesterday and did a bit of a tasting and stocked up.
Accommodation has varied a lot. The first 3 places were quite nice – well above average fully self-contained suites including a kitchen, one very high end, all with laundry facilities. Then we explored the other end of the spectrum with a motel that catered to bus loads of oriental tourists and facilities reminiscent of the Timmins Holiday Inn circa. 1950.
The past couple of days we have been travelling through the North Island’s “thermal area” at Rotorua and Taupo: geysers, bubbling, mud pool, brightly colored lakes with a gentle whiff of sulphur in the air (sometimes not so gentle).
The scenery is magnificent, especially the misty mountain ranges over the ocean (yes it really is Lord of the Rings country) and also the many varieties of trees and ferns. The giant kauri trees (picture with Chris standing in front of one) are a sight to behold and the kauri museum was fascinating: it included single, unknotted slabs of kauri wood 20’ wide and 50’ long – plus the chain saws and milling equipment needed to handle such wood. We are slowly learning the names of the native and introduced birdlife: pukakos, fantails, black swans etc. There are lots of cattle but, so far, surprisingly few sheep.
Internet is not hard to find, but its expensive, as is many things here and forget trying to keep something like an iPhone happy, download limits are very small. Quality of service is great but you do pay for it.
Will post again in a week or sooner.
Jeff and Chris