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Software

Clean erase & reset your iPhone 3G

November 1, 2009

Hello! Thanks for dropping by. Its great to see you. This is a personal blog of Benson John, a 29 year old interior designer / photographer / 3D visualizer / music & movie lover living in Melbourne, Australia. This blog is a personal and growing archive of links, rambles, rants, thoughts, ideas, anecdotes and random [...]

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Getting iGetter & Rapidshare to Work

June 6, 2009

Its been almost two years now that I’ve been enjoying my Rapidshare’s premium account and simply love it! Blazing speeds and no more waiting on seeders with torrents… its been sensational. I was previously using Speed Download as my dedicated download manager. All was well until I wanted to setup scheduled downloads… What a nightmare?! [...]

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Kitchen – New Zealand

April 14, 2009

After quite a long hiatus, I was recently asked by my brother to develop some pilot 3D visuals for a kitchen design job. This was more to exhibit the strengths of visuals with regards to time, level of detail and (most importantly) its ability to sell their kitchens. I started, as usual, with importing the [...]

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Metadata Fixer – TuneUp or Curator

January 23, 2009

Ever since I got my MacBook Pro, I have moved all my music to iTunes. All 50 GB of it. Before the shift , my sorting procedure, as all Windows users, would be organizing my music into appropriate folders. So I had about a few hundred folders called “AC~DC, DMB, A’Smith, Assorted” and so on [...]

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Wireless Time Machine Backups

December 15, 2008

I recently ran out of space on my 500 GB Western Digital My Book. I had been optimizing the data there and realized I could not trim down the data any more and HAD to get additional storage. I picked up a 1 TB Western Digital Elements device from DickSmiths, Chadstone for about A$199. After [...]

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Google Releases SketchUp 7

November 21, 2008

Google released the next version of its incredibly popular and 3D modelling software, SketchUp. Its an application that lets you draw 3D models of anything that catches your fancy… objects, furniture, your room, your house, your school or university. Absolutely anything. And ever since it first came in, the most appealing aspect of the software [...]

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SketchUp Resources

October 7, 2008

I just feel a desperate need to recommend an excellent Google SketchUp tutorial resource site called Go-2-School. A series of beautifully done podcasts, that you could subscribe to using iTunes, or watch online. The videos are in Quicktime format on their website. But you could also watch them on their YouTube channel as well. The [...]

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Fantastic Wordpress Plugin – Apture

September 27, 2008

I’ve spent almost all of today getting my mac network sorted. Setting up external storage, printers to be shared with both my Mac and Windows machines. And in my quest for some background on installing Bonjour for Windows, I came across Ben Metcalfe’s neat write up on “Bonjour on Windows and printer drivers“. Although superbly [...]

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Wordpress for the iPhone

July 25, 2008

Wow! Finally… In case you didn’t already know, Wordpress for the iPhone / iPod Touch is finally out at the App Store. Head on over for your free copy.

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Mac App of the Week – Organized

July 19, 2008

In my quest for Getting-Things-Organized and Done, I came across two fantastic tools for my mac over this weekend. One is a fabulous widget called Organized from iSlayer, and the other is the award winning timeline creating application called (you guessed it) Timeline.

Here’s the drift on Organized;
The widget gurus at iSlayer have come up another [...]

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Rotate Video with Quicktime Pro

June 25, 2008

Lili shot this lovely video of Nina dancing on her mobile. A cute little video. The only issue… Its been shot vertically. Being an ex-Windows user, I knew this was a pretty easy task using the Windows Movie Maker. But being a novice Mac user now, I wanted to know whether I could manage this [...]

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Ecto Move Aside… Blogo’s Here

June 14, 2008

Came across this nice, interesting article about a new desktop blogging application for the mac on the lovely MacApper website called Blogo. The fantastic review and the screenie’s I saw for the app made me take the leap of faith and grab a copy for myself… This is also another way of saying that it [...]

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