Monthly Archives: November 2005

How do I repair iPhoto

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I recently saved my iPhoto library onto my iPod, and i didn’t know if it was going to work or not. But it did work and i was very happy. I did not want to re-do all my galleries cause i have a few thousand photos now. But after the move iPhoto would crash on me after about two minutes. Sometimes it would last longer, but i never really used iPhoto for a long period of time.

I just recently got fed up with it and i did some research about how i could speed up iPhoto. Or even stop making iPhoto crash. I only have two tips on how to speed up iPhoto, there are more tips than this. But these two tips worked perfectly for me.

1. Make sure to make a backup copy of your iPhoto Library, which is included in your home directory (example ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/)

2. If you are running iPhoto 4, Hold down the Shift and Option keys on the keyboard. If you are running iPhoto 5, Hold down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard.

3. Open up iPhoto while doing one of the above commands, depending on your version of iPhoto.

4. Keep holding the keys until either the library is being rebuilt, or you get this dialog.

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5. I ran all the options and it took about two hours to do for a few thousand pictures. I don’t really know, i walked away as it did it.

Doing this made iPhoto run better and it never crashed after it. Well i have been using it for three days now and i havn’t had a single problem with it.

Links: Apple Knowledge Base Article about rebuilding the iPhoto database

Buy Nothing Day

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This is a little late, i should have given more time before i posted this the day of. But today is Buy Nothing Day! From the website directly:

Buy Nothing Day is here!

For 24 hours, millions of people around the world do not participate — in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that’s become our culture. We pause. We make a small choice not to shop. We shrink our footprint and gain some calm. Together we say: enough is enough. And we help build this movement to rethink our unsustainable course.

So do your job as an adbuster today and make sure to buy nothing! Check out More info at there webpage, Adbusters / Buy Nothing Day. And if you want to see some local BND events in your city, join a local Jammer Group.

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San Francisco 2005

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Dim Mak in Latimes

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I grabbed last thursdays Calender Live section to take to the shitter. Just for a little reading while i take the worst dump of my life. I think that when you get older the shits get worse and worse. I had never had a problem with smell or anything, but this was the first time in my life where it was a problem. But i open it up and turn the page and there is an article about Dim Mak.

Dim Mak (Steve Aoki) has a following, I follow him wherever he plays. I won’t admit this in person, but i will here. I do enjoy the music that he plays, He plays real random music to M.I.A. to anything. I also do enjoy dancing to his music, I won’t admit this in person either. Dim Mak also knows the secret to playing good dance music, Get the girls booty shaking. I know it seems like an easy thing to accomplish, but its hard to get the girls booty shaking for a couple of hours. I have heard Dim Mak put on some great songs that nobody will dance to and then he will pull that song and put on the new Kanye West track, booty shaking.

I do like going to the Dim Mak parties, not because i know people there, but because i know that the people there like the same things that i do. The people that go there have the same interests. Well some of us at least.

Well if your in Los Angeles and have nothing else to do on a Tuesday night check out Dim Maks event at Cinespace. On thursdays nights is Loose Tooth at Josephs. And be sure to read the interview with Steve Aoki. It is a well worth the time read to find out about the man behind the decks and the label.