Archive: May 2007
- ⇒ How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop (link from May 20, 2007)
Ever wonder how a city that looks perfectly wholesome when you visit turns into a much more serious, grainy place when it's used as a movie set? This demonstrates a technique to do the same to your photos.
- ⇒ Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series trailer (link from May 29, 2007)
I'm generally a big fan of "how we got there" stories, even when I already know the story's eventual outcome. But I'm just not sure how much potential for dramatic tension there is in this premise.
- ⇒ Fix your broken Parallels Desktop (link from May 29, 2007)
I love Parallels Desktop, but it had become completely unusable as of late. I didn't know why, whether it was a bug of some kind or some "feature" that didn't like my Macbook Pro. I even wiped my VM and installed a new one, and while it worked fine for the first few boots, after that, it slowed down to the point of stalling my entire system, taking roughly twenty minutes to boot Windows.
It turns out this is the result of a problem with Windows Update. For whatever reason, it seems to be hitting users of Parallels Desktop particularly hard. The link above is to the fix, which worked for me.