October 21, 2007
“Jiggle it” (or, HAL possesses my Mac)
Heh–I’m not sure why I feel compelled to pass this along, other than that it’s a nice counterpoint to the rigor & logic that we associate with computing.
Last night on a plane, I plugged my headphones into my MacBook Pro, only to see a weird red light issuing from the headphone port. The sense that HAL 9000 was now peering out of my Mac was compounded by my just having watched Sunshine, a flick featuring a sometimes disobedient flight computer. The really odd thing was that with this light pouring out, I lost access to my internal speakers. Headphones in: no prob; headphones out: sounds of silence (something something, neon god they made…).
The solution, I learned from a Mac forum, boils down to “jiggle it.” And, what do you know, after jabbing HAL in the eye repeatedly, I once again have working internal speakers. I feel like the Fonz, smacking the jukebox into shape. Anyway, it’s kind of funny that sometimes all this technology gets resolved with a good old-fashioned jiggle.
DVD menus in AE, crystals in Fireworks, more
The Adobe Design Center yells pull and lets some new content-skeet fly*:
* New Galleries:
* New Think Tank:
* New Tutorials:
- Creating calligraphic brushes in Illustrator by David Karlins & Bruce K. Hopkins
- Create an animated DVD menu transition using Encore and After Effects by Bob Donlon
- Redacting text and images in a PDF file by Donna Baker
- Adding cool frame borders to your photos by Scott Kelby
- Creating crystals with Fireworks by Thierry Lorey
Adobe training playas (non-hatas) Luanne Seymour and Jen deHaan are blogging, so check out their sites for fresh material. And as always, check out some of the 1000+ Adobe links on del.icio.us. Info on how to contribute links is here. [Via]
*Look, these intros don’t write themselves; maybe I need to devise a new template…
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