April 18, 2007

My latest, favorite podcast - This American Life

Filed under: Cool Sites — Jeffito @ 8:38 pm

I have had people mention this radio show to me for a long time. And I finally started downloading it a few weeks ago. I also noticed that they they have just launched a TV show as well. It plays on “The Movie Network” here in Canada. I would try to describe the show, but their “about us” page does a better job than I ever could:

“The radio and TV shows follow the same format. There’s a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It’s mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There’s lots more to the show, but, like we said, it’s sort of hard to describe.”

April 9, 2007

Canon PowerShot S45 and Windows Vista

Filed under: Useful Tech Tips — Jeffito @ 9:40 pm

250px-Canon_PowerShot_S45I discovered after I installed vista that Canon had not yet provided any vista drivers for the Canon PowerShot S45. I tried using a few other programs and nothing seemed to work to get my images off the camera. Luckily I have other laptops with XP and I have always just used these XP machines to get my images, but today I was stuck at home with just my vista laptop.

I was about to give up when I thought of something….. my iPod. I had bought an ipod camera connector to get my images off my camera when I am traveling. So I just hooked it up and transferred the pictures from the S45 to the iPod. I then plugged my iPod into my Windows Vista Laptop, opened windows explorer and then surfed to the DCIM folder on my iPod and the images were there for me to move to my hard drive… and eventually to Flickr.

Not a solution for everyone…. but it saved me from spending $40 on a USB flash card reader.