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Disabling that Pesky Trackpad Rotate Feature in Photoshop CS4

jared — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:37:05 +0000

I use photoshop for various things, but, after my most recent Macbook Aluminum purchase and my upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS4, I’ve noticed that stupid compass showing up as I work. At first, I had no idea what it was, couldn’t find anything about it online- but, more importantly, I couldn’t find a way to disable it.

After tinkering for a little longer, I saw I could rotate the canvas using two fingers on the trackpad. Still, I hate this feature and it annoyed the hell out of me.

A few weeks later, I googled around and found an Adobe-issued plugin that disables the feature for trackpad users. Here is a link to the Adobe download page:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4337

Once downloaded, move the plugin to your Adobe Photoshop CS4 install directory plugins folder and restart photoshop. Works like a charm.

Booya. Damn, I hated that feature.

iPhone 3GS Poor Signal, Bad Reception

jared — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:30:18 +0000

I just purchased a 16 GB White iPhone 3GS and am having terrible signal issues. At first, I thought it was only my local tower, maybe even only my phone. After consulting a couple people around the office who recently purchased the iPhone 3GS, I realized that they are all having the same problem.

If anyone else is experiencing this, please comment and let me know if Apple/AT&T can do anything about this. This is becoming extremely frustrating. I am right next to a window and I’ve receive three voicemails from people trying to reach me this morning! This seems to be an intermittent problem.

Macbook Flickering Screen Backlight Warranty Repair

jared — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:22:46 +0000

Throughout the past two years, my 13″ Black Macbook has experienced four repairable issues:

Hard drive failure
Light to medium flickering backlight
Light flickering backlight
Cracked wrist support edge plastic

Each time I brought the computer in for these issues, the Genius (tech support) immediately smiled and admitted my machine for warranty-covered repair. Always renew your Apple Care. If you stumbled upon this blog and have not renewed it, consider it a lesson learned. Just go a few days before your computer’s one year birthday and spend the money to renew. Mine has paid for itself more than three times by now.

I-T Apostrophe S-A Hairflip, That’s what’s Up!

jared — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:02:18 +0000

That IS what’s up!

A brief summary of recent events and a quick overview of what’s to come…

jared — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:23:43 +0000

In short, a lot of things have happened since my last major update.

The most important of which is my new dog, Burger. Burger is a pure bred English Bulldog and is currently four months old. We frequent Fleet People’s Dog Park in Winter Park, Florida on weekends and occasional week days.

On a more professional note, Alex and I have been doing a lot of public speaking. We’ve spoken at the University of Florida, Florida International University, St. Marks Episcopal School, Edgewater High School and we’ll be participating keynote speakers at the 2008 Extreme Entrepreneur Tour Appalachian State University date.

We have also been posting a ton of advice blogs in the AKT Insider- check it out!