Month: December 2013

How to Clone Your Raspberry Pi SD Cards With Windows

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The Raspberry Pi runs from an operating system stored on a Secure Digital (SD) card and many different operating systems may be employed. Storage is relatively inexpensive, can be created (flashed), recreated, written to and overwritten with ease.

On the one hand, this is an advantage of the Pi. On the other, the experimental nature of the Pi means more time flashing SD cards. This tutorial shows you how to clone any Raspberry Pi SD card which is particularly useful when you have your OS set up just as you want it.

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How to Create a Custom Photo Book Using iPhoto

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Photography, for me, began with a secondhand Zenit camera and a roll of stuff called film that had to be developed before I could see the image I’d just framed. Fast-forward to recent history and now photographs are captured digitally and viewed instantaneously.

Perhaps it’s the ease with which I can rattle off hundreds, if not thousands, of photos that means I rarely look at them after I’ve taken them. In this tutorial I will show you how to produce a custom book highlighting the best of your photography.

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The Slacker’s Guide to Christmas Card List Nirvana

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If you’re anything like me then maintaining a Christmas card list is a chore, not a pleasure, that rears its ugly head every December … and I never learn from it. Until now.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an easy way to ensure that – without fail – you remember to send cards to all of the people on your Christmas card list.

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Master Desktop Images in OS X Mavericks

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Pay more than fleeting attention to any Apple Mac advertising and you can not help but be struck by the incredible and engaging photography used to show off the capabilities of the screens of iMacs and MacBooks.

In this tutorial, I’ll uncover some breathtaking hidden photography – that is already on your Mac – and show you how to set this as your Desktop.

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Apple’s Thunderbolt Display Explored and Explained

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Originally announced in July 2011, but not shipping until the September, Apple’s Thunderbolt Display is a high-specced external 27″ display for Thunderbolt-equipped Macs.

At some £899 in the UK ($999 in the USA), this Apple accessory does not come cheap, but it is perhaps better equipped than you realised. Here, Apple’s Thunderbolt Display is explored and explained.

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