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The new home to Cj Consulting.

Welcome to the new home of the DigiBlog. The previous blog has been hosted by SquareSpace, which cost me $8 a month. I have decided to cancel my SquareSpace service and go for a free option = Blogger.

I am hoping to begin posting more (if i had a penny every time i said that, i'd be rich).

A little update about me:

I am a graphic designer living in southern Idaho. I work for a regional retail company -  King's Discount Stores. I am 50% of the advertising department. I work with others in the company to develop and design banners, poster, signs, and the ads.

I love my Job.

I do some freelance graphics work, but only for a few clients.

I will be in Vegas for PhososhopWorld in September.

This is the new DigiBlog.

I'm Back! after not blogging for a month or two

Here is some updates....

• Microsoft still is not better than Apple
• Google has ventured into the mobile phone service with the launch of the Nexus One.
• Google and other major companies were hacked by suspected chinese govenment/
• Apple is still rumored to intro a multi-touch tablet
• Microsoft Windows 7 is "what Vista should have been"
• CES 2010 was a huge success, although people felt that there was a big monkey in the room with the rumored Apple Tablet
• Apple announces the January 26th Media Event.

and now you are updated.

Problem: OWC On-The-Go Pro

About a month ago I purchased the OWC Mercury on the Go 320GB Hard Drive and I am now using it for my business file storage. I have all the tutorials that I make, Project files that include InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop files along with my Lightroom catalog and my website files and resources.

My initial reaction was that it looks cool and modern but it created a problem when restarting my computer. The first time that I had noticed the problem was when I was installing some updates. Software updater wanted to restart so I said ok and the installation process began as it shut down.

When the computer restarted it took 8x as long after the chime to display the Apple Logo, about 60-90 seconds. I originally thought that it was a fluke and that it would not happen again, but it did! So I shut it down and turned off the OWC Drive and then started the Mac back up. took the normal amount of time. The drive being hooked up to the computer was causing the computer to take longer to reboot.

I have 4 other external Western Digital Studio and Studio II drives and have had no problems with them. Is this just a fluke in the drive or is it a normal thing with OWC drives. If any one can help, please leave a comment.

New Tutorial - PS Color Change

Changing colors in an Image from Colby Otte on Vimeo.

This video show how to change a specific color in an image using an adjustment layer.

New Tutorial - PS White background removal

Removing a white background from an image from Colby Otte on Vimeo.

This video demonstrates a way of removing a white background from an image.

Apple Announces new iMac and MacBook and more!

On Tuesday Apple released it's new line of iMacs and Macbooks along with baroius other updates.

Included in the updates were a new 21.5 and 27 inch iMac. the new iMacs can have up to 2TB of hard drive space and 16GB of Memory. Apple is putting a Mac Pro Processor in a consumer level iMac. The recently released Intel i7 and i5 processors will be available in the 27" iMac in November. This means that some professionals can buy and iMac for a lesser cost and get the same processor that is in the Mac Pro.

The New iMac has a few new additions like a new SD card slot below the SuperDrive slot on the right side. The back of the previous generation of the iMac was plastic, but the new iMac has all aluminum enclosure. A deleted feature is the FireWire 400 port on the back. the port is now replaced with one FireWire 800 port

Other imropvement are the updated Mac mini to now include Snow Leopard server with 2 hard drives. and a new aluminum remote to replace the old white plastic remote.