The X-Rite I1 Basic kit arrived in a box larger than I expected – about 6 x 15 x 24 inches. Inside was a ballistic nylon padded case about the size of a large student backpack. In the case, nestled in individual foam compartments, were the spectrophotometer itself (the I1 Pro), a weighted assembly to… [Read More]
X-Rite I1 Publisher/I1 Pro OOBE, part 1
This is a complicated out of box experience. So far, there are two boxes, and there may end up being a third. They arrived several weeks apart. A little background. For about 10 years I have been using a Gretag Macbeth SpectroScan/SpectroLino (the SpectroLino is a spectrophotometer; the SpectroScan is an XY table that automates… [Read More]
How to change e-mail providers
I change e-mail providers every two or three years, which is long enough, given my advancing years, for me to forget some things about the optimum way to do it. I’m writing myself some notes for next time. I bet I’m not alone in making these kinds of changes, so I’m posting this to give… [Read More]
Voicemail in the cloud
Our NEC voicemail system died a couple of weeks ago. It was going to be more than $1000 to fix it, so I decided to look at an alternative: a cloud-based voicemail system. AT&T is our local service provider, so I checked out their offering. It appeared to be pretty capable, and quite a step… [Read More]
Virtualization
For a dozen years, I’ve owned an Imacon Flextight scanner. It started life as a Precision II, and I bought the Imacon kit that supposedly upgraded it to a Precision III. The kit consisted of a firmware upgrade, a third-party FireWire to SCSI converter, and a stick-on rubber thingy with a “III” on it to… [Read More]
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