hint, hint, nudge, nudge – Mother’s day is just around the corner! Today is Apple’s last recommended day for express shipping of an iPhoto book. They even have a promo code to save you 10%. Although I got a notification in email from the Apple store, I’ll send you to Tuaw site for additional info.
Author: JT
Just a quick tip – I noticed lately that whenever I fire up a VM on my machine, ALL four processors would shoot up to 90+% utilization. In addition, the VM (typically running Vista) would take a good 10-15 minutes to load (okay, a bit of an exaggeration – but it took forever.) 
Took me a couple of minutes to figure out that it was my anti-virus software that was causing the issue.
As I mentioned before in a previous post, I’ve installed ClamXav software on my Macs because of the rising popularity of Macs (this begets challenges to hackers which begets to virus being written for OSX, etc. — or is that just my paranoia?) The program installs easily enough and updates itself regularly etc.
If you are using ClamXav Sentry and VMWare, you MUST exclude any VM images from being scanned! Better yet, make sure that you configure your ClamXav Sentry to ignore scanning the directory in which you keep your VM images. This will dramatically increase the start time of any VM. If you opt for the extension method of exclusion, VMs have an extension of .vmwarevm .
-JT
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New Printer – a Color Laser
The prices on color laser printers are finally coming down in price. After some Stumbling around the other day, I encountered a review of the Brother HL-4070CDW on MacWorld’s site that was quite favorable. I’ve loved my Brother HL-2040N (no longer made) since the day I brought it home a few years ago. It was a simple black and white laser – but with the number of projects my kids have for school, this was a godsend. I figured that I had such a great experience, I’d gamble again on another Brother product.
If you are like me, you probably spend a ton of money every year on 3rd technical 
publications/reference manuals. I’ve spent many years as a software consultant and had to keep on top of the latest and greatest technologies and methodologies. I easily spent hundreds of dollars every month on books and reference manuals. Considering that each book cost $40-$60 – it’s easy to spend thousands per year. This is even with access to the Internet and Google.
The costs of the books are easily justified when you look at your account receivables or you took that next step on the corporate ladder. Some of these books are worth their weight in GOLD. Of course, they also feel that way when you are lugging them around on your daily commute, or when your wife/girlfriend/significant other complains that the bookshelves are bowing because of the number of the books and it’s time to have a garage sale. Oh yeah.. now you have to deal with who’s going to buy that Foxpro for Dummies book now?
O’Reilly’s Safari Online service to the rescue. I’ve been using this service for at least two years and it has COMPLETELY replace all my reference book purchases.
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Digital Photography Books
I’m very much into digital photography lately and I’ve been spending most of my time off devouring as much as I can about the subject. However, I’m in no way can be considered the next Ansel Adams. There is so much to learn to consistently take good shots with your camera. Then there is all the post-processing that one can do to edit their pictures.
I did encounter a couple of books mentioned by one of my new favorite sites Lightroom Killer Tips.