These days, it seems like every job opening is posted to the web, and without the proper tools, sifting through all of them can be extremely time consuming.  When I was job hunting, I came up with a great system that made finding the relevant jobs I cared about very easy, and all it required from me was checking my RSS feeds daily.  I’ve posted the system that I used since I’ve had a couple of people ask me about it – I hope it is helpful to anyone looking for a job (Note: I am not looking for one currently, I’ve just finally gotten around to writing up the methods I used)!

For the uninitiated, the Eye-Fi memory card is a SD memory card with wireless capabilities built in, allowing automated uploading of your images as you take them without requiring a connection to a computer. You simply walk to a hotspot or a wireless access point you have registered with and your images are uploaded to the web for you.

With that being said, here is the problem: (more…)

My Macbook Pro was purchased in spring of 2006. At the time, I decided to choose the one hard drive Apple offered that was 7200 RPM – specifically, the Seagate Momentus 7200.1 100GB drive (ST910021AS). Over the past year or so, I found myself constantly running out of disc space, and decided it was time to do something about it. I decided upon the Western Digital Scorpio drive – a 320GB drive that is 5400RPM (WD3200BEVT).

Upon first look at the new drive specifications I was a little worried, as I wasn’t sure the effect dropping down from a 7200RPM drive to a 5400RPM drive would have on my systems performance. (more…)