thesixtyone.com (T61) is the latest addiction with not just me but the rest of the geeks in Hawaii. At last Thursday’s Manoa Geek meet I demo’d T61. It works as a game that you play with your friends. The best way I can describe T61 is the stock market meets music. Get points, spend points, make points. Check it out, and make sure to add me as a reference. My username of course JPhilipson. See you there!
Some highlight people and photos that I took of the evening.
Thanks Ryan for making and posting this video with the first day of Podcamp Hawaii ’08.
PodCamp Hawaii from hawaii on Vimeo.
As the official photographer for Podcamp Hawaii I get to take pics! 
Check the Flickr account for Podcamp Hawaii.
I was so happy when I first found out that there was going to be a brand new Apple store opening up on the strip in Waikiki and even more happy when I moved into town. Now that I live in town I am a literal 5 minute bike ride from the Apple store. I’m ecstatic about this store.
I live streamed the event and you can find the videos and photos below:
Here the priest blesses the opening of the Apple Store, this tradition is common in Hawaii.
In line waiting for the store to open:
Walk through of the New Apple store:
Sofie, aka macratlove, was the first official person to enter the store.
Sofie, first in line:
Ryan Ozawa, second in line after stalking last nights filming of the new LOST episode.
Sporting my Chi.mp hat:
Neenz, the brain behind Guy Kawasaki‘s latest creation Alltop.com:
Today I had the honor of meeting Matt Mullenweg (Check his blog) and got a chance to talk to him for about an hour and listen to him talk to others. He’s a cool guy definitely. I really learned a lot about his business model for wordpress.com and how he envisions his company and where he sees it going and where he wants it to go.
and me sporting my new wordpress stickers, because Carlos forgot to get me some and SXSW.
He talked about some cool things that are going to be put into place soon with wordpress. The coolest being monotone. Monotone is a wordpress theme specifically geared for photographers. You can bring in any photo into this theme and it will resize the photo to fit the layout, even if you change themes later the photo will be sized to fit the theme. Also, each photo is analyzed and examined so that the photo can be complimented by an impressive color scheme. Very nice. You can check out a demo of monotone here. He said that it may go live monday or tuesday (April 28th-29th) I can’t wait for this feature because as some of you know I have been put on Guy Kawasaki’s photography.alltop.com page and because I lack a "proper" photo blog they are linking to my flickr site. Yuck, so unprofessional eh? I can not tell you what an honor it is to have my photos up there with some of the worlds most influential photography bloggers out there. Seriously. I am freaking out, just below me is flickr‘s blog. Yeah I know.
What a fun day, I picked up a new camera. Kodak Stereo Photo thing. Here’s a pic of it:
Check out the specs here.
Also, I’ve added another photography set to my wedding section on my professional site (Philipsonphotography.com) You can check it out here, I have one more set to do and I’ll be done ’till the weddings this summer.
Well, it’s 1:30am and I have to be at church tomorrow morning then off to shoot models at the beach…
Often times I tell my friends they should get involved on twitter and I can never fully explain it and when I try they often look at me like I’m stupid. Alas, it has been explained!
First annual Unconferenz was pretty kick-butt… Luckily Ryan “The Legend” Ozawa made a video… so I don’t have to type as much He said it was “The Tale of Joe” because I’m the main character. Hehe.
I ended up teaching a session and introducing and explaining Aaron’s new website ask500.com. It was awesomeness (I know people tell me I shouldn’t make up words)
Enjoy!
Unconferenz from hawaii on Vimeo.
I have tons of hard drives. Right now, on my desk I have (2) 250GB Drives (1) 500GB Drive and a 160GB Drive. Roughly two months ago I plugged in my hard drive. Probably my most important hard drive because this was the hard drive that I backed up and relocated all my master photos too. I had wedding photos, birthdays, photos I cherished and loved. When I plugged in this hard drive I was shocked to find that all the data had vanished! It was all gone except for some abstract file. I thought the external Hard Drive enclosure had failed. (BTW NEVER! Buy Compusa’s homebrand External Hard Drive enclosures, I’ve gone through about 3 in a year and keep getting them replaced via warranty)
I realized that the hard drive was spinning up, it showed that the entire hard drive had free space. So it wasn’t broken, just that ALL my files had mysteriously deleted themselves.
I now have been trying to 2 months to recover the data off this hard drive. I’ve tried several programs both for mac and PC. The hard drive wasn’t broken the files were just gone. I original had the hard drive formatted FAT32 so it could work on both mac and pc which I didn’t realize until later that made the hard drive incredibly unstable.
Here are some programs that I tried:
Disk Warrior (Mac) – Probably a great program but will not help you recover deleted files
PC Inspector File Recovery (PC) – This free application probably works well with small hard drives or flash drives but was frustrating to work with with my hard drive. After leaving the program on for a week straight I only got to 32% recovery before it would crash. I tried several times but it kept crashing.
PC Inspector Smart Recovery (PC) – Same issues as above. Very unstable took what seemed an eternity.
Free Undelete (PC) - Probably works well with small devices but couldn’t handle major tasks.
Data Rescue II (Mac) – I am so happy with this program that I’m writing this blog article so you can understand my frustration and relief. This program is amazingly fast compared to the ones listed above and totally reliable! My problem with the software above is that when my hard drive would stop responding, which I have yet to figure out, the program would crash. However, with Data Rescue II I can save where I left off, reboot the hard drive and resume from where I left off…
As of this moment I have retrieved 45/250GB but am doing it so much faster that I have no worries
