I would try removing Itunes and then installing it again and when you have a fresh copy of 7.6 installed and a reboot of your computer do the following.
1. Turn iPod Touch OFF completely.
2. Plug iPod Touch into PC/MAC while still off.
3. Turn iPod touch on, then IMMEDIATELY do the following steps
4. Hold the 'Home button' and 'sleep/wake' button together for atleast 5 seconds.
5. The Apple logo will appear
6. When this happens release the 'sleep/wake' button BUT KEEP HOLD OF 'HOME' BUTTON
7. Your iPod will reboot (Apple logo)
6. iTunes will recognise iPod in 'Recovery mode'
8. You will be able to 'restore' your iPod Touch now.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
一生只有兩天
1985年，賈伯斯被自己創立的蘋果公司掃地出門！可以想像當時的打擊有多大，
但是賈伯斯只鬱卒了一下子，很快他就振作起來了。
有一天他在一所大學演講，「她」坐在聽眾席聆聽，賈伯斯被剎到了。
活動一結束，賈伯斯就去跟「她」聊天，拿到了電話號碼。
原本想開口約「她」當天晚上一起吃晚餐，可是又正好有個會議要開，只好把快要說出口的話，吞了回去。
當賈伯斯準備去開車離開時，他問了自己一個「老問題」，這是他每天早上面對鏡子問自己的一個問題 -
「如果今天是我這輩子的最後一天，我今天要做些什麼？」.......
答案出來了，賈伯斯馬上跑回去演講廳找「她」，約去共進晚餐。
這位「她」- Laurene Powell寶兒 - 現在就是賈伯斯的老婆。
引述賈伯斯的一段話：「提醒自己快死了，是我在人生中面臨重大決定時，所用過最重要的方法。
因為幾乎每件事－所有外界期望、所有的名聲、所有對困窘或失敗的恐懼－在面對死亡時，都消失了，
只有最真實重要的東西才會留下。」
賈伯斯又補充說：「提醒自己快死了，是我所知避免掉入畏懼失去的陷阱裡最好的方法。
人生不帶來、死不帶去，沒理由不能順心而為。」
我們也靜下心來，問自己「最後一天」這個問題 -
「如果今天是我這輩子的最後一天，我今天要做些什麼？」
「第一天」又是什麼呢？
-當「第一天」入大學讀書，我們對學校、課本、同學充滿好奇心
-當「第一天」進公司上班，我們謙虛，願意學習，有衝勁
-當「第一天」約會，我們小鹿亂撞，珍惜相處的每一刻
-當「第一天」晉升職等，新官上任三把火，有滿腹雄心壯志，要有所作為
回想我們做任何事的「第一天」，都是我們最有活力的一天。
時光不能倒流，但態度可以回轉。一生只要兩天，就擁有了每一天。
用「最後一天」的心情去選擇下一步，我們會更有方向；
用「第一天」的態度去做每一件事，我們會更有活力，更能成功。
Monday, September 12, 2011
听郭妈妈的话创商业神话 不让外人看不起华人
说到糖王，人们自然会想到郭鹤年，但其实，郭鹤年并不喜欢“糖王”这个称呼，并认为这是假的名气，反观，他透露自己喜欢酒店，因为酒店业不同其它行业，这为服务业，靠的是一般职员打拼，因此，他也从中体会到最大的责任，就是好好照顾自己的员工。
郭鹤年日前接受中国央视《对话》，从中带出其打拼事业的心路历程，打造商业帝国背后的故事。节目开始时主持人问了一句，怎么说得一口流利华语，郭氏归功母亲：“是先母家教的影响，他教我们不要忘本。”
从郭氏谈话当中，了解母亲的一言一语，对其商业及生活上的影响。郭鹤年表示，妈妈在生时时常劝告他，做生意要跑道德的路，赚的钱不要自己崇拜物质。“我记得当时是妈妈80多岁生日，我买了一部马赛迪送给妈妈，她老人家一看脸色一变，说买一台小日本车就行了，叫我把车退回。”
他说，如果妈妈还在，肯定会不断提醒他，做人要谦虚，要继续帮助穷人。
任何生意都有风险 “怕，就永远当穷人”
26岁创办郭氏企业，40岁成为亚洲糖王，曾经在高峰时期控制全球20分之1的砂糖，回忆创业过程，郭鹤年说，当时做了决定，将全部资金投入炼糖业，当时大马也没有其他人经营此行业。“市场最容易的行业不是化工、石油化工，这些有时有人要，有时没人要，那时也未进入IT时代，最简单，最聪明的方式就是，便宜的原糖就可发财。”
他形容，经营糖业大部份时候顺利，惟一次在1963年，基于胆量太大，把现货抓了20吨，也到期货市场注资，原以为市场会涨，谁知反降，资力不足会因此破产，惟，一场事故帮了他。
"当时台风打到古巴，古巴砂糖业大破坏，国际糖价一直高涨，好像老天要帮我一样。"
他提及，做生意90％靠自己的勤奋和智慧，不断收集讯息，研究供求、生产、消费、运输等，看准时机，要快。
他提及，做每一种生意都有危险，怕就走开，如果有更好机会不是问题，可把握第二次，但如果每一次胆量太小，永远是穷人。
同时从事酒店、地产、船务、传媒等行业的郭鹤年披露，无论什么事业，要多做几种，因为有连带关系。
走入中国开拓奇迹 致使香格里拉遍全球
郭鹤年与中国关系密切，也在紧要关头给予该国协助！
回想早前，有2名外资部中国官员寻求郭鹤年协助，当时有关官员提及国家缺糖和缺钱，需要30万吨砂糖，而在郭鹤年协助下，首次与没做过生意的巴西经商，成功协助中国买到了30万吨的糖。
此外，在1984年，郭鹤年于北京长安街耗资5亿美元建造国家贸易中心，这为当时外资在中国投资最大项目。“另外，当时我的伙伴林楷告诉我，建国门外有一大块地项目，当时有美国和日本集团竞争，我想今天中国还要依靠这些国家帮助？我们要争志气，不要给外面的人看不起我们华人，我当时刚好有一笔一亿美元现金在香港，因此拿来投资。”当时亚运会，郭鹤年也捐献了北京200万美元。
另一方面，郭鹤年提及，早期到中国，发现该处住宿条件太差，要如何吸引国际游客，加上他看好未来中国旅游业市场，因为该处拥有许多历史文物和古迹，因此在80年代于杭州改建第一家香格里拉酒店。
目前，全球共有72家香格里拉酒店，中国有34家，全球兴建当中有45家，单是中国就有28家。
郭鹤年名言
~ 做生意要有一种胆量，如果每次胆量都太小，永远是穷人。
~ 做生意要有胆量，但胆量要对生意，不要用胆量对人。
~ 做生意90％靠自己勤奋和智慧，要不断收集讯息等，看准时机要快。
~ 我们要争志气，不要给外面的人(外国)看不起我们华人。
~ 比我聪明的人多，但一些聪明的人夜生活比较乱，第二天他们可能在桌上睡着而我没，所以我的马儿就跑得比较快。
~ 无论什么事业要多做几种，因为这些都有连带关系。
~ 我本人不爱钱，但是我很想每年公司结帐都有钱赚，给同事花红。
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Urban Landscape Photography Tips
Urban Landscape Photography Tips
In it they interviewed an urban landscape photographer (Mark Bury) and asked him for his top 5 tips on his craft. I thought I’d share them here.
The headings are his the descriptions are my paraphrases of his tips combined with some of my own thoughts.:
1. Early Bird Catches the Worm – First thing in the morning is one of Mark’s favorite times to shoot for a number of reasons including that the light is diffused and the ’sky acts like a giant filter’. I’ve done a little urban photography too and also find that early morning shots can be great for a two other reasons too:
- Clean Streets - Most street cleaning happens over night and the early morning often finds urban scenes with less litter to clutter your shots.
- People Free Shots - Shots around dawn have less likelihood of being cluttered by people. It’s amazing who lonely a city can look if you’re able to get a people free shot.
- Different Activity – Of course you might want people in some of your shots – It’s amazing how an urban area can change depending upon who is around. While at 9 am you’ll get a peak hour feel to your shots and on the weekend at midday you might get a crowd of shoppers – in the wee hours of the morning there’s a whole different group of people wandering the streets can give your shots a whole new focal point.
2. Prospective Perspectives – Mark suggests that the shape of the buildings that you’re shooting should alter the way you frame your images. Buildings with domes should include background to help viewers appreciate it’s form and square buildings look best when shot at a 45-60 degree angle in Mark’s books.
3. Up and Coming – Don’t just photograph the finished product when it comes to buildings but also focus upon construction areas and what is being built and/or renovated.
4. Permission to Shoot – Some places don’t allow public photography and you might need to get a license and/or other form of permission to photograph them. Mark likens it to getting a model release when photographing people. Getting permission can mean the difference between owning copyright or not of the images you take in some instances. This will of course vary from place to place.
5. Angle Attack – Find new angles to photographing well known buildings. Find areas of them that are hidden from the average photographer and look for interesting patterns, shapes, textures, reflections and angles that highlight the details of the building that might have previously been missed by others.
Why you Need a Telephoto Zoom Lens for Landscape Photography Read more: http://www.digital-photography-school.com/why-you-need-a-telephoto-zoom-lens-
Why you Need a Telephoto Zoom Lens for Landscape Photography
A wide angle lens is not the only lens to pack into your camera bag - sometimes a telephoto lens is best.
In this post naturalist, photographer, and computer scientist Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist explains why you need a telephoto zoom lens for landscape photography.
But, a telephoto zoom lens can also be helpful when photographing landscapes. To understand why, it’s important to know what determines perspective and how perspective can help convey a particular feeling in a photograph.
What determines perspective?
As Ansel Adams repeats so often in his wonderful book, The Camera: “perspective is a function of camera-to-subject distance.”
There’s a common misconception that perspective is determined by focal length, but in reality, the only thing that determines perspective is where you put the camera.
There are at least two rules of perspective that you should be familiar with:
- the closer you get to a subject, the larger it will appear on the image frame (yeah, this one’s obvious)
- as you move closer to your scene, the closest objects will increase in size faster than the distant objects (not so obvious)
The second rule is the one we often forget, and it’s best illustrated with an example, so take a look at this photo I took in the Eastern Sierra of California:
In this photo, I was standing about 100 ft (30 m) from those boulders in the foreground. As a result, the dominant object in this shot is the mountain in the background, which stood miles away from the boulders.
Now, look what happens when I move just 50 ft (15 m) closer to those boulders:
All of a sudden, the mountains in the background don’t look so mighty, and now those boulders in the foreground are the dominant objects. This photo has a drastically different feeling than the previous one. The perspective you choose for a landscape will depend on the feeling you’re trying to convey.
Personally, in this case I prefer the first photo, because as I stood there in front of the scene, I felt like the mountain was in charge: it had an overpowering effect on me. So, I decided to give it an overpowering effect in the final image.
Where to Focus in Landscape Photography
When shooting a normal landscape image it is normal to attempt to keep as much of the image in focus as possible.
This means selecting a small Aperture (remember the larger the number the smaller the actual Aperture) to ensure that you end up with a large depth of field. This will ensure that parts of the image that are both close and far away from you have a good chance of being somewhat in focus.
But at what point in the shot should you actually focus the image?
I suspect that many digital camera owners would set the focal point as the middle of the shot – or even at the horizon – however it might not actually be the ideal place to focus your camera.
I chatted this week with a landscape photographer who shared this tip:
‘Focus in the lower half of the image – at around the ‘thirdway’ point.’
Ok – I’m not sure if ‘thirdway‘ is an actual word – but what he was suggesting is that the point that will help you get the maximum amount of your shot in focus is at a point around a third of the way up an image (as highlighted above).
This is a fairly general rule and you’d want to ignore if if your landscape shot had a particular point of interest in it that wasn’t on the third line. However if your landscape shot doesn’t have one specific point of interest it is probably a rule worth using.
My photographer friend went on to give a rather complicated reasoning for focusing upon this point a third of the way into an image that I don’t wish to repeat here for fear of losing many – however, in general if you focus too far into your image you’ll end up with objects in the distance nice and sharp but anything close to you noticeably out of focus. If you focus at the lower third you increase the depth of field in the foreground and as depth of field extends further behind a focal point than in front of it the distant objects will be reasonably sharp too.
Disclaimer – I should say that in researching this technique I found a lot of debate on the topic and a lot of technical language – in actual fact this ‘rule’ depends on many factors including the focal length of your lens, the format you’re shooting in (vertical or horizontal), the aperture you’re using and how far the scene extends away from you.
However I’ve found it to be a useful ‘rule’ to know and to start with when shooting landscapes. Whether you focus exactly on the third way point probably doesn’t matter that much – however the key is not to focus on the horizon but closer to you as the photographer.
Perhaps it’s one of those ‘one percent’ rules that won’t make a lot of difference for most of us – but when you’re taking high level landscape shots it’s often the little things that count!
4 Rules of Composition for Landscape Photography
While I’m not always a fan of sticking strictly to the ‘rules’ or ‘guidelines’ of photography I think they can be well worth knowing and keeping in the back of your mind as you shoot (whether it’s so you can follow them or break them for effect). Here’s four ‘rules’ for landscape photography that might be helpful for those just starting out (ie they’re not meant as a definitive guide but rather a starting point) :
1. Diagonal Lines
Using diagonal lines can be a very effective way of drawing the eye of those viewing an image into it and to the main focal point.
The ‘lines’ need not be actual lines – they could be the shape of a path, a line of trees, a fence, river or any other feature in an image.
Converging lines (two or more lines coming from different parts of an image to a single point) can be all the more effective.
Read more about using Diagonal Lines in your digital photography.
2. Geometric Shapes
By positioning key aspects of a landscape on points of a geometric shape you can help create a balanced composition. Perhaps the most common and easiest way to do this is to use a ‘triangle’ shape between objects in an image with three objects in a frame positioned with one to each side and one more central.
Using Geometric Shapes in this way isn’t something that I’ve done a lot of – but it is one technique to get balance in a shot and if you’re clever, to lead the eye into it (in a similar way to the diagonal lines rule above).
You can see this illustrated (to a point) in the photomontage image to the right.
3. The Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Thirds gets trotted out more often than any other in all types of photography and is one of the first rules of composition taught to most photography students. While sometimes it can feel a little cliche it can also be a very effective technique in landscapes (although keep in mind that breaking this (and other rules) can also produce dramatic and interesting shots).
Position key points of interest in a landscape on the intersecting point between imaginary ‘third’ points in an image and you’ll help give your image balance and help those focal points to really capture attention.
Read more about using the Rule of Thirds in composing your shots.
4. Framing Images
While adding points of interest to a foreground is an important technique for adding interest to landscape shots – a similar technique is to ‘frame’ the shot by adding interest to other parts of the edges of an image.
Perhaps the most common way of framing a landscape shot is to include an overhanging branch in the upper section of a shot. Similarly framing a shot with a bridge might work.
Read more about Framing Images
Rules are Made to Be Broken?
Of course while knowing the rules can be important – knowing when to use them and when to break them is a talent that great photographers generally have.
Practice these techniques – but don’t get so worked up about them that they kill the creativity that you have.
Let me finish with a quote about Rules of Photography from Photographer Edward Weston to help give us a little balance on the topic:
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.”
Further Reading: 11 Surefire Tips for Improving Your Landscape Photography.
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