Adobe Updater Crashes on Mac OS X

I have been trying to fix a problem with Adobe Updater after installing Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac on my new MacBook Pro.  Every time I opened Elements (same thing happened when I used evaluation version of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom) or invoked Adobe Updater from inside the application, I would get the error message "Application Adobe Updater quit unexpectedly."

Today I finally came across the fix on a Aric's Tech Blog.  Turns out, this is a permission issue with Adobe Updater not able to modify files it does not have enough access too. 

To resolve, open Terminal application (under Applications>Utilities>Terminal) and issue the following command:

sudo /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ Utilities.localized/Adobe\ Updater5/Adobe\ Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe \Updater

After issuing the command aboce, I was asked for admin password before the command could execute. 

Adobe Updater works like a charm now. 

Paris, Musee du Louvre

Paris, Musee du Louvre, originally uploaded by [Anna.W].

I'm still in the process of going through all of my pictures from the recent vacation trip to Paris, France and Gdansk, Poland (the latter being my hometown). I had only one lens with me thought the trip, Nikkor 16-85mm. My uncle and I were taking photos of this beautifully lit Louvre way past midnight. Most of my night shots unfortunately are still not very good but I do enjoy taking them enormously. I think I am slowly getting better at taking them, or at least I think I am improving. Shooting at night forces me to think about all the settings and often it is a hit or miss effort that takes a lot more time to achieve satisfactory exposure. It's a lot of fun but requires a good sturdy tripod and remote shutter release.

For this long exposure shot, I used my uncle's tripod.

ISO Speed: 200
Exposure: 15 sec
Exposure Program: Manual
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal Length: 16 mm

Adding pages to your blogger site

As I am trying to develop my blog on blogger.com, I wanted to add additional static pages such as About and Contact Me which could be accessed from the top navigation bar. Although blogger.com does not provide an option for adding any static pages , I have found this nifty post from a fellow blogger Nischal Shetty on how to accomplish this using a simple yet effective 'will do' workaround.

Here are the steps to accomplish this task as provided by Nischal Shetty (his original post can be found here):

Note: Backup your template before making any changes

1. Click on “New Post” on Blogger.com
2. Write whatever you want your static page to display in this new post.
3. In the page where you write your new post, you will see a link ‘Post Options‘. Click on it.
4. Click on ‘Don’t Allow‘ . Do this only if you do not want comments on the static page.
5. You will also see that you can change the post date and time. Now this is really important. If you are going to have a static page in Blogger.com then you should see to it that it doesn’t end up in your subscribers feed readers. So, the best thing to do is to go to your very first post and see the date (by the way do you remember the day when you wrote your very first post?). Change the date of this new post to something before the date of your first post.
6. When you’re all done click the ‘Publish Post‘ button.
The steps below will guide you on how to prevent the post date from appearing in the post that you just published. (Do this only if you feel that a page shouldn’t have a post date)
1. In your blogger blog, click the Layout tab.
2. Click the Edit HTML link.
3. Click on the Expand Widget Templates checkbox.
4. Search for data:post.dateHeader
5. Before the above code, add the following : b:if cond=’data:post.allowComments
6. After data:post.dateHeader include the following: b:if
The above steps tell Blogger not to display the date for posts that have comments disabled. Since we have disabled the comments for our static page, the page won’t display the post date as well.

Once you have created a post in the above mentioned way, you can start placing links to the static page from anywhere you feel appropriate in your blog.

Frosty first day of spring

Frosty first day of spring, originally uploaded by [Anna.W].

I took this pic on an early morning walk with Simon around my neighborhood. It was still quite cold with temperature around 27 deg F. And yes, it was a fist day of spring.

@ Guggenheim Museum, New York City

DSC_1318.jpg, originally uploaded by [Anna.W].

I took this picture in New York City's Guggenheim Museum.

walking the desert

walking the desert, originally uploaded by [Anna.W].

I got a new lens today, Nikkor 7-300 mm f/1.8d VR. Above is one of the first images using it... Taken in color, convered to black and white using picasa.