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iMac 17inch hdd install made easy with youtube

Richard van Dijk — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:59:57 +0000

So after we upgraded our home iMac we passed our old one on to Natalies parents which after six months required a rebuild as the drive was corrupted. I should have know the death bell was ringing but reformatted and reinstalled instead.

Then as I leave for Australia Nat rings saying it’s died again and they need it for the NCEA exam timetable that my Mother in law supervises. Bugger. So with fear in my head I thought here is a dead logic board but being well out of warranty I decided little was to be lost from replacing the internal hard drive.

The photo below shows the innards on the dining room table as I followed this video on you tube. Great after five minutes it was apart. Then off to the shop for a new 250gb SATA drive for $150 and put it in, reversed the process and began reinstalling the OS. Now all thats required is to see what I can rescue with disk warrior on the old drive. But once the iMac is out of warranty it certainly makes this an easy option for schools with these machines, especially for media where a 1tb drive could go nicely.

iMac hdd install on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Making the TEK irpen for wiiboard

Richard van Dijk — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:45:11 +0000

Here is a quick 3x speed video of Mark making an irpen. Feel free to comment and ask questions if you need any further help making your own. Or you can buy one by clicking on the link on this blog. If you need to see it in higher quality follow the link to you tube where there is the option of HQ.

YouTube – Making the TEK irpen for wiiboard.

Screen Steps Pro

Richard van Dijk — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:30:21 +0000

Thanks to TUAW I came across this gem, Screen Steps is the documentation tool for people who don’t like to do documentation. I have found it very easy to do and the beta version allows me to post direct to this blog. The formatting isn’t to crash hot but that is our issue not screensteps. The screensteps live posting is also very easy to use. I can see this being a simple way to put together a webquest as the program makes taking screenshots in sequence and then editing them very easy. Well worth a try to save time. $29 edu price for basic.

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

Using Moodle PD resources

Richard van Dijk — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:12:27 +0000

How to use the staff pd area on moodle.

Step 1

Visit KKC Moodle and click on the link to Staff PD

Step 2

It will ask you to add in your username and password

Step 3

Enter the text “pd2008″, ignore the fact that it says hilary johnson or whoever, this is just the last person to log on

Step 4

Thats it you are in and can edit it just like a normal moodle page.