All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

How to Download the Apple Aperture 3.x Trial

If you purchased Aperture before it was integrated into AppStore and are having trouble installing it on a new machine or re-installing it, you can download the Aperture 3.1 trial from Apple here. You’ll still need your Aperture activation key to...

/ January 30, 2013

Primal Pacs: Just Sick and Wrong

These primal pacs are disgusting. This is a product that might benefit from using opaque packaging materials.

/ January 28, 2013

IKEA Standing Desk for $109

Inspired by Lifehacker’s Standing Desk’s on the Cheap, I put together this IKEA standing desk solution for $109. It took me about an hour to assemble. In the picture, I’m using a Goldtouch Go Travel Keyboard but I’ve switched to...

/ January 28, 2013

Mad Love – Meghan Currie on the Beach

[teaser]I’m not usually a fan of these kinds of videos because I don’t believe in over-emphasizing the physicality of yoga achievable only by few, but I think this one is well done. Meghan Currie via Elephant Journal. Her drop back...

/ January 26, 2013

Making WordPress Faster with Apache, Varnish and W3 Total Cache on Amazon AWS EC2 with CloudFront CDN

Update: There is now a much more complete tutorial to installing Varnish with W3 Total Cache and Amazon CloudFront here. [teaser]This post will help you speed up and optimize your WordPress blog on Amazon AWS EC2 with Apache, Varnish and...

/ January 26, 2013

My First Car2Go Rental in Seattle

Update: I made three trips in total on Friday. The total cost would have been $21.83 (if not for the 30 minutes free). On the second trip, it was hard to find a valid parking spot on the street near my...

/ January 25, 2013

Great Template for a Web-based Online Resume (CV)

Update: I’ve updated my resume and am not actively using this template at this time. I’ve been using QBKL’s Bold Resume/CV Template to create a web-based online version of my own resume. The template costs $8 and requires knowledge of...

/ January 18, 2013