All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

SpotRemote: A Spotify remote for iPhone

I’m a regular user of Apple’s iTunes Remote application for iPhone. It lets me listen to my music upstairs while controlling my iTunes downstairs (I have speakers upstairs wired to the downstairs media center). Now that I’m subscribing to Spotify and using...

/ January 31, 2013

The Hale 9000

Some in Seattle are worried about drones or automatic license plate recognition, but the real danger may be lying at Hales’ Ales Brewery in Fre-lard.  

/ January 31, 2013

How to Find Trial Downloads of Legacy Adobe Photoshop and Creative Suite Software

This link is also hard to find but you may need it if you’ve reinstalled OS X or bought a new Mac. Here is the link to Adobe’s legacy download page for old versions of Photoshop and Creative Suite. You’ll...

/ January 30, 2013

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