A nerd teaching moment

Before we continue with the Tokyo photos, let me share with you a nerd teaching moment. Everyone gather around please.

Last night I borrowed an SD card reader from my aunt, who is a PC person, so I could finally release my photos from Fuji camera prison. I put my SD card into the reader, plugged the USB into my Macbook and POOF, a mysterious error occurred and I lost 4 days of photos from the Tokyo trip! Ahhhhh!

So I wrote an SOS Facebook status message and nerd friends from two continents offered their solutions. Except this is one of those situations where people are desperate and frantic and they're okay with forking over $29 for a program to retrieve their photos. Because those memories are priceless.

The thing is, I'm Gen Y and I don't want to pay for anything unless it's absolutely necessary. In other words, Gen Y people are the teenage shoplifters of the Internet. And while photos of Helen sleeping like a hobo at the airport are indeed priceless, they're not actually worth $29 in real money.

Luckily I got the photos back by using a free program called EXIF UNTRASHER. I found it by skimming the Macrumors forum where nerds gather from around the world to brainstorm exactly these types of important issues.

So the teaching moment here is if you have a Mac, you might want to consider bookmarking this page. It's a program that recovers JPEGs from multimedia cards and it's free. It might come in handy one day.

And since I saved $29 last night, I'm donating it to the Doctors Without Borders Haiti Earthquake Response.

Comments

[alex]

Thanks for the info, what gen am I? because I paid $29 to jailbreak my iPhone 2G. How stupid I am.

[kathy]

alex: hahahaha! $29 must be the magic number. You better bookmark the Macrumors site too then!