Lifehacker has an incredible set of good tips and tricks for computers: Photography. The best one is to download the Magic Lantern firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II. You throw it onto a compact flash card and it turns a decent HD camcorder into a great one. The main thing I haver to fix […]

I’ve always wanted to have the complete setup that includes speakers, projector and the ability to print and make super cool post card books. Now, it looks like I actually need it, so time to look for a great pico projector that is small and lightweight and throws a good enough picture for casual use. […]

Well Christmas was wonderful this year and as always, there are some great lessons. First the mundane. Some great gifts that aI saw moving through. Some expensive some not, the: 1. Parrot Ar.Drone. This was listed as the top gift in USA Today. And although pricey and not for kids, I have to say it […]

I don’t use Photoshop very much for fixing photos. I actually like to get the exact image (which is why I spent way too much time with DxO and Spyder3Elite to make sure what the image was appears on the page). But there are times when it makes sense to fix things. For instance blemishes […]

I’ve been living with awful prints for a while. I used Red River 68lb Glossy Pro (they don’t make it anymore) and could just never get the profiles to work right. Everything looked so red. This used to work fine on my Windows machines on the same Canon i9900. I don’t know if it is […]

So Christmas is nearly here, but what is coming in 2012. Some good thoughts for: Android Phones Well they are so popular, I do kind of want to try one. But it is so complicated because of the warious upgrade paths. Heres a good summary of what is happening, but like windows, the big issue […]

Ones to try include 1. Slanted door. New Vietnamese in the ferry building 2. Park tavern. And I guess SF folks love deviled eggs of all sorts!

A good discussion of what happened in Haiti and how it became a huge cholera outbreak area. In some ways it was inevitable because of the politcis of clean water. Sad but well documented in Wach Non Soley that talks aboiut how America blocked water projects in 2001 and thus there wasn’t enough clean water during […]

Sitting with another buddy who loves cameras and has been going through all these mirrorless cameras fast. This is the most active area right now and I want one that has great quality and is also decent to use (not easy). Right now, the choices are: Fuji X10. Amazing image, but autofocus misses and hard […]

Its so sad, I used to be so good at these games when they were on the PC and now on consoles, I’m just dead last in our house. There is a big shift from single player to multiplayer. Multiplayer isn’t really a combat simulation, but something else entirely. So no more sneaking around with […]