Well, the first reviews of the iPad Air are out and they are pretty stunning… The iPad was never light enough for me to comfortably hold in my hands, suspended above my face while lying in bed or on the couch for long periods of time. The iPad 2 got close, but the 3rd and […]

Seems like every year, I have to update this, but the good news is that international calling is getting cheaper and cheaper. Here are some of the great ideas: T-Mobile. They just announced that in 100 countries, there would be no data roaming charge. Wow that is great and although it is only 2G, it […]

Scott reminded me about this important concept. Basically, you overexpose on a digital camera so that you lift the darkest regions out of the noise and then in digital processing, you put it all back again. It is kind of like the way Dolby C noise reduction worked in the old analog days (they would […]

Spideroak is a company with their hearts in the right place. it is basically a dropbox competitor except that it is zero knowledge. Sadly, it just doesn’t seem to work. They don’t seem to have a forum or anywhere to ask questions, but just beware this is what happened: I got 5GB of storage and […]

In my case, I got the double foul. My NAS tried to mount forever and failed; same with a Windows 8 PC on my network. The cause appears to be changes made in the networking stack made by Apple. Apple’s SMB2 implementation doesn’t work with a lot of SMB2 devices — even networked drives from […]

Well, I got the Vsonic VC-1000 and then promptly lost them, but now I have all three and can report…wow… Joker is right (see http://www.head-fi.org/t/478568/) these are incredible headphones. I just looked for headphones rated 9.2 and which were amazing. I have to say, I’ve always loved my Etymotic ER-4S and Ps (over the years, […]

Well if you are in the market for a new laptop, there is nothing quite like the Mac Rumors Buyers Guide (http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/) which basically tells you if a model is obsolete or there is something coming. Once you get a green light from them (literally!), go to the Apple Insiders Price Guide (http://appleinsider.com/mac_price_guide/) and get […]

I’m a waiting for Mac Imatest…in the continuing adventures to have really accurate results from photography 🙂 When will a Macintosh version be available? As of July 2013 we are very close. the core program is working fine, but some peripheral details need to be completed. Stay tuned… . Imatest – FAQ.

What a great name for a web site. Well if you love Panini, here are the things to get: Breville Panini Duo. It is small but compact (and we love our Breville Toaster Oven, believe it or not a good toaster oven really matters). In this case this one is reported to have good temperature […]

Found one of these four drive systems literally in a filing cabinet. We’ve been putting 4TB drives into our Drobo Pro so had some old (2009!) 2TB drives in the closet as well. Amazing how sometimes this old stuff works. Updated to the latest firmware 1.4.2 and Dashboard 2.5 and it actually worked with Mac […]