Ok, for the real geeks, here are the ways to make online shopping pay and pay again. Here is the math if you have the time to do it. First figure out what points are actually worth. These vary quite a lot. For instance on our best card with the best redemption, you get 8.5% […]

Most of the documentation for this seems to be pretty obsolete as things have really shifted around. The main issue that there are two big security holes right now and the big tradeoff is that you can be more completely open source and use OpenPGP, but you can’t use your iPhone conveniently as Apple doesn’t […]

Well lots of discussion, but the first two lenses for the A7R have been amazing, so maybe like the 5D2 (may mine RIP) the overhype and the under hype will meet on the Sony. Also, the 24-70 F/4 lense is coming January 24, so will be the first test of a real zoom on this […]

So Christmas is over and the bargain hunting is just beginning. Still, when looking at the gift guides, there are a few items I really do wish I had gotten (and may soon). They tend to fall into two categories: a) things from really cool niche vendors who care about their trade and b) classic […]

It is pretty amazing to me how little has been automated in all these years for a IT “dad” who has to maintain a bunch of computers for the extended family. While there have been lots of lockdown technologies for servers and some draconian things for desktops, really the effort to maintain a good, virus-free […]

Amongst the many projects I’m working on (as I wait for Windows to run its updates, do virus scanning with Windows Defender), so in looking at WordPress, I’m helping someone update from a traditional static layout to a nice front page that has a blog in the front for recent news and a schedule of […]

Wow, I’m back to Windows hacking, here are some things that are going on with Windows 8.1 and Sony Vegas Platinum 11: Just running Make Movie is failing to render properly and reportedly doesn’t create enough for a DVD. The rendering is also using just 50% of processing power on a monster Core i7 4770 […]

If this isn’t the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, I don’t know what is, but if you have a Samsung screen that is overscanning a digital input (apparently it does it for all inputs!). Then you need to fix it by physically changing the hardware connection. Only HDMI1/DVI *doesn’t* overscan. And then you On Saturday […]

If you have a camera (like my Sony RX-100) that produces .MTS files for its H.264 format, then editing on the mac ain’t easy. Because you really want something like mp3trim which trims but doesn’t uncompress and recompress. Every once in a while I try to edit video in the .MTS format on m yMacBook with the built-in […]

Wow some amazing results, it looks like the Sony A7R with the right lense (?!) is at the same level of resolution as the Nikon 800E but in a much smaller body. So it makes it every more likely that mirror less is (at least for me) the way to go. Interesting to see the […]