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I’ve been using Bluehost for a long time and it seems reliable, but the prices have been moving up. I just did a comparison vs GoDaddy for grins and domain registration is 30% more expensive ($13 vs $10) and hosting is about double $9.95 vs. 4.95 a month. These are all nominal amounts, but it…

John and I saw them and we now have “his and her’s” version plus hopefully a homebrew one we build ourselves 🙂 This is part of the movement calle Reprap which sure feels like the old Altair 800 kit computer days. That product was what gave start to the Microsoft with Altair Basic and of…

So how much real throughput can you actually get if you saturate a Wifi channel. Here are some examples. The net is you get about half the effective throughput. So for most devices that are doing 802.11g at 54Mbps, you are geting about 25Mbps. How does that translate? Well with my Sony RX100 camera, the…

How many times have I thought this was happening to me… Resistance Is Futile – Television Tropes & Idioms We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.” — The Borg, Star…

The big problem with getting cell phones now is that you get locked into expensive data plans. AT&T as well as Verizon want an incremental $40 per phone (although it does come with unlimited text and voice) for two years. Even T-mobile which is inexpensive wants $10 for voice/messaging plus $20 for data. The easiest…

Hmmm. I just noticed that one of my old time capsules suddenly things it is “December 30 2042” I sure wish it were, then we go warp to Andromeda and back in time for lunch. So the basic setup in Airport Utility doesn’t seem to give you a way to check the dates. Fortunately…. Also,…

Maybe the definite post, Ming Thein analyzes the different systems A question of sensor size – Ming Thein | Photographer I’m surprised not that the largest sensor with the biggest pixels wins in most categories, but that the results are so close at all; small sensors have really become quite good. (In fact, I suspect…

In looking at how alternatives to DxO and Adobe which are both ramping prices like crazy ($180 a year in DxOs case with forced upgrades and of course Adobe does the same. The Australian site says that Raw Therapee is not a bad free substitute. It includes per camera lense distortion correction (my favorite feature…

I can’t get a Mac to pair with a Bluetooth keyboard, so needs a reset, this didn’t work for me. What I found was that even with a reset it wouldn’t work. I had to change the passcode option to generate one automatically (it was defaulting to 0000) and this worked. It seems that at…

I just keep needing more and more (or rather losing more and more). For $11, the Kingston Data Travelr GE9 2.0 is hard to beat. It is small and has a big strong ring in aluminum as Kingston Digital DataTraveler SE9 16GB USB 2.0 DTSE9H/16GBZ. And they make a gold plated one for $12 for…