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Josh had some good recommendations: Saltery Lodge as a good all inclusive. Catch silvers and do other things like river fishing to.

Well there are already dedicated sites like padgadget.com focused on it, but here is a quick list of accessories to buy. Apparently they’ve sold 500K in the first week! BodyGuardz is a plastic protective layer for the iPad like invisibleshield for the iPhone. I’ve used invisible shield and it works ok. Main problem is that for…

It is amazing to me what Steve Jobs has done and in a very unconventional way. Someone who essentially invented the PC with the Apple and then Apple II, then has a series of try to do it again with lots of hype and then fails with Apple III, Lisa, Newton, Next. But some how…

Someone actually analyzed Yodaspeak so it is fascinating to see how to talk like him.

Argh, what a hassle, this sure isn’t easy. The quad core imac can run Windows 7 64 bit, but you have to stand on your head to get it. First, Windows 7 doesn’t include the right video drivers (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173) and you have to have a USB keyboard and mouse). You first install: 1. Update Mac…

Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme Base Station Firmware Update 7.5.1 brings fixes for a pair of issues on Apple’s latest AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule base stations released last October .This update provides several fixes for the latest Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme Base Station (Late 2009) including: – An issue with wireless performance in the…

For those desperate to see an unboxing video of the iPad, here’s the first, from Stephen Fry. Fry, a well known friend of Apple, must have gotten one of the early shipments including all accessories:

OK, the latest firmware finally gives you a histogram in manual so you can check exposure. Also, it let’s you have 24fps for professional movies. Finally, there is a freeware firmware tool to add new features as well as something call the Drovus which does follow focus reviewed by <a href=”http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/freshdv/video/freshdv_reviews_cinevate_durus_follow_focus/>ProVideo</a>.

There are so many cool cameras out now, so what is a person to do. Well, here are recommendations based on what Rennie has said and I’ve seen: 1. Carry around camera: iPhone HD. Everyone is going to have one, but the best camera is one that is not available but the new iPhone HD…

Buddy has a Canon HF20 which makes 1080p in avchd format. The only way to get it into iMovie is to have the camcorder play back and then use iMovie to import from camera and then it transcode into the iMovie native format. Way cheaper than buying final cut pro