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MacBook Pro refresh
Hurray, now that the hardware is updated, its time to buy. There are lots of incremental improvements, but the biggest news is the LED-backlight in the 15.4″ and the upgrade to 1920×1200 on the 17″. Drool, drool. Also, you can now get a 250GB hard drive and 4GB of memory, so they are getting closer…
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Hard Disk Cloning
When Calvin’s Athlon 64 died, I got a backup Intel Pentium M system up. Now we have all his files and the operating system on a SATA drive, but I have an old IDE drive, so I’d like to use that instead. To do it, I have to clone the entire setup. I’ve actually never…
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MagicDisc
“MagicDisc”:http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm?=magiciso like Daemon is a program that mounts a CD or DVD image as if it were a real DVD or CD. Very useful for lots of disk images about. If you can believe it there is such a proliferation of file types that this kind of program is really needed. It handles * BIN…
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Ebel Classic Model Ladies Watches
Someone was asking about buying women’s watches. These are mainly fashion items now that you get for $25 at the Target. So someone asked me what you are doing and whether it makes sense to go buy something on the Internet or from a local retailer. So here are some findings. First of all, there…
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Tamron 18-250 superzoom for Canon
Well Nikon (the “Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR AF”:http://www.popphoto.com/cameralenses/2763/lens-test-nikon-18-200mm-f35-56g-dx-vr-af-s.html makes are nice superzoom that is a good reference standard for superzoom. Iisn’t fast and does have optical distortion (0.73% barrel at 18mm so you’ll want to use DxO, vignetting everywhere below f/6.3 and it is good for 8×10 from 18-100, pretty good for 5×7 at…
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Free Wifi
Seems like I’m always out and about and with all the traffic these days, I either plop down at Starbucks and spent $3 on a coffee and $10 on wifi or I look for somewhere with free wifi. There are zillion places that have that now. Here are some listings: “Wififreespot.com”:http://www.wififreespot.com/wa.html has a pretty good…
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Citizen Watch Bands
I finally got my Citizen Eco-Drive watch. I have to say the Amazon reviews were quite accurate. It is a really nice watch. Not too expensive. But you do need to get the band fixed by a Citizen “Retailer”:http://direct.where2getit.com/cwc/apps/w2gi.php?sid=46632d07ee3b5&client=citizenus&template=locator2005&postalcode=98004&Submit=Submit, but they are easy to find. JC Penney for instance or Sears does this. The digits…
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Another dead hard drive
I’m beginning to think that the whole idea of putting 2.5″ drives into desktops is a bad idea. I’ve had now three 2.5″ drives fail in the last month. All are 60GB models, but I think there is just lots more use they get. Two were in an ASUS M3p. One was the base drive…
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PDGA Disc Golf Course Directory and Mount Lake Terrace
!<http://www.leftcoastdiscgolf.com/images/zoom/KTQUNB/mlt_1t.jpg! A really cool use of Google Maps, this shows every disc golf course in a given area at “PDGA Course”:http://www.pdga.com/course/gindex.php. We went to Minerva Park last week, now we can go to “Mount Lake Terrace”:http://www.leftcoastdiscgolf.com/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=42&page=view&catid=183&key=1&hit=1
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Raw Workflow: DXO to Noise Ninja to Miranda Sharpening
OK, with my handy new Canon Rebel XT, here is the workflow I use. It is a best tool for the job procedure: # Colorvision Spyder2Pro. This is the color calibration tool to make sure my LCD looks like the photo looks like the printer. Most LCD monitors are way too blue, so it is…