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  • RoboForm Password Manager

    I can’t take it, there are just too many passwords to remember and it isn’t very secure. “Roboform”:http://www.roboform.com/ is something my buddy Bill uses to automate this. I’m a believer now, it is sure convenient to have something that knows various passwords and that has a master. It also fills in your credit card information…

  • Fujifilm Finepix F11 and xD Cards

    Well, the xD is kind of a strange format that only the Fujifil FinePix F11 (“DCViews”:http://www.dcviews.com/reviews/Fuji-F11/Fuji-F11-review.htm) uses as far as I can tell. By the way, that is a great review of the F11. Amongst other things it does note that the camera sometimes overexposes. A small -1/3EV correction can be programed to take care…

  • The perfect compact camera

    finepix f11 – Froogle. For pure quality, the Fujifilm FinePix F11 is probably the best. You can’t get it in the U.S. because the big brands like Sony and Canon have blown it out of the market. The huge advantage is it can take very low noise pictures to ISO 400. If you want to…

  • Fast Compact Flash Cards

    “Rob Galbraith”:http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=6007-7699 did actual in camera testing with the Digital Rebel XT to see what were the fastest cards. For most of these, the RAW write speed wwas the most affect with the Sandisk Extreme III 1GB and 2GB having identical performance at 4.888MBps write JPEG and 6.26MBps RAW. It is also interesting to see…

  • Canon 430EX vs 580EX

    Canon Speedlite 430EX Flash Review. Once the decision on Camera is made, then there is a high and low flash model. You really do want a flash in most circumstances particularly indoors where bounce flash is very useful. The net is that the 580EX has a guide number of 190 (vs. 140) so is more…

  • Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5

    DCRP Review: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5. The H5 is just coming out in June. First reviews are in a week or two. There is some excitement about this camera since it is $500, 7 megapixels, 12x zoom and only weighs 1.3 pounds. I’m kind of expecting that it will be like the Canon IS-3 which is…

  • Fast SD Cards

    Now that there are 10MB (aka 66x), 20MBps (aka 133x) and even 22MBps (aka 150x) cards, its a challenge to figure out what to buy. Core Sound — PDAudio® System has done some benchmarking, but most folks don’t do reviews of SD cards. There is also an issue with older cameras since anything bigger than…

  • Western Digital Warranty Check

    Warranty Check for End User. A very useful site, this lets you check to see if your hard drive is eligible for warranty repair. I’ve had about 50% of my Western Digital drives fail me and about half my OCZ memory, so its pretty relevant to know the warranty policy. The latest one to bite…

  • Seagate 750GB Hard Drive

    “Anandtech”:http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2760 brings incredibly great news! Seagate just introduced their 7200.10 line and it uses a new technology called perpendicular recording. The net is that you can now get a 750GB hard drive (wow!). I’m actually running out of disk space with all the videos and photos I’ve been editing. Our main server has three 300GB…

  • Web 2.0 Logins 10 per day

    I’m on a campaign to have a logon for every Web 2.0 company coming on line. I sign up for roughly 10 companies or so a week, but it looks like I need to accelerate to keep up, so I’m setting the goal at 10 per day! Major hat tip ot “Techcrunch”:http://techcrunch.com which Jonathan told…