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Continue reading →: Modesta m4, M3 and m2 and Sonax for your carm.youtube.com/watch We got this Modesta ceramic coating and it is like your car is waxed all the time. It really look amazing but to maintain it, is a bit complicated. But fun to know. Here are some tips: Do this when cool and not in the sun. You don’t the…
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Continue reading →: From Bluehost to AWS Route 53 Decoder RingOk nerdy topic, but we’ve been gradually going to a Tri-mode system where I use Bluehost for casual stuff, DigitalOcean for stuff I care about like tongfamily.com and AWS for the big boy pants work. Part of that transition is moving from Bluehost DNS services to AWS services. This is…
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Continue reading →: Books and RelationshipsWell, it’s been 18 months into an experiment, reigniting old friendships and getting in touch with colleagues, some from 20 years ago!). One of the great outputs has been learning so much about so many things. And Bill wondered if there was a way to share it. Right now I…
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Continue reading →: Vuescan of Black and White NegativesI wrote a post nearly eight years ago on how to use Vuescan with a Minolta Dimage 5400 to get amazingly good scans of old images, but this doesn’t quite work for Black and White mainly because the Filter Infrared is off for Black and White scanning. So if your…
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Continue reading →: Wow the Touch Bar might have a use with pock
Well, what do you know there might actually be a use for that Touch Bar thing. I barely ever use it. Mainly to change the volume or brighten the screen, but if I know that it has the Dock, then it gives a reason to use it. Really an interesting…
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Continue reading →: Buying a Watch: Two ends of a spectrum
Well there are bunch of different choices with watches now. Overall, there are a few choices, but increasingly they are moving to opposite ends of the spectrum, so some recommendations: Apple Watch Well, I wouldn’t actually buy a Series 4 right now, it has the ECG thingy, but the upcoming…
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Continue reading →: Saving Disk Space on your Mac from Photos
OK, I have a Mac with a relatively small 256GB drive and right now 82GB are taken up by two caches in the system: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.iLife-Slideshow-Extension/Data/Library/Caches. Stackoverflow shows that this is really a cache of JPEG files that are converted from all your HEIC files. It let’s normal application run Insert…
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Continue reading →: Dr. Dave is famous
Nice quotes on using telemedicine to diagnose strokes in remote locations. Good job Dave! www.vidyo.com/wp-content/uploads/Case-Studies/vidyo_case_study_SUTTER.pdf And watch him on TV: youtu.be/Yp6AaPtzdT8
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Continue reading →: Amazon Prime Day and Computer Monitors
I can’t quite believe how much pricing for UHD televisions have fallen. Now you can get a 43″ UHD TV that is a terrific monitor for you home computer for just $249. 4k.com has a great list of smaller monitors. I What you need to make it work? Divvy I’ve…
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Continue reading →: Canyon under 6kg disc bike
Wow that’s pretty incredible. Super high price but now disc brake bikes are lighter than rim brakes. Had to happen. And this one is under the UCI weight limit. Pretty cool. bikerumor.com/2019/07/11/canyon-ultimate-cf-evo-disc-carbon-road-bike-goes-ultralight-under-6kg-complete/
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