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Well figuring out how to get useful data from your car is definitely an obscure art. Here are some notes for noobs: There is a standard connector for all cars after 1996 which is called OBD. (Onboard Diagnostics), you have you to google your car to figure out where the…

OK, there are a couple of ways to save some money: Cashback Monitor will tell you click through sites with discounts. Right now Top Cashback is offering an 8% discount if you click through to the App store on a Mac. pretty good. Once you click through, you should if…

Two quick notes. Since upgrading to MacOS Sierra, I’ve found that DxO in both its version 10 and version 11 is a little strange so some quick notes: The main window seems to get stuck in a highly vertical view. You have to click between the crop and move buttons…

Well I guess if you’ve built 20 machines by hand, it is inevitable you are going to get hardware problems and boot problems. Here are some and what to do to solve them: Ubuntu 14.04 gets stuck in a logon loop. I’ve had this problem twice now. You reboot your…

I’ ve been hitting quite a few these days, here are two annoying one: iPhone Upgrade Program. The actual loan you take from Citizen’s is managed by a site called fdec.com. Just be aware that this site does not work on either Safari where you get a blank page when…

Wow it is incredible what Chase is doing with rewards cards. Hey Paul if you are listening here is the ideal portfolio. It does seem like the devaluations of airlines has meant cards are where the action is :  1. Chase Sapphire Reserve. Effectively $150 per year ($450 plus $300…

This is an awesome card, but you have to dig down deep to activate benefits. It is buried deep in Redeem Points on the portal. Go to ultimaterewards.chase.com and do: First if you have other Chase cards, transfer all those points to the Sapphire Reserve so you can use them…

Well, now that 4K ultra high definition televisions costs as much as a bag of chips. (OK maybe not that little, but they are really inexpensive), the next jump in state of the art of high definition. That means a much higher color range than before so models like the…

OK, I finally had a sous vide meal with my buddy Paul, I can see why geeks all over the world buy these things, some notes: Buy a sous vide controller. The Anova immersion controller is less than $200, but the big boys get either a $1,000 Fusion Pro immersion…

Ok shooting a bunch of candids and here are some quick reminders for best settings: Canon 5D Mark II. I know it’s old but trusty. Base ISO is 100 and you want to start below ISO 800 before dynamic ranges disappears For lenses Canon 70-200/f2.8 L. This is not the…