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Continue reading →: DSLR Recommendations
Well, the photo world is shaking up again. The new cameras are just so amazingly good and they are improving not so much in resolution. The megapixel wars are ending, but in providing great images at high ISOs. This means two things: a) available light shooting is much more natural…
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Continue reading →: Do Not Upgrade to your TomTom to 7.481
I just updated to the latest version of the firmware and now the TomTom hangs when search for a POI. “Tomtom Forums”:http://www.tomtomforums.com/showthread.php?s=85c58a2c63c0f09ae1ed4748c4fcfe4d&t=8710 reports lots of these problems. Basically, when searching a POI, it hangs on “Wait a moment…” amd then when you try to Find, you get a grey screen.…
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Continue reading →: Schultzy’s
Here is what I learned from Bruce about restaurants. He knows the folks are “Schultzy’s”:http://www.yelp.com/biz/shultzys-sausage-seattle for quite a while now. He’s a smart guy: * Its a cash business. So if you aren’t there everyday, it is really easy for a liquor bottle to disappear or for an order not…
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Continue reading →: Snipes
Had a chance to look at a Snipe. Its a two person 15 1/2 foot long racing sailboat. The class started in 1931 and it is a nice one to race and hang out with. The folks at “Snipe444”:http://snipe444.org are great and there is a “boat”:http://www.snipe444.org/classifieds.html for sale. It is…
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Continue reading →: Cathy Pacific Business Class
Wow, fully flat seats in business class on Cathay. Sign me up! And a flast screen TV too. That is great for the Vancouver to Hong Kong leg that I take sometimes.
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Continue reading →: Solid State Drives
Drool, drool, solid state drives are on the way. They are as fast as traditional hard disks. They are about $1,000 per 64GB drive which is still expensive but coming down fast. Think about it as the logical upgrade for your current notebook. AnandTech: 64GB SSD on the Desktop: Samsung…
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Continue reading →: Movies from Video Games
Video games are so advanced now that you can make really good animated features from them. One of my favorite games, “Call of Duty 4”:http://codhq.com has been used for a really amazing series called “Retaliation”:http://www.machinima.com/film/view&id=25388. You have to see it to believe how good it is.
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Continue reading →: Buying Guides
Dave asked me what review sites I use as he uses “Consumersearch.com”:http://consumersearch.com, I use a different site for each specialty area. And some notes on what’s the right buys… 1. Camcorders.info. The best reviews on video cameras. Canon HF-10 looks like the winner as HD camcorder2. Dcviews.com. An overview site…
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Continue reading →: Soros on the economy
Minds over Money: The godfather of global investors – May. 14, 2008 Where is your money now? A. Mostly in my endowment fund, a good portion of which I had farmed out to other money managers. When I saw what I considered the most serious financial crisis of my lifetime,…
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Continue reading →: Darrell is a genius
Here are some of the things he has selected…for us. He’s great and some good choices for others that are thinking about small business applications: * “Fonality”:http://fonality.com. IP PBX and also a PC Magazine editors choce. They sell a hardware box. $1000 is the software charge for standard. Professional is…
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