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Continue reading →: DJI Osmo Mobile 2 Simple Workflow
OK, I’ve recorded three events with the DJI Osmo Mobile 2. It’s a nice $129 stabilized mount that fits an iPhone X pretty much perfectly. There are quite a few tricks to using it, so here’s a short list of notes. Setting up The thing is actually pretty hard to…
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Continue reading →: iPhone Audio Recording
Well, the DJI Osmo Mobile 2 is an incredible stabilized mount for doing recordings at live events with an iPhone, the video quality is unbelievable and the controls are great, but the sound quality is just so, so. The iPhone has just a small monophonic microphone, so that’s one thing…
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Continue reading →: Cool Deals: Digital Subscriptions
The Washington Post This is normally $10/month, but with Amazon, you get a deal where it is $4/month after a six month trial for Amazon Prime member. Nice! Photo by charlotte on Unsplash
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Continue reading →: Social Enterprises and Impact Investing
I don’t know how big a category this is going to be, but there are definitely some interesting resources to look at. For instance, we have… IMPACTBASE. This is a “partial” database of institutions offering various funds and how much capital is committed in them. I have gone through to…
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Continue reading →: Scale Down an Image in Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android
Hat tip on pointing Image Size by vsmedia.de as the perfect app to down res photos. Needed if you post to WordPress or need an avatar for a site…. — Read on helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/scale-down-an-image-in-windows-mac-ios-and-android/
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Continue reading →: Why amazon should just buy fakespot.com
It’s so sad to see so many Amazon Choice products with D ratings. The spammers are winning so please don’t buy there unless you check fakespot.com As an example this highly rated 4.8 star watch band is 68% fake even after Amazon purged most of its reviews a month ago.
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Continue reading →: US Navy updates
OK, I admit it, I’ve been a nerd about the US Navy since I was in the 5th grade and wrote a report on them. (Maybe the fortune teller was right, I was supposed to be an oil tanker captain :-). Anyway, was cleaning out the PDFs stuck in iCloud…
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Continue reading →: Turning all your devices into Bluetooth ones
Well now that we have AirPods (and love it), plus these ultra cool Sony headphones, it just makes me want to make everything a Bluetooth device. Fortunately for $27, you can do that. Just get the Mpow Bluetooth 4.1 Transmitter/Receiver, this thing is a tiny device that is micro-USB powered.…
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Continue reading →: Cool way to add music and lyrics to WordPress
I don’t often see how much WordPress has moved forward, but this is definitely one of them. It used to be really hard to embed things into WordPress posts (Medium is the same way, you can’t add bullets, you can’t add videos, afaik). But they have an incredible number of…
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Continue reading →: Wrote My Way Out.. Remix
Wow what a powerful song, I’m just catching up on the Hamilton Mixtape and it is awesome. Particularly love Wrote My Way Out. I had not realized that the playwright who did Rent died just as it was going into previews. And listening to the stories that Rap can tell…