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Continue reading →: The next turn of the crank for nVidia, 4K displays happen next year
Both nVidia and AMD are going to ship their next video card generation (the 880?) next year on 20nm. Wow, what a tough time to be buying cards. It sounds like, if you can wait, then you might want to see that turn of the crank. Rumor is less power…
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Scribefire is back
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Continue reading →: Scribefire is backWow this was my favorite blogging plugin for a long time. I’m moving off of WordPress, but nice to see it is back and around. Check the thing out!
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Embedding a YouTube or Vimeo video in your slider – Themes & Co
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Continue reading →: Embedding a YouTube or Vimeo video in your slider – Themes & CoEmbedding a YouTube or Vimeo video in your slider – Themes & Co. Well, now that Responsive is running, it would be so cool to make this look like AirBNB or Twitter and have a video running in a slider. How cool is that. Turns out it is a little…
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Continue reading →: Future Web Platforms: From LAMP to where?
Tongfamily.com kind of missed a generation. I can’t believe it is 20 years since the first post on the site (1994!). And I still somehow have the 5,000 posts done over the years. There have been several major iterations of the site and while the text has survived not much…
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Continue reading →: Be careful when buying a USB wifi adapter
The net of this is that you probably want to buy your USB Adapter from either thinkpenguin.org for general intel linux and from modmypi.com or adafruit.com for Raspbian. Be careful that there are lots of knockoff cards and things that don’t work: Be careful when buying a card for this…
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The Best HDMI Switchers – IGN
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Continue reading →: The Best HDMI Switchers – IGNWell as usual I’m one port short. The system is 1080p only so don’t really need 4K switching (yet!).The big benefit of this one is automatic switching so you don’t have to program things Kinivo’s HDMI switcher is a stylish accessory for your entertainer center and can even switch inputs…
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Continue reading →: Compare Shark Rocket Ultra-Light Series ~ HV300-HV301-HV302 Shark Vacuums
Right after the uber expensive Dysons ($500 for a stick vacuum cleaner?!) is the Shark Rocket. The confusing thing is that there are three models with different packaging, distribution and pricing. Here’s the list and the conclusion HV300 ~ Shark Rocket Ultra-Light Upright Vacuum This Model is on Euro-Pro’s direct…
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Continue reading →: 802.11ac Wireless Access Points: Wait if you can for WiGig
Well 802.11ac has arrived with gigabit speeds, but the next wave is coming soon with support for 3-7Gbps so good to wait if you can as long as you can as Wave 2 is coming and the full Wave 2 is behind that. The first evolution of Wave 2 is…
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Continue reading →: Photoshop Baseline 'Standard' vs Baseline Optimized
These are the three JPG formats for image compression, which affects the way your images display on the web: Baseline Standard is used when you want your JPG to be recognizable to most web browsers. It’s basic and, well…. standard! It makes the least amount of changes to your image.…
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Continue reading →: “arbitrary stop errors because of excess overlap” : Bugs : Enblend
Sometimes enblend stops with error code 1 and a message “excessive overlap detected; remove one of the images”. This behavior is arbitrary. F.e. a test project with 8 images all in the exact same place on an equirectangular canvas doesn’t cause the error. via Bug #685893 (sf-2932316) “arbitrary stop errors…
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