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If this isn’t the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, I don’t know what is, but if you have a Samsung screen that is overscanning a digital input (apparently it does it for all inputs!). Then you need to fix it by physically changing the hardware connection. Only HDMI1/DVI *doesn’t* overscan.…

If you have a camera (like my Sony RX-100) that produces .MTS files for its H.264 format, then editing on the mac ain’t easy. Because you really want something like mp3trim which trims but doesn’t uncompress and recompress. Every once in a while I try to edit video in the .MTS…

Wow some amazing results, it looks like the Sony A7R with the right lense (?!) is at the same level of resolution as the Nikon 800E but in a much smaller body. So it makes it every more likely that mirror less is (at least for me) the way to…

Normally when someone asks me about getting a computer, I say, buy a MacBook with Applecare (three year warranty because it runs Windows and Mac OS X. And while it might seem expensive to start, they certainly are durable and the support is terrific. We have MacBooks bought in 2009…

FCP.co posted a 24-hour hands on with the new Mac Pro. They found read speeds of 880MB/s from the Mac Pro’s solid state storage, with impressive write numbers of 985.5MB/s. Further, the team discovered that new machine could post full 4K video with multiple color corrections, effects and transitions playing back all…

Well we already had Drobo Pro, so now here is XBMC. YOu need a pre build of Frodo 12.2 for it to work. 

So if you don’t have an unlimited hoster (like bluehost) and don’t want to maintain your own gallery (like zenphoto), here is what you can do. There are a zillion of these things according to wikipedia: * Flickr. This is 1TB of storage which is pretty close to unlimited for…

MacBook Pro this morning turned on but no bong and the screen is black. Google searches leads to either a motherboard failure or try a PRAM reset. That means hold down the on and then p, r and the option and command key. Quite hard to do but it worked!

Well every release of OS X seems to break our trusty old Drobo Pro. The things that really don’t work: iSCSI initiator. The one they use needs an old Java 6 and is pretty flaky, but there are not complaints like the Firewire and USB. I’ve had lots of prior…

Now that world is moving to 4K displays, it’s interesting to see what hardware actually works where. This is 4x more pixels than a 1080p display and double (about) that of a retina display (which is 2.8K or 1800p depending on the measurement system). So here is what seems to…