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Well if you are in the market for a new laptop, there is nothing quite like the Mac Rumors Buyers Guide (http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/) which basically tells you if a model is obsolete or there is something coming. Once you get a green light from them (literally!), go to the Apple Insiders…

I’m a waiting for Mac Imatest…in the continuing adventures to have really accurate results from photography 🙂 When will a Macintosh version be available? As of July 2013 we are very close. the core program is working fine, but some peripheral details need to be completed. Stay tuned… . Imatest…

What a great name for a web site. Well if you love Panini, here are the things to get: Breville Panini Duo. It is small but compact (and we love our Breville Toaster Oven, believe it or not a good toaster oven really matters). In this case this one is…

Found one of these four drive systems literally in a filing cabinet. We’ve been putting 4TB drives into our Drobo Pro so had some old (2009!) 2TB drives in the closet as well. Amazing how sometimes this old stuff works. Updated to the latest firmware 1.4.2 and Dashboard 2.5 and…

Wow Lightroom is powerful and most of the things seem to be pretty manual. Scott suggested going through the tutorial and here is what I learned from Julianne Kost. Man this is a powerful product that you can’t learn just by clicking. There are so many strange UI ideas like…

While you are at it, it is pretty clear that 99.9% of all people should use Adobe. It is integrated and works well, but if you are a craftman, then you can try to roll your own with these separate tools. This works if you are a perfectionist and don’t…

Now that I actually understand Lightroom (that it does lens correction by default for point and shoots it knows about and for all micro-4/3 lenses), I’m off to compare them. Sadly, the reviews between the various products aren’t super helpful. They mainly focus on features rather than on image quality.…

Well now that Apple has launched the iPhone 5, iPad Air and iPad Mini, time to see what else folks are doing. The main thing seems to be to try to be Apple at half the price. Not a bad time to be buying stuff. Here is the buzz on…

Well, a little late to the party, but PS4 seems to be sold out online at all the relevant stores, Walmart, Best Buy and Amazon, so what’s left is to either wait at midnight at Best Buy or Game Stop. Amazon has a host of bundles including a pair of…

In a massive OS X Mavericks upgrade over at this shop. I’m sure more memory will help, so for our older machines, how much more can they handle: Mac Mini 2010. 16GB of PC8500 (DDR3-1066) memory. OUr has 8GB  right now and I wonder if there are the usual issues…