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Well just finished ten days of using the Olympus OM-D EM-5 and I have to say it has been the best experience so far, but still not quite perfect. Lensrentals.com is a great site for trying things and here are some of my initial impressions: Wow, the combination of a…

Argh. I’m so stupid. Left my toiletries in a United bin and someone is now using my toothbrush and enjoying my glasses I’m sure 🙂 Here are the replacements: Sonicare. They charge an insane amount for their toothbrushes, but we are trapped. We have all the heads. Normally this is…

Been using the OM-D E-M5 with the Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 Pro and 35-100 f/2.8 Pro lense for a little bit. These are amazing lenses. Accorinding to photozone.de, because of defraction, this lense is actually sharpest at f/4 and declines significantly at f/5.6 (this is the defraction effect which occurs much…

Pretty cool idea, start with Accor and then get matched with Best Western and IHG Rewards. If you do after October 1, then you get it all the way through 2013 Some of these promotions may require you to be an elite member with IHG Rewards Club. You can always…

Well as Rennie says, the main issue are the quality of the lenses (and I have a 16MP OM-D MD5 I’m trying righ now and it is tiny!), but Sony is working hard. They are naming their interchangeable lense full frame cameras, the A7 and the A7R and will announce…

OK, here are the ways to get XBMC (and its various Airplay, DLNA input drivers) on: Raspberry Pi. RaspXBMC needs a hard-wired network connection and I have an EDImaxx USB wireless dongle. Argh. But at least it boots. OpenElec  needs a .img image on an SD card. Mrpfister has some…

Well if you are hunched over in your dorm room, it’s time to realize your back is going to really hurt, so here are some suggestions: Separate keyboard and mouse/trackpad. So that you can have them at lower spot than the laptop A laptop stand. This move the laptop up…

Been trying to convert from Mac Mail to Thunderbird in the quest to get to more open source. Here are the issues: Thunderbird has this automatic identification of mail servers, but it doesn’t go to SSL encryption automatically, so you need to go to Tools/Account settings and change to SSL/TLS…

Bluehost offers a whole set of things that you can do to reduce spam. Here is what you do: Logon to yourdomain.com/cpanel Goto the mail section and enable Spam Assassin Then enable Spam Box Now create a folder called Spam in your email folders so that Spam Box can put…

I’ve been on a campaign to use as much open source as I can and the next change is the switch from Mac Mail to Thunderbird. Here are some of the tips and tricks: With bluehost, the ssl that you use for el cheapo sites uses the bluehost SSL certificate.…