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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…

I’ve been a fan for a while, but as they’ve raised rates, it does make me think that eventually people will move away from cable to over the top internet access.  For instance, right now you can either pay a huge bundle increase ($65 to $149) just to get HGTV…

Say what you want about Apple, but if you are someone (like me) who wants simple, amazing and well built, it is hard not to lust for these many, many new products, in order of desire: I can’t decide if I want the iPad Mini more now that it has…

OK, I’ve been trying to use Spider Oak as a secure and private replacement for DropBox and it is a big weird. Here are the things to know: It is sort of similar to Dropbox in that there is a Hive where all files are synced between machines But, each…

I’ve been using DxO for years now and have faithfully paid the upgrade charges from DxO 4 -> 6 (skipped 5, really poor quality) -> 7 -> 8, but now it seems like everyone is moving to Lightroom and the key feature of DxO (for me anyway) was lens correction,…