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Sigh. Why is it that people sometimes get so close to great and then fail. Apple photostream is nearly wonderful but feels half implemented. The main issue is that while sharing, u only get low resolution images. The sad thing is they do store the original resolution somewhere but other…

Some good ones and you can even peel them off: Now All Who Wander Are Lost. $10 at Amazon. P.S. I Love You. Another great little saying :-0 $3 from Amazon.

As if there wasn’t more to think about. The Canon 70d is pretty amazing with its dual contrast detection sensors. Canon 70d really works for incredible videos. Now if they would put that into a new full frame. Wow.

I have some old home movies which were split up into different AVIs in the old days of CDs at 700MB, so how do I put it all back together: AVIdemux2 is a freeware product that takes things in AVI containers and joins them or transcodes them. Since we are…

As my buddy Sam said, it is always interesting to see what Rich finds interesting and watch him burrow down…well, continuing that tradition, we were in “Back to School” mode and someone asked, what’s the best pen? Can’t help but use Google to answer and found some wonderful sites like…

Its amazing how quickly you can use storage. We have our star windows machines in a 2x250GB soft raid. But the new drives allow more questions. Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech like. There is going to be a sea change shortly as SSD moves to PCI Express and we could even…

Its amazing how quickly you can use storage. We have our star windows machines in a 2x250GB soft raid. But the new drives allow more questions

Well spent a weekend using these are some quick thoughts: The Sony RX100 is actually a spectacular camera. It is much smaller than the smallest of these and its photo quality at wide angle is comparable to these in good light. And it is definitely nice to have a zoom.…

Back to school time. Time to figure out a daypack that works not just for school but also can do double duty as a hiking pack. I would get the osprey talon 22. In fact I kind of want one. A little heavy but perfect for big loads like school…

Nothing like using lensrentals.com and actually using all three cameras for a weekend. Really eye opening. Here are the quick notes and some test summaries. As an aside, I like to look at four review sets: Handling. Ming Thein and others who use the camers professionally Sensors. the specifications at…