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Been trying to figure out what to get folks for their birthdays, etc. The default choice is of course an Amazon Gift Cards, but you can do better than that. I usually check Wirecutter for instance as a place to find geek gifts.

Well, I have nearly everything, but our little pen thing broke (which purifies water), so back to the drawing board for something. It is a confusing topic but outdoorgearlab.com has some good advice. There are three kinds of systems: filter, chemical and UV. The net is that a filter doesn’t…

Nearly everyone needs one now, so here’s the free exam and then you mail a form in and $10 and get your certificate.

If you ever need to use a script to remotely copy, mount a dmg and then run a package, here is how to do it Installing packages from the command line – Mac OS X Hints I sometimes need to install updates remotely on a server I maintain. I already…

Yuck! But the Monterey Bay Aquarium has been hard at work on the exact place where you buy salmon. In summary, if you care about salmon, you literally can’t order salmon without asking lots of questions, but here is a the best choice list: Tank farmed salmon in the US…

This is awesomely cool (for once from Canon). They are using a new proprietary sensor which embeds focusing into the sensor array itself. Claim 30% focusing and it works while doing video. This is all about making this work well as a video. Canon 70D DSLR With Dual Pixel CMOS…

How could you put two identical slots next to each other. I haven’t used SD cards much so didn’t think about it, but it is a common problem and plenty of rube goldberg solutions. I like the vacuum cleaner idea! And it seems like it is so common the Apple…

 Nothing like buying a camera that is obsolete in two months! Wish the rumor sites had picked this up earlier…but the RX100 is definitely a nice camera anyway, just wish I had that extra stop as the main limitation is really at night. I’m not sure how useful the Wi-Fi…

In looking through the best android phones, has a great list including from the top: HTC One. All aluminum body and $600 Samsung Galaxy S4. Beautiful with a great camera, but folks didn’t like the plastic back, the slow user interface and just 9GB of the 16GB are free. If…

I’ve been using Bluehost for a long time and it seems reliable, but the prices have been moving up. I just did a comparison vs GoDaddy for grins and domain registration is 30% more expensive ($13 vs $10) and hosting is about double $9.95 vs. 4.95 a month. These are…