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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 Nothing like buying a camera that is obsolete in two months!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…

John and I saw them and we now have “his and her’s” version plus hopefully a homebrew one we build ourselves 🙂 This is part of the movement calle Reprap which sure feels like the old Altair 800 kit computer days. That product was what gave start to the Microsoft…

So how much real throughput can you actually get if you saturate a Wifi channel. Here are some examples. The net is you get about half the effective throughput. So for most devices that are doing 802.11g at 54Mbps, you are geting about 25Mbps. How does that translate? Well with…

How many times have I thought this was happening to me… Resistance Is Futile – Television Tropes & Idioms We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is…

The big problem with getting cell phones now is that you get locked into expensive data plans. AT&T as well as Verizon want an incremental $40 per phone (although it does come with unlimited text and voice) for two years. Even T-mobile which is inexpensive wants $10 for voice/messaging plus…

Hmmm. I just noticed that one of my old time capsules suddenly things it is “December 30 2042” I sure wish it were, then we go warp to Andromeda and back in time for lunch. So the basic setup in Airport Utility doesn’t seem to give you a way to…