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Maybe the definite post, Ming Thein analyzes the different systems A question of sensor size – Ming Thein | Photographer I’m surprised not that the largest sensor with the biggest pixels wins in most categories, but that the results are so close at all; small sensors have really become quite…

In looking at how alternatives to DxO and Adobe which are both ramping prices like crazy ($180 a year in DxOs case with forced upgrades and of course Adobe does the same. The Australian site says that Raw Therapee is not a bad free substitute. It includes per camera lense…

I can’t get a Mac to pair with a Bluetooth keyboard, so needs a reset, this didn’t work for me. What I found was that even with a reset it wouldn’t work. I had to change the passcode option to generate one automatically (it was defaulting to 0000) and this…

I just keep needing more and more (or rather losing more and more). For $11, the Kingston Data Travelr GE9 2.0 is hard to beat. It is small and has a big strong ring in aluminum as Kingston Digital DataTraveler SE9 16GB USB 2.0 DTSE9H/16GBZ. And they make a gold…

Got some ancient hardware I’m trying to use: Resurrected iMac 24″ (early 2008). Not a bad 24″ display and it is decent for processing. Bummer that the mini-DVI port on the back (before displayport) won’t work in target mode so you can’t use the beautiful display for much. But otherwise…

Well, I’m going through old photos that have been scanned or otherwise digitized, so there is nothing to tell you when (I can usually guess where). So sometimes it is nice to know when it snowed in Seattle say 10 years ago. How do you do that? Well NOAA has…

I put my dearly loved All Clad no stock 8″ pan into the oven to heat and ruined the coating (no to self never over heat the pan or put in the oven ever!). It’s my second $90 pan I’ve torqued in five years. In looking at Cook’s Illustrated. They…

At least for nerds. We looked at building a quadracopter, but at $500 for the kit plus $400 for a RC controller (?!!), it does seem a little expensive. Still for $1500, you can get a drone which flies for 15 minutes, gives you a first person view through a…

Someone was asking me, so what would you get if you wantd to just read a book. It’s an interesting question as there are so many units to choose from. The big three are of course Apple, Kindle or some Android thing (Samsung). But there are so many models. Toptenreviews.com…

While RedHat (and its derivatives like CentOS) have lots of packages that you can install, not everything is there. Repoforge seems like the other big source of packages. Here is how to get your CentOS to know that repository: AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge – CentOS Wiki Download the rpmforge-release package. Choose one of…