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Continue reading â: Finding your IP address on a Mac
Find your IP Address on a Mac You can find your IP address from the Mac System Preferences: From the Apple menu pull down “System Preferences” Click on the “Network” preference pane Your IP address will be visible to the right Find your IP Address on a Mac Launch the…
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Continue reading â: Figuring out what is sitting on your port
Mac OS X: find the program running on a port « databasically // Kansas City Small Business IT && Ruby on Rails Programming Sometimes, there’s a program running on a port and you don’t know what it is. How do you find out? I find this happens when I…
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Continue reading â: Find which program is sitting on a port…
Mac OS X: find the program running on a port « databasically // Kansas City Small Business IT && Ruby on Rails Programming Sometimes, there’s a program running on a port and you don’t know what it is. How do you find out? I find this happens when I…
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Continue reading â: Where is all my Mac disk space?
Somehow, there is a curious fact that sometimes with Get Info or Disk Utility, you see that you are almost out of disk, but when you go to the Finder, it looks likes things are fine. What is going on? Apple has a new feature with Time Machine Backups where…
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Continue reading â: Readers
Seems like everyone is doing reading on electronics now. So the question is what is the best reader. In looking at reviews, for general purpose tablets, it does look like the ipad mini is a great form factor. The main issue is that the ipad mini 2 is coming out…
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Continue reading â: PCIe and Thunderbolt 2 make things simpler
What a convergence we are seeing in the PC world. The world used to be filled with lots of different buses (serial, parallel cables, IDE, PCI) but as performance has increased the world has converged around serial buses (because it when things go really fast it is hard to make…
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Continue reading â: Best photographic review sites
Scott and i have been getting super nerdy about reviews and image quality. It turns out that figuring out resolution of a camera is incredibly difficult and depends quite a bit on sharpening. If you use JPEG, then there are lots of settings and all cameras need some sort of…
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Continue reading â: Canon lense tests for the 100-400mm F/5.6
I haven’t seen many tests of this lense and lensrentals.com and photozone.de are one of the few shops that shows the results. Here they are shot at a standard Imatest distance of 18 feet. As an aside, the big question is what he is really measuring. Not too many entries…
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Continue reading â: Sigma rising
Sigma has been really doing a great job lately and the coolest thing now is that you can download firmware into their lenses at home rather than needing a factory adjustmnet LensRentals.com – Photo/video thoughts from the largest rental house I am certain, though, that Sigma Photo, Inc. has changed…
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Continue reading â: Sigma rising
Sigma has been really doing a great job lately LensRentals.com – Photo/video thoughts from the largest rental house I am certain, though, that Sigma Photo, Inc. has changed a lot in that time. Truth is, they’re making serious waves in the photo industry these last few years. They’ve improved their…