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Continue reading →: mac: Like little stones, great UtilitiesFor some reason, Medium seems to be filled with these little articles about Mac apps and widgets. They are mainly identical (which is why I discontinued my Medium subscription and get most of my content from Mastodon and Reddit these days), but here are some of the great utilities I…
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Continue reading →: home: SmartHome architecture 2025 and will AI save it?We are finally so close to unifying the many systems in a house that I can taste it. If you think of the homes of say 2000, here are the systems and controls which you can see if you imagine you are coming home with every possible bell and whistle…
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Continue reading →: Mac: HDR for your MacOS and iOS devicesGetting High Dynamic Range (HDR) on your MacOS and iPhone is really complicated. TL;dr is that on your iPhone use the dedicated NetFlix and YouTube applications. On the MacOS, twiddle Safari Develop Experimental Features to turn on VP9 while on Battery and disable Video battery optimization. And yes, I don’t…
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Continue reading →: pt4: ChatGPT4 miracle for education and programmingWhat an amazing time actually using ChatGPT4, try the prompt, “how do I use Apple Motion to disassemble and reassemble a box”. Or “Use ROS2 to have a robot drive in a rectangle around Seattle, Washington”. Beware of what happens if GPT4 jail breaks itself and what a Red Team…
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Continue reading →: home: Robovacs the Roborock S8+ or S7 MaxVWell, I was about to get a Roborock S7 as the best choice for Apple Home-enabled vacuum cleaner. I actually ordered it from Walmart and then returned it when I discovered the Roborock S8 was announced at CES. It does seem like there are so many improvements happening right now…
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Continue reading →: pod: Zoom lag and OBS Virtual camera hang and dimOK, we had a great podcast session today, and here are the big lessons The Tweaks: 4K Zoom integration is awesome when it works but beware hands and Lag Almost all the issues are now with the OBS to Zoom integration, but the big ones are: Fixing the lag in…
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Continue reading →: pen: Notebooks redux and Sidekick
Well, 3-5 years ago, I went deep into fountain pens and also buying high-quality paper and I don’t think I blogged about it, but I used Wirecutter and Pen Addict to buy a few and here’s a review of what I got all good: So here are the ones I’d…
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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro High-Quality Media eating the entire driveOK, I don’t completely understand what is going on with Final Cut Pro, but I have eight videos of about an hour each and I keep running into the dreaded “Disk Full” messages. So here is what I’ve done:
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Continue reading →: Pod: Remastered podcasts are all up!This is just part of learning the system but I republished the remastered versions that bump the SDR pieces to pseudo HDR with HDR Tools. They look pretty good in my iPhone which is awesome! The regrading causes Final Cut Pro to hang for several minutes as it renders away…
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Continue reading →: vid: Regrading SDR to HDR at how many nits.Ok, this has been a really confusing topic that I have to keep reminding myself how it works. But basically, a nit or more properly cd/m^2 Is a measure of how bright a screen is. SDR or standard definition has a range of basically 0 to 100 nits. But high…
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