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Our marketing playbook has 2,000 spam users. Added  before we put captcha on. And the system still allows 2-3 users a day who are breaking through captcha (so I turned off new user adds) and I need to get rid of everyone. Here’s how…but becareful because if you set it…

Now that I’ve been doing a lot more processing of digital photos, it is pretty apparent that the ability to take a zillion photos at once is really changing getting around the dynamic range and optical limitations. Here are some of the tricks that you can do with your computer,…

Wow cool, Blackmagic is doing a pocket cinema camera that will shoot raw 1080p with a micro 4/3 (actually it is a super 16 imaging area 12.5×7.4mm). It is $995. That means it is capturing 220Mbps. Pretty amazing. A big boost for micro-4/3 is a nice video camera. Technically compared…

What a strange consumer experience Sony has managed to cobble together. Super confusing. We are just trying to buy and download games on a PS Vita. Here is what you have to do: They have two totally different login and management systems at playstation.com and sonyentertainment.com. Sony Entertainment seems to…

Mac’s are just different enough it is hard to make this work. Sphinx generate documentation, but as usual, even with the vanilla Python 2.7 on every Mac, you have to install a lot of scaffolding, the easy way is to just type “sudo easy_install -U sphinx” but this uses non-SSL,…

YouTube rocks. What a video series!

Been looking for a easy to use camera that works on an IP network. This is far harder than it looks. What I’d like is a system that works in Wifi, ow light, is reliable enough for 24/7 monitoring and can monitor remotely (eg outside the house) and can record…

We’ve been debating which is the right next generation camera. With Bob opting for Fuji, Rennie for Olympus and John for Samsung. But maybe this is the tiebreaker? It does seem to have every feature under the sun: Sony NEX-6 Review: Digital Photography Review Sony NEX-6 specification highlights 16.1MP APS-C…

It is always so hard to keep up with the Joneses. First it’s hard to spell, second, you have to acquire a lot of loot (or debt!) to do it: The average American household owns 2.3 vehicles The average number of children in families is 1.86 The average number of…