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Continue reading →: Mac: making iCloud+ Sharing work and iPhone Activation flakinessOk one issue with Apple iCloud+ is that there’s a limit of six family members (family size-ists!) So we had to create two families and have some duplicate IDs. This family sharing is pretty odd and requires three steps to get going: This took an entire day to get this…
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Continue reading →: tech: Transients suck of Mac Proxy at port 41000 or do and B80587C2 blue screen of death on HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw and ChatGPT is not usefulWow sucky transient problems are the worst. Here are my two of the week… Mac Browsers stopped working As really strange problem. But the jynenety worked fine but not of the browsers did. Safari, Firefox and Chrome all reported no connection and a proxy problem. When I get these I…
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Continue reading →: pod: YouTube Podcast meta data confusionWell, I just spend an day remastering all our podcasts because heck, the colors were bothering me, they look great thanks to the use of HDR Tools and Apple HEVC 10-bit and it only took 2 hours to process this whole mess (so we are running at over 30 fps…
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Continue reading →: vid: The confusion that is a 4K Video HDR WorkflowJust like finally getting a great HDR still image workflow, getting one for video is just as challenging, with the camera setup, I have a special Spyder calibrator with DisplayCal and then getting out true 14-bit RAW output and then using DxO and other systems to get RAW output as…
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Continue reading →: dt3: GPT4 and SVB, The Best of Times, The Worst of TimesOk, Deon and Tong’s Third Podcast or maybe Exhaustion cast is a better name. YouTube in 4K HDR Glory Sorry for the continuing video issues, we are recording this in 4K HDR, so if you want to see it in high definition glory, you need an HDR capable screen (like…
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Continue reading →: pod: Streamlined workflow v1.2 and OBS and Zoom bugsOK, if you can believe it, I’m now doing four podcasts a week. Ok, two are private “video journals”, but still that’s a lot of videos. In the course of this, I’ve learned how to crash OBS and Zoom (a lot!) and how to bring a 64GB M1 Pro Max…
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Continue reading →: tax: HSA and IRA Contribution no brainersIf you can, you should make your Health Spending Account contributions. They are $3650 for 2022 (or so) and $3850 for 2023 for individuals. Basically, this is pre-tax money you put into an account and then you can actually invest this money, so if you are just starting out, then…
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Continue reading →: PT3. SVB Nightmare and ChatGPT DreamsThis was written in the deep despair of dealing with the SVB Closure. It still has some great tips on how to make sure your money is safe, but thankfully as I’m sure most of you know the Treasure Department stepped in to get a full return of capital to…
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Continue reading →: pod: OBS Audio Filters, Final Cut Pro HDR and Google Drive backupsOK, we just had another good podcast session and it seems like there are always more notes to take, but dividing the tips for the novice Podcast person, so starting from the top, here is what I’ve learned OK, so our workflow is not OBS which feeds Zoom with a…
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Continue reading →: dt2: Fueling your Startup with Great InvestorsThis is our second attempt at this and we’ve discovered that Zoom can get into a mode where it is just very slow but a complete reboot seems to help. We also have a host of tricks with OBS, but see what you think. YouTube Video Podcast The Podcast version…
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