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Seems like the rechargeables that we use just keep finding new uses. This is great as (except for the Wii controllers), everything seems to like them. But time to buy some more. Using a combination of Amazon and Thomas Distributing, here are the best buys: Battery charger. I have a…

Well have instability with our old BIOS, but just upgraded our ASUS P8V77-Deluxe and did an update (why does everything require updates all the time). The original nVidia driver also needed an update, so you have to download the beta driver but didn’t have an SLI profile. YOu need the…

Well, the initial reviews of the Canon EOS M are coming in and it looks more and more likely that a move to the E-mount Sony line is coming. Sad that Canon has these kinds of problems, but on the other hand, the 5DII is a pretty amazing camera that…

Well if you are a professional film makers things just got way better. Sony just announced a 4K capable (that is four thousand lines vs HD which is 1080 lines) camcorder that shoots in RAW and does something called global shutter. This means that the entire frame is taken at once…

Wireless speakers. Now that the 30-pin connector is dead, seems like wireless speakers are going to be more and more important. If you just want a local solution then you can use Bluetooth adapters to connect any speaker set Belkin makes one for $25. Airplay actually works better because you can…

Some little tidbits for mac users and iDevices I get back to wanting a nice clean database of my songs. So artwork for each and lyrics for each song. Well this is easier than ever with Lyrical. This one does seem to work. Select a song in iTunes and it adds…

Few quick things about Apple: Well it turns out that the “Fusion” drive technology works old Macs and across any SSD and any hard drive if you create a proper “storage” group with diskutil command line. Also you can use ZFS on top of it. Of course I can’t figure…

Well we are up and running and we are definitely on the bleeding edge right now. Puget Systems has been great answering questions, but this is the kind of thing where there isn’t much out there on the Internet on what is going on and how to make a mineral-bath…

Hope everyone on the East Coast weathers Sandy OK. In the mean time, if you ware wondering how the Caribbean is faring, there is a great site for monitoring what is happening at the ground at stormcarib.com And of the course the National Hurricane Service site is terrific.

Mexico: http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-romantic-hotels/38 How can you go wrong with Paris? http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/romantic-winter-getaways/24 The next James Bond hotel! http://www.tierrapatagonia.com http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/romantic-winter-getaways/17