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Turns out there are plenty (according to Ars Technica) of password “recovery” tools out there. They use graphics cards to do the work. A good example is that with two graphics card, it takes 56 seconds to crack a random 8 character password! Wow, makes you really think about how passwords…

Or Skydrive or Google Drive. The main point is that it lets you easily stick things on your home computer, then an application on your home machine can watch it and do something, so for instance, there are application to run a web site from it, its a good place…

Gizmodo makes a pretty darn good point, it a dSLR can shoot 14 fps at 22MP, then you can use it to shoot short videos. As frame rates rise, maybe you get to the point where it won’t cost $30K to shoot a fast video…. This is a great example of…

Don’t you ever wish, you could just take a list of top movies and then have the computer figure out how to get them the most inexpensive way. So here are the top action movies by IGN in reverse order Point Break Goldfinger Mr and Mrs Smith Top Gun Casino Royale…

I have used a bunch of camcorders. Starting with the old Hi-8 type, then a hard disk-based camcorder for a while from Sony. For the last few years, I’ve been using my Canon 5D Mark II as a camcorder for kids events which has been ok, but I sure do…

But in reading about at dpreview the camera I got to a bunch of mysterious features that I wonder whether to enable. Highlight Tone Priority and Auto Light Optimizer as well as L ISO. The short answer is that you should disable HTP and ALO and don’t go below ISO 100 and…

Well I’ve been depressed because the specs of the Nikon 800 at 36mp is so much better than the Canon 5D Mark III at 22MP. But I felt much better than reading the latest Popular Photography, although what it says disagrees with most of the internet sources. They claim the…

Unknown error keeps popping up across all my machines. This is a complaint that seems pretty common and there is a magic key incantation to help…This seems to do a complete delete of all the iTunes Match data, so hopeing that it helps!  Dear XXXXX,   Welcome to iTunes Store…

Somehow I found myself doing a wedding shoot. How unqualified can I be, but in doing this, I’ve discovered I need quite a few more special effects and so here is the search: Sepia and Black & White. A trick that many folks use that can make people look way…