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Continue reading →: Hybrids and Fairway Woods 2012
Its getting sunny, so I discovered I like the clubs i got last year thanks to the internet which are: Mizuno JPX-800 set. 4-9 iron plus 44 loft, 6 bounce pitching wedge and 49 loft, 7 bounce gapping wedge (their follow-on the JPX-800HDs are still tops) Adams. 3 Hybrid Taylormade…
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Continue reading →: Home Theater Rude Goldberg
So I’m still working on getting everything right for modern Home Theater and here is the basic problem, you want to get content from any source to any device to any location the device may be, so let’s cover the content, the devices and the locations: Content from Anyone…
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Continue reading →: Home NAS looks like the 1812+
Now that the drive shortage is hopefully ending and you can actually get 4tb drives, it’s time to look again for a look at what NAS to get to be a hot backup for all my pictures, music and movies. Right now I have a 12tb drobo pro attached to…
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Continue reading →: MacBook maintenance
Our oldest MacBooks (technically the model MB466*/A or late 2008) at home are 2.5 years old now and a long way from 2008 when we got them. Here are some of the issues and solutions 1. Dying hard drives. Just a warning they are removable but if you screw them…
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Continue reading →: Canon to Nikon
I’ve had first a Canon 350D six long (at least by technology count) years ago and with an 8MP sensor, it was really remarkable. Then a Canon 5D Mark II for the last four years (also a long time). I switched away painfully from Nikon back then. But now that…
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Continue reading →: Mac Mini Server to Windows 7 Dual Boot
OK, I have am old Mac Mini (late 2010) that has two 500GB hard drives and on DVD. So how do I get it so that one disk is Mac OS X and the other runs Windows 7 Ultimate Edition so that I can run Windows Media Center and get…
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Continue reading →: Home Audio
Well, things are well on the way to getting the home theater up to speed (mainly by using iPad applications and AppleTVs to control things), so now onto home audio. There is also a big change here: Airport Express. This is a $99 device that pushes out just audio. It…
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Continue reading →: eBook and audiobook formats
Now that there is such a wide and broad conversion to electronic books, it makes sense to figure out what format to keep your own DRM-free ebooks (eg, classic books that aren’t copyrighted that you can get from the Gutenberg project for instance). For music, I keep everything in MP3…
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Continue reading →: Going to Canada
Well, with AT&T, for $10 incremental a month, you can get free Canada calling, but be careful the texting and the data are expensive. Make sure to call AT&T and get your phone internationally enabled. Their page is really complicated but when you go overseas, here is what you have…
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Mac mini needs tv on
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Continue reading →: Mac mini needs tv onArgh. What a strange thing. Took me a while to figure this out. It quartz extreme is graphics acceleration For Mac os x. If you boot up a mac mini and the display is off it assumes it is a headless Mac and turns f quartz extreme acceleration. but then…