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Well got to go to Pax Prime. Man, I had no idea it was such a cool event so close to us. Anyway, need to go there from now on. The gaming section on the 4th floor of the convention center is terrific. Crowded though so you probably just have…

Not quite sure what model, but it is an old Time Capsule, I think 2nd generation, in any case, just beware that there is a strange bug with 7.6.1 firmware. If you want to do 5GHz mode, you need to set it to 802.11n (a compatible), if you set it…

Well this has gotten way easier. If you have an AT&T iPhone and it is off contract (e.g., two years since you bought it), here is how you get it unlocked so it will work with any carrier (eg T-Mobile or you can use it overseas with a different SIM):…

Well, it is great Apple is spending so much time on iPhone, iPads and maybe a little on MacBooks and AppleTV, but sadly, that leaves much of the promise of home networking in the dust. With Airport Extremes and Time Capsules kind of forgotten and a sea of not so…

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…