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Well eventually all cars fail, and what a difficult year it is to buy a new car. There is so much innovation happening in the car business right now, it is hard to believe and so many new models for 2012. So the big decision is essentially, what to do…

Well Im in the middle of a little project to get an HD HomeRun Prime connected to a Mac Mini using Touchpad to control it for watching internet TV and also Comcast. More on that later, but it is pretty cool the way you can use an Ipod Touch or…

Well I supposed it had to happen, I’m getting a print head error on the venerable 8 year old Canon i9900, so what can I do. A new printhead is $125 which we can get as, so what are the other options…well here are some ideas. And this actually did…

With an iPhone there are so many cool applications now. The best traffic one I’ve found is called Waze. Gives you free turn-by-turn navigation and nice UI (compared with GPS Drive which I used to use) and it has traffic, police and accident reports that are user generated.   But…

Well after having gotten various costs like cell phones down quite a bit (they are right now at an all time high as we transition from AT&T to Verizon), but that should be a six month bump. Thank goodness for family plans! But what about content costs, here is where…

Well it’s been two years at least since I’ve a passion for biking, (maybe a little burnout), but would be great to get back to it. Nothing like a little bike lust to get the competitive juices flowing and hopefully get back to it. Here are the big changes since…

Lifehacker has an incredible set of good tips and tricks for computers: Photography. The best one is to download the Magic Lantern firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II. You throw it onto a compact flash card and it turns a decent HD camcorder into a great one. The main…

I’ve always wanted to have the complete setup that includes speakers, projector and the ability to print and make super cool post card books. Now, it looks like I actually need it, so time to look for a great pico projector that is small and lightweight and throws a good…

Well Christmas was wonderful this year and as always, there are some great lessons. First the mundane. Some great gifts that aI saw moving through. Some expensive some not, the: 1. Parrot Ar.Drone. This was listed as the top gift in USA Today. And although pricey and not for kids,…

I don’t use Photoshop very much for fixing photos. I actually like to get the exact image (which is why I spent way too much time with DxO and Spyder3Elite to make sure what the image was appears on the page). But there are times when it makes sense to…