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Well iMovie 7 in iLife ’11 (is that confusing or what!) has been remarkably stable as I’ve produced things (not like iLife 08), but here are some of the quirks: 1. If you are really a power nerd, you want every frame to match up. At the playhead there is…

End of school year and everyone seems to want movies. Here are the latest tips. I had to actually make a DVD. Hadn’t dont that in a long time. iDVD in iLife ’11 is about the same, so Apple isn’t spending much time on this. I’d forgotten all about chapter…

Another feature that jumped out is Google has Cloud Print: 1. Cloud print is something that looks like runs on your Mac, PC or Linux machine 2. You can then print from gmail.com on your iPhone for instance by clicking on the a strange option button in the center mid…

Well, despite all the things going on, the little things in life continue to break and need repair, so here’s a list: HDMI Balun or Extender. We have a Tivo in the basement because there isn’t a cable near the TV. Got an HDMI extender, but it keeps blanking and…

I normally keep my photos on a separate Drobo so that it can withstand two hardware failures. I also back this up online with Crashplan so I have an offsite backup. Finally, I periodically take an image and put it on an old Time Capsule as well. So theoretically, I…

Amazon is out doing incredible promotions again. Nice to see the next wave of Internet hype is hitting. In this case, if you act now, you get: Lady Gaga’s new 14 track album in content unprotect MP3s for just $.99 You get 20GB of Amazon cloud storage for a year (normally…

Got one of these scary messages about having to recreate everything and here is what I learned is that it appears only with Snow Leopard and what happens is that the backup is marked as bad and you get a choice, lose all your backups or else no more future…

While you could buy a dedicated macro lenses there are so many options with Canon, so there is a good Photos of the Year review which explains the many different options from extension tubes, teleconverters and diopter thingies. Simply put, he recommends getting a 1.4x teleconverter which takes your 70-200 F/2.8…