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If you want… Free science fiction audio books, at Librivox.org Latest free audiobooks from Librivox.org by clicking itpc://librivox.org/podcast.xml Nonstick skillets for omelets. I’ve used All Clad for years. Very expensive at $87 a throw and only lasts a few years. Cook’s Illustrated (subscription required) found T-Fal Professional Total Nonstick Fry…

I’m not quite sure why I bought a dedicated Blu Ray player since the PS3 seems pretty much good enough, but since I have one, I get to live with glacial startup times and then it rejects disks all the time because of firmware issues. Anyway, the answer is an…

Well I still have that huge box of 35mm photos that are negatives, slides and prints that have been sitting for five years waiting for me. Finally getting back to it mainly because of this book project. Amazingly the old Minolta 5400 Dimage Elite still works and connects to the…

Some of the coolest gifts are personal. So looking for good Photobooks and there are billion providers it seems. A quick google found a great review and for quality (and price) they like adoramapix.com. I love Adorama as a general photo site and mpix.com is the other site I’ve meaning…

Here are the tricks as I had a major outage… 1. Reboot the router and cable modem and if you have an Apple router, use the Airport Utility to see if it is up and what it is complaining about. If the internet is down, it will complain or say…

Turns out that modern TVs have the equivalent of lag because they are processing the image. I’ve never noticed but Calvin did. If you dig through the guts of the Samsung TV menu, there is a mode called Game Mode which disables a bunch of the processing. You lose a…

This means you mistyped your password too many times. It is obscure what to do, but Apple says go to a magic URL http://iforgot.apple.com/ which doesn’t appear on any user interface like the iTunes store or your iPhone and reset your password ;_0

Tried to buy a ticket on jetblue.com, but it connects to verifiedbyvisa.com and then it fails on Safari. You need to use Chrome and it works. Also jetblue.com won’t select preferred seats correctly on Firefox on the mac on the second seat. Man sometimes things can get so buggy!

When Apple decided that users shouldn’t know about a file system, they basically made it impossible to move a simple thing like an iMovie project around. Here is the workaround. You have to look for the iMovie Events and iMovie Projects directory and move the stuff in there. How wierd…

Nothing like a little romance and a proposal and what a way to do it all. Technology does rock :-0 See frankandkasey.com. Someone once told me you can never say, “never or always”. While that is probably true, I believe what my buddy John told me which is that, that is…