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What to do for the guy who has everything? Order them some incredible foods over the internet of course. We are big farm-to-table types and love local stories, so collectiong from gear patrol, esquire and other fork & steve, here are some recommendations: La Frieda. In Bergen County, they had…

Was just talking to a new grad and realized this credit card and credit score thing is filled with disinformation and confusing… So if you are new to credit here are the three things to do to maximize your credit score Get free credit cards as soon as possible. I’d…

Wow, it used to be basically impossible to get more than the typical credit card discount (1 point or about 2 cents per mile), but now here are some nice offers because credit cards are getting competitive, in order, if you use Amazon: Amazon Prime Store Card. This gives you…

Well the biggest problem are lots of passwords and the solution are password managers but what if password managers get hacked or have vulnerabilities? Or are closed source? Sadly both the managers I’ve used have both.  Lastpass. I switched away last year because their site was compromised and more importantly…

This is actually a really fun feature on the iPhone 6s Plus. you can see a mini movie next to each still. There are a few tricks: While you can export these out to the real world, you get a JPG and a MOV file and these do not import…

Well I have a bunch of big panoramas and I normally use Hugin to process them. But it seems to have trouble on El Capitan and also apparently you know need to install a separate tool called autopano-sift-c to get control points to work properly but this didn’t seem to…

I wrote a script on this but of course I forgot how it all works. The brief summary is that there is a new encryption scheme that is supposed to be better than RSA called elliptical encryption using a curve handily named ED25519. It needs at least OpenSSL 5.7 or…

Well the phone wars don’t seem to be ending soon. We have 10GB+1GB for $80 and now this is down to 12GB for $80 in the new Verizon Plan, so what’s not to lose. The big change is that they are debundling purchase, so the access charge is down to…

Well bluehost used to be so inexpensive, but like all service, they gradually ratchet the price. Domain registration used to be $5 then $8 and now $15 for basically doing nothing. I’ve been meaning to look at alternatives and namecheap.com seems like a decent choice. They have a lost cost…

I have to say that sometimes I like the “small” release without lots of issues. El Capitan is one of them. Only problem I’ve seen so far is that Private Internet Access needs an update.  But the new Side by side is pretty cool as are some of the gestures…