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Well, if you are upgrading a machine, right now here are the choices: ## Video Now you should probably wait a bit as the GTX980 family is (by video standards) long in the tooth and Computex is about to happen in June. The big things are getting to HDMI 2.0…

wow I’m sad to say I’m shocked at how much I’ve spent! 24 projects ordered and waiting  6 projects ordered and waiting, waiting, waitin 12 projects got and liked 1 project got, broke but founder emailed me?!! Amazing! 4 projects got and they had issues  5 project got and didn’t…

Well kickstarter has been a great adventure but it is one of those 20% of the things are complete duds. Since I posted this #8 actually emailed me back?! And offered to fix. Now that’s amazing!!! Here’s a list so far in reverse order of “insults to customers” and lessons…

havent posted cool apps for a while but amazingly useful and well designed apps (at least to me) The first are essentially replacements for services I want to love but can’t: iOS photo deduplicator. Wow iOS and iCloud sharing is so strange. Now all I get are duneed duplicates that…

Well I’ve actually never really understood leasing and car financing, but with cars where you want them for a short while it makes some sense. Particularly where there is technology risk and you want to swap up in a short period without the backend risk of what the car is…

Well why waiting the new Canon 5Ds to try and also for the new Sony A7/9 announcements coming, so since I need to shoot a regatta, seems like a good time to try the Nikon system which seems to have gotten amazing color depth and noise reviews. Not surprising since…

OK, I’ve tried this something like a zillion times (and also for Ubuntu). Here are the mistakes: Do Not use Mac Unetbootin Finally if you try to use unetbootin on the Mac, it has been broken for three years (?!!). The things you have to do manually are to mark the partition…

OK, Maybe I’m getting nerdy (OK maybe more nerdy), but here’s a list of Fuji 35mm film codes from Gastonline.free.fr so you can read the edge codes on the film and map it for later processing or color correction: Superia 100: S-100 Superia 200: S-200 Superia 400 X-tra : S-400 Superia…

Well the world is changing, with so many pixels, I’ve been using Hugin to stitch things together. GoPro just bought autopano and it feels like panoramics are going to be much more common, so what to recommend via Quora: For stitching, there are have been two long time pay choices,…

Wow the new hardware these days isn’t so much about the processor as about the peripherals, here’s what’s in store this year in order of what will warm a power geek’s heart in David Letterman style based on real world speed you will get and when: More out of nVidia.…