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While digital means you mainly just share photos, sometimes it is fun to make a photo album during a party. We have a Canon iP100 and it produces incredible quality prints up to A4 or Legal size, but it is slow and the automatic paper feed doesn’t work super well.…

Just a reminder about how to minimize your roaming costs when you are overseas: If you are on Verizon: Sign up for the $25 for 100MB international data plan. Works in most European countries (and China) When you call, use Skype to call the US using the international data. Way…

Been using and playing with virtual machines a lot and it is pretty clear, you benefit from having an SSD and more memory. While the latest macbooks are faster, etc., even a five year old machine still work great. I’m amazed at the quality of the keyboard and the cases…

Bluehost has been good to me, even though expensive at $10/month (can’t believe that is expensive), the only limitation is that it is pretty insecure to use FTP and they don’t like large files (greater than 1GB), so it isn’t the perfect server for everything. And they only allow the…

We are using Mailman for simple lists. And got this peculiar errot What does “message has implicit destination” mean? – Documentation – Confluence 2) The message was BCC’ed (blind carbon copied) to the list, and was actually not addressed to the list directly (not that you can see). If you’re…

Been trying to figure out what to get folks for their birthdays, etc. The default choice is of course an Amazon Gift Cards, but you can do better than that. I usually check Wirecutter for instance as a place to find geek gifts.

Well, I have nearly everything, but our little pen thing broke (which purifies water), so back to the drawing board for something. It is a confusing topic but outdoorgearlab.com has some good advice. There are three kinds of systems: filter, chemical and UV. The net is that a filter doesn’t…

Nearly everyone needs one now, so here’s the free exam and then you mail a form in and $10 and get your certificate.

If you ever need to use a script to remotely copy, mount a dmg and then run a package, here is how to do it Installing packages from the command line – Mac OS X Hints I sometimes need to install updates remotely on a server I maintain. I already…