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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…

A wonderful person, good bye Eleanor

This Akamai junk is a peer to peer downloader that Adobe uses, causes all kinds of nasty interactions with the firewall as random machines try to access your computer. Uninstall is the answer! It’s not easy, there is no visible graphical uninstall program, but googling shows you the command line you…

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Well Alex’s LG GU280 is hung on the “Please wait…” screen. You can BTW on an LG phone only figure out the model number by typing in the FCC ID into Google. Absolutely no markings on the shell.  

Well I can’t buy wine (the 2009 Bordeauxs!) or new camera equipment because I’m out of budget for this year 🙁 But that doesn’t mean on Black Friday, I can’t want some cool things. So if you are generous this holiday season for the dedicated amateur geek who wants cool…