When it launched a few weeks ago, Google Health received fairly lackluster reviews. Privacy issues and lack of features were the main complaints. Well, I’m here to tell you those initial views are wrong.
Even if you’re a long-time reader of my site, you may not know what qualifies me to make that statement, so let [...]
Please be sure to read through my updates to the post below, made after being contacted by an Elgato representative. Scroll to the end to see them all.
The latest version of the Turbo.264 software from Elgato (version 1.3 build 294), issued a few days ago, is buggy, and will mess up your converted movies. Not [...]
» Go to this postThat’s the going price for premium gasoline (93 octane) in these parts (Bethesda, MD). Back when I advocated the use of a heavy gasoline tax three years ago, I had $4-5 per gallon in mind, but I envisioned about $2 of that to be the actual tax itself.
What we’ve got now is a puny 14 [...]
A couple of months ago, I had a crazy idea, which I thought might just work: get a 1080p HDTV, a really nice one, and use it as my computer monitor. The advantage: cheaper and bigger than 30″ LCD monitors. I also found a model that I thought couldn’t be beat — one that displayed [...]
» Go to this postPlease accept my apologies for the several recent outages on this and my other sites. During the past week, my sites have had 5 extended outages, each lasting anywhere from 1 to 10 hours, and all due to the unbelievable incompetence of 1and1’s web admins. Somehow they’ve managed to screw things up so badly that [...]
» Go to this postThis screencast will show you how to transfer photos between different Lightroom catalogs, and it will go beyond that by also demonstrating how the whole process could be made a LOT easier if Adobe wanted to.
In the screencast, I refer to an article I wrote a while back, entitled “The next stage for Lightroom“, where [...]
Ligia and I took a mini-vacation this past weekend and flew down to Florida to see my parents. You might remember it as the place where I feel most at home here in the States.
We left our cozy little apartment last Friday morning, and in a couple of hours, thanks to the amazing convenience of [...]
How do you handle a corrupted previews catalog in Adobe Lightroom? How do you identify the problem and solve it? I will show you exactly how to do it in this short screencast.
Click on the screenshot below to view or download the video. It’s 720p HD (1280×720 pixels). I messed up (slightly) in the video [...]
I put together a short screencast in order to illustrate the problems that can arise as one adds functionality (customizes) their WordPress install, and WordPress builds that same functionality into its new versions (standardizes).
Click on the screenshot below to view or download the video. It’s 720p HD (1280×720 pixels), so your computer may not be [...]
The mStand is quite possibly the best stand for the MacBook Pro line of laptops. It raises the laptop to an appropriate height, it does not block any of the MBP ports or buttons, its design is truly distinctive, its cast aluminum build matches the MBP line to a tee, and it is reasonably priced [...]
» Go to this postI’ve been having problems with meta-data entry in Lightroom, particularly the location meta-data. It’s not my computer that’s to blame. The problems exist on both the PC and Mac versions of Lightroom, although they’re more apparent on the Mac version.
When I first mentioned this on Twitter and Friendfeed (see here, here and here) I promised [...]
If you follow along with my classic movie reviews, you may think I have only good things to say about them. Truth is, I don’t usually choose to write up movies I don’t like. But I’ve recently seen three classic movies that were so bad I needed to point them out. I’ll look at each [...]
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