Seriously trivial thoughts
Ambient-mixer.com has done something incredible: They have recreated the ambient sounds from Harry Potter movies. Now you can feel like you are in the Great Hall, the Gryffindor Common Room or any of the other houses. Wanna ride the Hogwarts Express? The sounds are there. It’s pretty cool how the sounds are an actual mix of …
Somehow the Lightning cable connector tip snapped off inside my girlfriend’s iPad. At first, it seemed impossible to get the broken piece out of the slot since there is nothing to grab onto and the opening is terribly small. A Google search came up with several possible solutions, some of which suggested super-gluing the broken …
My gf got this Nikon lens coffee mug for me as a Christmas present. Quite a conversation piece and even a decent coffee mug!
I rely a lot on Evernote for long-term note-taking. I also use Anylist for things like shopping and other checklists. The problem with both of these is I have to remember to check them. I’ve also tried time-based reminder apps on my phone, but there are a lot of important things on my To-Do list …
Took two weeks off for Christmas and New Years. My gf was only able to take one week, but we made the most of it. We had the entire family gathered for Christmas: Mom and Dad, all five kids with significant others, and amazingly all 11 grandkids! It was a special evening for sure. I …
Been dying to take my 70-200 f/2.8 out for a spin and decided to just take the dogs out in the backyard. Was hoping to get some panned shots of one of them in full stride, but sadly neither the sun nor the dogs were very cooperative. In any event, the lens is spectacular albeit a …
I am totally on board with this concept! I’m sure I’ll find other uses, but I can see this being incredibly useful with fine-tuning Adobe Lightroom parameter adjustments which is problematic using a mouse. The $180US price tag is a bit steep and the estimated shipping isn’t until August 2016, but I’ll be watching this …
I’ve always been pretty obsessive about backing up my computer data. I firmly believe it’s not a question if your hard drive will die, but when it will die. Moreover, I’ve also always believed that in addition to a local backup, you also need an off-site copy as well. I’ve used just about every backup …
Looks like I’ve found the drive for my next NAS: the Western Digital helium-filled 10TB monster! HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive WD subsidiary outs world’s largest normal PMR drive. Seagate eagerly awaits HAMR.
When I bit the bullet and signed up for Microsoft’s Office 365, I was excited that I got a whopping 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage. I immediately stopped using my puny 5GB of free Dropbox space and switched. Well, after testing OneDrive for almost a year, I’ve finally had enough and am switching back to …