This category intends to explore any knowledge item that is tied to current or future technology.
I am in the middle of editing a wedding movie. I plan to offer the client three separate movies: Short ceremony Long ceremony Reception. I make a DVD movie after each step. I finished the long ceremony movie and play it to my test audience. I had no record or playback problems. I was told to clean up an audio track by one person. I made the recommended change and then save that movie. That part of the project, long…
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I was utterly blown away with The Ultimate Nikon SLR Handbook 2014 “magazine” that I found at Barnes & Noble book store (April 2014). It is published by Zino. The stunning magazine images and graphics coupled with concise explanations, for me, simply works in a most astonishing way. I could not believe that in one page of image and text that some complex photographic concepts could be simplified so nicely. The Nikon SLR cameras are not all that simple to…
Something rather curious has been taking place at one of the AT&T old POTS (plain old telephone service) box resting on a major street sidewalk. AT&T trucks have been parked on the street just next to this box working on it for over two months (currently not finished as of June 18, 2012). I stopped by and asked what was going on. It seems that the U-verse system might be suffering from bad cabling from the old POTS system, that…
Quite some time ago my wife happened to mention to me that our electric bill seemed to be rather high. This was during summer and I suspected the air conditioner was on too much of the time. Being a technology person, I decided to purchase a meter that would measure power usage for each household device in an effort to more scientifically determine what devices were running up the cost and determine if we could cut back. I learned quite…
When I purchased my new Toshiba Satellite laptop a few years ago I got an incentive deal to have Kaspersky Anti Virus software installed on my computer from Best Buy. The deal sounded sweet but my son, an IT student, said I was nuts because Windows 7 had pretty good anti virus protection. I had already agreed to the minimal introductory cost. Then January 17, 2012 I get an automatic renewal notice warning me that I am to be charged…
