I received a text message from a friend earlier today in a panic; an old hard drive that he used for storage isn’t responding when plugged in, and it’s the drive that he uses for all of his photography backup needs. Here’s how to a) trouble-shoot a dead drive and b) how to back up [...]
It’s no secret that I love hardy little video cameras. The GoPro Hero, the Contour, the Sony ActionCam and the JVC ADIXXION are all models that can take a punch… and they’re all evolving. So far this month we’ve seen the new GoPro Hero 3, and today we’re taking a look at the Contour [...]
I love Fuji’s X-series; they’re incredibly powerful cameras with a gorgeous retro aesthetic. And unlike the big two and all the other also-rans, Fuji’s actually doing something different in the mid-to-high-end space. You can get a cool camera that takes amazing pictures, with a look that almost no one else has. While you won’t pay [...]
Let’s be clear from the start: if the idea of a $2000+ single-cabinet speaker offends you, you should probably stop reading. If your first thought is to tell me how you can get “the same sound” from a cheaper set of speakers, then I really only have one message for you: this blog, and this [...]
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I got some strange looks from friends when I went about mounting the TomTom VIA 1435TM GPS to my window. One actually said “What’s that for, you’ve got a smartphone?” After using the TomTom for six weeks to navigate up and down the west coast I can safely say this: Phones are for calling. GPS [...]
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It’s that time of year again: even those who have AC find themselves heading to storage closets to extract dusty fans, only to find that these noisy old devices are stuck firmly in the 20th century, and that they don’t do a very good job of the one thing they’re meant to do: help cool [...]
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Thinking back nearly a decade I can remember my first digital camera: a Canon Digital ELPH S100. It was the first mass-market digital camera that really took off, and at the time it felt like it had it all: compact size, a 2x optical zoom, took Compact Flash cards (vastly superior to “Smart” media cards… [...]
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There is at this time, in my mind, one vacuum manufacturer to rule them all: I’ve owned competing brands (they found their way to Craigslist eventually) in both upright and handheld. I put up with the borderline horrendous suction of a central vac for years. I put up with dust and dirt that just didn’t [...]
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Turtle Beach hits the shelves this week with another offering in their line of wireless specialty gaming headphones with the EarForce PX5. As an existing EarForce customer (I own the X41) I was excited to get my hands on this revamped model. As an owner of both an Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 [...]
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In a world populated by iPhones and Flip cameras we’re starting to see video captured in more places. For the adventuring set–those that like to climb mountains, sky dive, hurl themselves down hills on thin layers of material or a pair of wheels (and I count myself among the most timid of this number) there [...]
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