Apr
09
I am writing this post for the sole purpose of making sure this gets into the Google search engines. I am pretty upset because I have been hit for the 3rd time in 2.5 weeks with this upsetting message: “Visual Voicemail: This phone was associated with a different account. Existing emails will be deleted.” Quite …
Apr
06
I just lost nearly 2 days video editing time because I just now discovered that installing the DivX suite of software cripples Adobe Premiere Elements 9. I uninstalled so much software and reinstalled Adobe Premiere Elements 9 trying to figure out the problem. Not only that, Adobe Premiere Elements 9 kept locking up on me, …
Oct
13
Before I even contacted TubeMogul (a video distribution web service), I suspected that I would be in for sticker-shock. It is always a bad sign when a company offers a free service but then list no prices for the upgraded versions. It is sort of like buying a car with no sticker price. It does …
Jul
15
I recently sent a batch of very old 110 and 126 negatives along with a variety of developed paper photographs collected over the years (some going back over 20+ years) to have them scanned and preserved digitally. Many of my negatives and paper photos were showing signs of age and I decided I better do …
Apr
14
This article first appeared on “The TurnKey Publisher’s Blog” =================== Because of my personal distaste and dismay of the Stock Photo industry which started with the Getty Images Extortion Demand Letter, I have taken steps to personally boycott the Stock Photo Industry and advocate not using stock photos altogether. The stock photo industry seems to …
Mar
16
It has been over a month since I upgraded my “old” Samsung cell phone to the Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip Phone. I wanted to give the phone a good workout before I posted any comments. I have literally waited years for this type of phone to come out. For years, I have been looking for …
Mar
16
I have been following the news on Microsoft Windows 7 and installed it on a backup machine to see what the hoopla was all about. It has gotten a lot of positive buzz on the Internet and I wanted to see if there were truly any differences. Although I did not find dramatic differences, the …
Feb
10
In last year’s review of the original Kindle, I speculated that there would be a Kindle 2.0 and how user feedback would be incorporated into a newer model. I complained about the clumsy side buttons and speculated that there would be improved battery life. It looks like I was right on those two issues. Not …
