Category Archives: Geeky

Camera Shopping

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Tom Long

I want to move up.  I love my point and shoot,  a Sony HX5V,  which I still intend to use as my “in my pack” camera.  But I’m tired of grainy low light pictures from family gatherings.  I think my waterscapes … Continue reading →

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Plus Me

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Tom Long

I’ve been dabbling in Google+ for several days, now. I wanted to share some preliminary thoughts. Pros The integration of Picasa, PicasaWeb (soon to be Google Photos), Google+ mobile photos, and Google+ is a wonderful feature. This is especially true … Continue reading →

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Name That Show

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Tom Long

filebot is a great little utility that has helped me not to miss theRenamer as much I was missing it, when I first got my MacBook Pro. Giving our files consistent names in a format easily used by metadata scrapers … Continue reading →

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iCloud, My Cloud?

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Tom Long

Well, everyone else is talking about it. Why not me? Actually, that’s pretty much all it is until iOS 5 comes out this fall – talk. Apple has announced that they, too, have cloud aspirations for the future of computing. … Continue reading →

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Google v Facebook

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Tom Long

courtesy of Укларочить on Flickr As things currently stand, I think we can say that Google dominates the search market. Bing has scrapped and bought its way to a significant market share, but in search Google rules. As a social … Continue reading →

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