Category Archives: Geek Stuff

A Sad Day

There is some good news first, this is the first time I have posted to the blog from iPad. I’m using the keyboard with the stand and it works very well (yes, the hardware keyboard supports the dvorak layout for … Continue reading

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All About the Gear

I’ve decided to get an iPad, a few people in the office have them and I’m impressed with both the screen and the Kindle App. I bought a Sony PSP so I could watch movies while traveling without booting up … Continue reading

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Ghetto Steadicam

On a late friday night I look to this blog’s draft bin for inspiration. My Marketing Over Coffee host Christopher Penn recently plugged this article on making a $7 camera stabilizer. It reminded me of an article I had read … Continue reading

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Genius is Genius

I had resisted installing the Genius function in iTunes since it had first come out. The idea of sending all my metadata over to Cupertino seemed to be a lot more for their benefit than mine (a mountain of business … Continue reading

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How to Record a Phone Interview

Even though I said I was taking November off, I’m back again. A friend asked me about recording a phone interview and I wrote so much that I thought it would be a shame not to get a post out … Continue reading

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Garmin 305 vs. Nike+

Seth Godin’s post on dashboards reminded me that I have yet to post on switching from Nike+ to the Garmin 305. After about a year and a half of using the Nike+ system I’m now using a Garmin 305. The … Continue reading

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HD Video

Here’s my first shot with the HD Video Camera, a Canon Vixia HD30. It was a classic software project – I got the camera, but I had to update to iMovie ’09 so the file format would be recognized, and … Continue reading

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Playing with the Kindle

I was messing around last night trying to see what a Kindle graphic novel might look like: This really didn’t work, I had the PDF from a DVD that Marvel used to sell, but the two page spread is too … Continue reading

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TiVo using Bonjour

This will only be of interest to the most hardcore video geeks (perhaps only half of the readers here). I just upgraded to the latest version of TivoToGo – the program that gets TV shows off my TiVo and on … Continue reading

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Tennis Valentine

As a teenager I spent many hours on the tennis court, both playing and teaching. I played a bit in college where I finally burned out after a year, but I still play once in a while. Last month Carin … Continue reading

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