1. The user interface is a bit wierd, but you have to go to File/Configure first and make sure that the file names are set right. Plex and other applications really need to see the right directory structure to work correctly and prefer to see the TV Shows in separate directories and also the season and episode numbers in the titles. So in the File name field, you have to incant because the defautl which just has the show and episode title and the date of recording is useless.

[SeriesTitle][/][SeriesTitle] – [EpisodeNumber] – [episodetitle]

2. The thing has transcoding built in and you run the background applications to do this.

This requires using the Terminal app, in your Applications/Utilities folder

 

To turn off Time Machine snapshots type in the following command:

 

sudo tmutil disablelocal

 

The Mac will likely ask for your password, so type it in and hit the return key. The type the word, exit and hit return. Quit Terminal.

• Incandescent. The original, cheapest but last the last
• Halogen. More efficient and last long. About $5 a bulb
• CFL. If you don’t have a dimmer, this is the one for you.
• LED. These are supposed to last years and years, personally, I’ve had bunches of early failures with them, so maybe not worth the $40 a bulb

When you pick them, try to get the lowest wattage you can stand, usually 75-90 watts and the 130 volt ones last much longer (5000 hours vs 2500 typically), so that essentially halves their cost.

Other issue is the beam width, there is spot, flood and wide flood. Flood is the normal case.

Besides home depot, I’ve also ordered from 1000bulbs.com, so we see how they do with the Sylvania 14577 90 watt, 5000 hour, flood for about $5 each. 

Installing the BU-30 Bluetooth Adapter

It is an extra $30, but worth it because then there is no USB wire needed, but it comes with instructions on installation at all and this is one thing Google doesn’t lead you to. It is buried deep in the electronic manual. Amazingly, this is some sort of strange help application that has to be installed. It isn’t a PDF. But here is the excerpt on how to slide out the side panel and stick the think into a USB slot that is buried in the machine. The photos don’t print either, but here is the text of the online application

Remove the Side Panel from the side of the AC adapter connector

(1) Insert a screwdriver or something similar into the hole on the side of the printer as illustrated bellow.

(2) Unlock the end of the Side Panel by moving the screwdriver that was used in Step (1) as illustrated bellow.

Do not bend the Side Panel too far; otherwise, the Side Panel may be broken.

(3) Slide out the Side Panel as illustrated below.

Detach the Side Panel carefully not to break the Side Panel protrusion.

Attach the Bluetooth unit.

Align the head of the Bluetooth unit to the Bluetooth Unit Connector with the “Canon” logo at the front and then insert the Bluetooth unit until the line  can be seen as illustrated below.

Attach the Side Panel to the printer.

(1) Fit the five protrusions on the back of the Side Panel, and then slide the Side Panel as illustrated below.

(2) Fit the Side Panel protrusion into its corresponding hole on the printer.

Make sure that the whole Side Panel is correctly attached to the printer.

Printer paper profiles

 When you ask Photoshop to manage colors for the Canon iP100 on your Mac, you get a bunch of inscrutable profiles with three letter codes. Here’s the decoding. Make sure the photos are done in Adobe (1998) color profile by the way before you use this. So in general for great photos, you want the 3 version of each and it sounds like it should work with GL3 which is their latest glossy. Or if you can afford it their very fancy PR3, Photo Paper Pro. You should also set the thing for Relative Colormetric and Black Point compensation as well.

• PR3, 2, 1
• GL1, 2, 3
• SP2/SG2
• SP3/SG3

Here’s the decoder:

MP = Matte Photo Paper
PR = Photo Paper Pro
SP = Photo Paper Plus Glossy
GL = Photo Paper Plus Glossy II
SG = Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss

Numbers appended to the name, e.g. Canon Pro9000 PR1 or Canon Pro9000 GL3, refer to the print quality, with 1 the highest quality.

Printer Cartridges and Paper

I need to test it, but we need to print about 300 images and there is no where on the web that says how much you get a from a set of their PGI-35 and CLI-36 cartridges. You can get a value pack of two black and one color for about $33 which is a pretty good deal. And the color one is about $14. After all that searching, Amazon seemed to have the best prices.

Anyway, the regatta was fun and had time to look at some cool nautical terms:

• Ropeyarn. A term from Sunday’s off when sailors would mend their clothes with “rope yarn”
• Bitterend. The end of the rope attached to a bitter (a knob of wood on an old ship)
• Coxswain. Swain means a keeper and a cock was a small boat kept on British ships.
• Carry on. Means to that when the wind is group, to drop all the sails to take full advantage
• Devil to pay. The devil is the long seam of the ship and pay is the ptich used to seal it. Dirty work in other words.
• Ditty bag. Originally a ditto bag and referred to the days when it was used to carry two of everything.
• Fathom. from the old english means faetm (Anglo Saxon means embracing with your arms). The six feet is about the distance of outstretch hands.
• Horse latitudes. 30-40 degree north latitude in the Carribbean where the winds would die and (sadly) horse transported on board would have to be thrown overboard to conserve water.
• Mind your Ps and Qs. On pay day, the number of pints and quarts you drank at the local tavern was deducted from your pay. 

1. Picture Frame. I’ve always wanted to be able to easily push photos to the parents of the kids and have them get it automatically. It takes some work for the sender, but with one button you can do it. Here is the process. Create an iCloud account, use it to the run the iPad. Then create a separate account on your Mac for your mom and turn on Photostream. Then you just drag the photos you want into the Photostream and they will automatically appear. I just wish that the iPad would automatically go to slideshow mode. This happens with the AppleTV which is great. Net, net, you get pictures on your TV an don your ipad.
2. FaceTime. Just like star trek, I’ve always wished that from the picture frame, it would just ring and you could just say, “Spock here”. We are not exaclty there, you still have to hit a button, but otherwise you are pretty close The main challenge is that it requires a Mac (there is no PC FaceTime), so I may swap this for Skype. But FaceTime definitely does work in full video mode.
3. AppleTV with iPad as remote. With the iPad, this is an easy way to have a remote control so that they don’t have to figure out too much. With the new Airplay Mirroring, this is wonderful way to get started there.

The channel selection is pretty key as well

1. Netflix. They really do have an easy to use application that you can just click on to view which is neat. 
2. Xfinity TV. Another pretty easy to use applications.

The big change was to take away most of the icons, so that they only see FaceTime, Safari, Mail and Photos on the bottom and then a collection of TV channels on the top.

But apparently, if you’ve run a car relatively slowly or just for a short period, then the gasoline (which is injected behind the valves and then it flows into the piston) builds up behind the valve and they stick open.

When this happen, the start motor spins, but since the valve(s) are stuck open, there is no compression. The preventive fix is:

1. Make sure to run the car regularly and get it up to high operating temperature so that the gas burns cleanly

2. If you have this condition where the starter spins and there is no turning over, then make sure your battery is good and has lots of charge and you then have to push the gas pedal down and crank for a long time, this puts lots of fuel in and hopefully, the valve will then unstick.

3. Be careful when it starts though as you will have the engine racing along, not to mention buckets of fuel in the car. When the AAA started it finally, there was lots of smoke from the unburned fuel and plenty of raw fuel coming out of the exhaust!

I think I’ll soldier on with the Canon 5D Mark II for a little and see what happens, so the focus turns into three directions:

• New lenses. The only one on the docket right now is an 85MM either the really expensive but amazing F/1.2 or the less cool but probably more practical F/1.8
• A second camera. Maybe the answer is that instead of thinking of just one primary camera, the D800 or the D3200 is just a second camera, then since these cameras are so fast, you really don’t need that many lenses anymore to cover the world particularly with their high speed and the lense optics correction. So if the D3200 is really good, the ideal lense set would be the D3200 plus the Nikon 18-200 or the D800 plus the 70-200 F/2.8. Depends on how good the D3200 is.
• Blackmagic. Canon sells a $10K camera that does 4K lines, but Blackmagic has announced a 2.5K line camera for $3K that uses Canon lenses which is great.
• Fuji X1-Pro. People have been raving about this and its ilk. Basically, dSLR quality in a small rangefinder like camera. This is the biggest open area because it also has Sony NEX, Nikon 1 Series and a bunch of others.