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Preordering the Canon 5D Mark II

September 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, you don’t get any discounts, but a few places now have it for the $2700 list price… according to unwir3d.com which include Ritz Camera ($2699 body),Calumet Photographic ($2699 body), Wolf Camera ($2699 body, $3499 kit) and J&R ($2699 body, $3499 kit)

Amazon and Adorama are not. The price is $2700 body only and $3500 including [...]

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Canon 5D Mark II

September 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve never preordered anything, but I am sure tempted with the Canon 5d Mark ii. It is available in November, but the rumor is that the demand is amazing. Preorders now at photographybay.com
Byt preorders have been turned off at Adorama and Amazon already!

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Lyrics and Artwork on the Mac

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve tried a bunch of tools. Pearlyrics is gone thanks to the RIAA, it was great because it would go through your whole set of songs. All the rest just do the current playing song and most are widgets now:

“Harmonic:http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/2035. This seems to work the best. Listens to the current song and plugs the lyrics [...]

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The perfect home theater system using Macbook’s

September 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geek

Been experimenting with the Macbook’s as a way to drive a home theater. it is actually quite awesome what you can do assuming you really want something easy to use. Here is what I’ve found:

MacBook Pro’s has DVI and can convert to VGA. With older televisions (like my 10 year old Mitsubishi 73903) that have [...]

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2 port USB car charger and power inverter

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’m such a nerd, right now, I need no less than six car chargers in my car. Here is what I need:

Escort 9500i. This actually has a dedicated cord that attaches to its own charger. Shame on them for not just using 5V, but OTOH, it works super well I have to say. There is [...]

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B+W 77mm Circular Polarizer Slim Lens Cap

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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Clickz on Ad Placements

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hat tip to Bill on this one, a good source of overview information that shows the size of the internet advertising business. Clickz which is mainly from Neilson Online (really Netratings). Some tidbits:

  • Web Media (what ever that is?) is largest at 74B impressions per month
  • Financial services is the largest segment I understand at [...]

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Compact Cameras

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

For years I’ve used the Fuji Finepix F10 which took really great pictures with 5Mpixels but most importantly was fast enough to take ISO 400 photos. That camera still works really well but is not pretty big. Ideally you want a shirt pocket camera that:

8MP sensor and lense quality so you can get A3+
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Downtown Seattle Restaurants

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Seattle

Well, I said you could spend a year exploring downtown Seattle restaurants for lunch. Here’s a sampling of the latest so far in the definitely go there again. As a sampling of where to find reviews, Gayot.com and The Stranger I’d add to my list. The Gayot Top 10 is pretty good.

Steelhead Diner is [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-04-29

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Tunewiki on iPhone rocks. Hanging out and we all love it. Syncs lyrics to your iPhone songs. As fun as TTR #
Construction looks good. Unimark rocks as does Pine Street Group and Albee Romain! #
Lunch at copacabana. Great lamb! Cool amazon fruit drink. #

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