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Camera recommendations for the Christmas season

October 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, the camera market is definitely maturing, so that now across three of the four major segments there are choices that are going to last a while:
High-end Prosumer for affordable luxury :0)
If you love cameras, then the Canon 5D Mark II looks like the body to drool over. For a long time it was just [...]

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Final decisions on ultracompact cameras: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35 vs. Canon Powershot SD790 IS

September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geek

Well, unless you are going for a pro-grade compact camera like the soon to launch $500 Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3, probably your main criteria is being small and OK pictures which is what you are going to get. Overall, it is interesting how cameras have not improved much from my trusty SD500 and Fuji F11 [...]

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Final Mac Ripping Workflow

September 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

OK, so here is the best way to backup and rip your CD on the Mac:

iTunes-LAME. To rip. So you insert you CD and click on it. , Make sure that iTunes-LAME is set to —alt-preset fast extreme which is most folks think the best tradeoff between compression and CD quality. Now, you want to [...]

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