Useless message on NBA iOS app
Yesterday, the iOS NBA app wasn’t loading and this useless message appeared. Geez…someone had to actually write the code for that. Amazing.
Great White gets into cage and no one knows if someone is in it!
I don’t hear anyone yelling, “Next!!!” at the end of the video. Also, the correct answer to the question, “Is anyone in the cage?,” is “not anymore.” What kinda of dinky dink outfit is this anyways? How could they be so inept that they didn’t even know if someone should be in the cage?! If …
Rediscovering the iPad Mini 2, thanks to iOS 10
When the iPad Pro 9.7-inch was released, I jumped all over it and upgraded from my iPad Air. Both the Air and my iPad Mini 2 were getting really sluggish and I figured I needed the faster processor. Well, a funny thing happened, after ignoring my iPad Mini 2 for the last six months, I …
J&L-103 Wireless Bluetooth Headphones Review
Vafee, an international e-commerce company located in Hong Kong, sent me another pair of headphones to review, the J&L-103 Bluetooth Earphones, Sports Wireless headphones with Magnetic Function. This model is very similar to my aging Jaybird headphones, so I was very excited to put them through their paces.
Lake Arrowhead birds
Took some shots of ducks, egrets and cormorants down at Grass Valley Lake. Set up some bird seed and zip-tied a dead branch to my deck railing and got some nice shots of Stellar Jays, woodpeckers and even a Northern Flicker. The birds didn’t seem to care it was a set up ;-)
Speeding up your Lightroom workflow with Photo Mechanic
As powerful as Lightroom is, it is a dog as far as speed goes when culling or browsing through photos. I found that adding Camera Bit’s Photo Mechanic to my workflow saves me tons of time. Despite it’s $150 price tag, the time savings is more than worth it.
Making sense of Lightroom flag filters and how to show just non-rejected photos
I have to say that Lightroom’s Flag filter UI has got to be one of the poorest UI designs in the history of UI designs…but I digress… For a long while, I could not figure out how to display only the photos that have not been rejected. I was sure you could, but I never …
Building an Excel One-Month Calendar
One of my duties at work is to put together a calendar of various due dates every quarter. Of course, I could manually put the day numbers in, but where’s the fun in that?! The trickiest part in getting Excel to do this automatically is getting the first of the month on the right day. …
Lithium ion battery breakthrough double’s the capacity! November launch!
“An MIT spinout is preparing to commercialize a novel rechargable lithium metal battery that offers double the energy capacity of the lithium ion batteries that power many of today’s consumer electronics.” “SolidEnergy Systems’ battery (far right) is twice as energy-dense, yet just as safe and long-lasting as the lithium ion batteries used in consumer electronics. …
Markets at all-time highs: I’m outta here!
On April 24, 2014, I posted that I was jumping into the stock market again with both feet. At that time, the S&P 500 stood at 1,883.95. Today it closed at 2,187.02. That’s at 16% rise in the S&P 500, but if I take into account reinvested dividends its about a 21% gain on the mutual fund after …