Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Camera eyepiece article

Maybe I should wear my glasses while shooting after all
http://photo.net/columns/mjohnston/column6/

Monday, October 22, 2012

How to get MacBook Pro Thunderbolt / Mini-displayport to HDMI

How to get MacBook Pro Thunderbolt / Mini-displayport to HDMI

* Check here to see which model MacBooks support native audio output over HDMI:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4241
* If yours supports audio, buy this adapter:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TY600VC/A/griffin-mini-displayport-to-hdmi-with-audio-dvi
* After plugging in the cable and adapter, to get sound working go to the Sound control panel, and under the output tab choose your external audio system



Sunday, September 23, 2012

Getting an MP4 file to show on PS3 using USB drive

Two simple steps that got this to work for me:
- Make sure to put it in an folder on the USB drive, not at the root level
- Before diving into a submenu on the usb drive, select the drive at the movie level, click the green triangle for options and select Display All.  Then all the files showed up correctly.

How to search in a specific site

http://www.techerator.com/2010/05/google-tip-how-to-search-within-a-specific-website-domain-or-news-source/

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Copying HTML tables to Excel

Forgot how I was able in the past to get complex web tables to properly get put into an Excel worksheet (my former MFL, aka Master Feature List).  I now remember, thanks to this post, that what I would do is:

  • Open the page in question in IE
  • Save locally
  • Add a stylesheet in the header to get the next step to work correctly
  • <STYLE type="text/css">
    br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
    </STYLE>

  • Resave the local HTML page
  • Open the local HTML page in IE
  • Copy and paste from IE into Excel
  • Wha la, just what I wanted.



Thursday, August 9, 2012

New Testament verses regarding the trinity

Matt 3:16-17 (Jesus' baptism)
Matt 28:19 (baptize in the name of...)

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Minute Physics

Great explanations of difficult physics concepts in a minute:
http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics

Picture worth a thousand words

Awesome set of government related infographics (how a bill becomes a law, senate rules).  Eat your heart out School House Rock!

http://www.good.is/post/infographic-how-a-bill-actually-becomes-a-law/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+good/lbvp+(GOOD+Main+RSS+Feed)

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Tree identified

I'm pretty sure we have a crapemyrtle tree in our front yard after some investigation.

T8 fluorescent bulb lighting setup

http://www.joeedelman.com/blog/photography/lighting/no-flicker-fluorescent-studio-lights-cheap/

This looks like a great way to get a nice big bank of lights for little power and cost.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Monday, July 9, 2012

Solar water heating panel installers

I think docs from the previous owner indicated that the installer of the solar panels for heating the pool water in our house were done by:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/poco-solar-energy-santa-clara-2