Bitrox Tech

Where’d it go? Not sure how this new fangled “glass” technology works!

Best Buy memory card priced at $89. Walked out if the store with it for $23 after a B&H Photo price check/match! It pays to do your online research. Also gives you an idea of the markup at big box stores.

Watching Google I/O live. Amazon made a huge impact with their Echo (aka Alexa). But Google isn’t going down without a fight. They’re ramping Google Assistant up with “Google Lens” to combine both audio/voice context with image recognition. The demo is showing some amazing stuff on the way. Just goes to show… when giants truly […]

Well I am BEYOND pissed off. The very expensive high speed/capacity memory card in my very expensive “pro-sumer” camera just failed. The Canon 70D gave absolutely no indication that there was a problem. It allowed me to see images in preview and then simply and silently didn’t write them to the bad card. I lost […]

Playing around a bit with Adobe Photoshop. Learned a cool technique for turning any photo into something that looks like a charcoal line drawing in just a few clicks of the mouse. Here’s one of my bike shot in the Northern CA redwoods.

If you own a desktop computer older than 3 years and have never cleaned it, do so now before it bites the dust… literally. Note… this puppy ain’t mine. It died via thermal shutdown about 30 minutes after power on. Recoverable…TBD.

My first ride in an airplane was a United 747 to Hawaii when I as 7 years old. I remember marveling at the lounge upstairs and the little airplane given to me by the pilot when I visited the cockpit. Truly one of the world’s great planes headed for retirement. http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/uniteds-747-retirement-plan-marks-end-for-iconic-jet-in-us/ar-BByaBG4?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Anyone remember Ender’s Game? It’s begun… http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38569027

Ignorance and an unwillingness to think is the cradle of self-righteous bliss.

Got to love it. Tons of folks having problems with battery life on the new Mac Books they’ve waited years to get their hands on. Apples response… remove the part of the battery indicator that shows the “time remaining” in a laptop’s charge, saying that those estimates can be inaccurate. What a wanker thing to […]