A mostly circular trip through the Catalonia region of Spain (NE Spain). The coastal area was avoided as it was winter and we aren’t beach people. There are 4 regions of Catalonia, Barcelona, Lleida, Girona, and Tarragona. There are cities with the same name as the region but you could be hours away from the […]
Accommodations We traveled in August during the New Zealand winter. There weren’t many tourists so it was easy to find nice places to stay using AirBnB. Our route was Christchurch, Oamaru, Dunedin, Te Anau, Queenstown, Hokitika, Kaikōura, then return to Christchurch. Transportation We rented a car from the airport at Christchurch. Driving was easy. As […]
LastPass recently announced that customer password vaults were stolen over the summer. As long as your master password was long and complex, it is unlikely any of your stored passwords could be cracked. Based on a well-regarded security researcher Steve Gibson, I switched to BitWarden as a replacement. I elected the $10 a year account […]
Accommodations We prefer to stay around Les Halle or the Marais in the heart of Paris. AirBnB and Booking.com both have a lot of choice depending on your taste. We tend to like an apartment to add to the charm of Paris. Ideally, be closer to the river. Many major sites, restaurants, and shopping are […]
Accommodations There are many great neighborhoods in London. Our favorite area to stay is around Notting Hill and Kensington Gardens. Notting Hill Gate tube station is close as is the north-west corner of Hyde Park. Portobello Road is near and the area is tree-lined and classical London 4-story buildings with some good apartment options. Both […]
This workflow works for a large number of short clips. Shoot clips to be 3-15 seconds long. Clips can be longer if they are a narration. Create a folder on the computer like 202203 Event Name Copy the video clips from the camera to the computer using a tool like Image Capture on a Mac. […]
Google has a service called Feedburner that allows people to subscribe to getting an email when new posts appear on a blog. Google hasn’t been improving the service and there are better services available, namely MailChimp and ConstantContact. For low volumes of subscribers and emails, MailChimp is free so it makes most sense for […]
1967 Lock Haven State College Yearbook Praeco 29MB PDF scanned with OCR
Crashplan backs data to the cloud but also supports a local backup destination. Using a local destination allows a much quicker recovery (hours instead of days) because the local network is much faster than the internet. Issue Occasionally, Crashplan reports the Destination is not available even though the drive is shown connected in Finder. […]
