Re: Would like advice from DSLR experts/afficionatos - 9 years ago

Best thing for indoors is a fast lens - f2.8 or better. f2.8 zooms can get pricey quick so you may want to pick up a prime. A 50 f1.8 can be gotten for fairly cheap. With a DX sensor a 50mm may not be wide enough indoors so also look at 35mm and/or 28mm lenses.

Re: PSA: check your password strength - 9 years ago

Quoterz I'd suggest you visit this page to read up on what a "rainbow table" is. Then google about password cracking. Four character passwords are trivial to crack. Not 4 characters - 4 random words. I think a 25ish-character string password comprised of 4 random words of is no trivial task even using combinations of dictionary words because of the number of possible words is s

Re: PSA: check your password strength - 9 years ago

Quotemikebw EDIT: The problem with that XKCD example is that it assumes the attack is only brute force, and will not try combinations of dictionary words. A computer would not think to do that, but a person behind the attack might. True but according to Webster there are roughly 1 million english words - realistically you can assume 50,000 for the average English speaker. Each word "blob

Re: PSA: check your password strength - 9 years ago

Re: OT: Tourney Pickem, waiting to pounce on you unsuspecting fools - 9 years ago

Yeah...Georgetown...<sigh>

Re: OT: NFL offseason talk, player moves, Smith to KC, Boldin to 49er and more - 9 years ago

QuotepRICE cUBE 49ers sign Boldin, how strange to go from being the champ to being on the team you beat to win it. Weird but this is the 2nd year the 49ers took a receiver from the team that beat them in the postseason - last year they took Manningham from the Giants. And technically, two Giants went to the 49ers last year (Jacobs too).

Re: Geico commercial with basketball play...??? - 9 years ago

Quotesamintx Please explain it if there is an explanation of what the purpose of the BB player running pellmell is. He's the 2nd leading shot blocker of all time in the NBA. He's signature was waving his finger after a blocked shot. But outside of NBA circles he's not that recognizable a person so I agree with Steve that this one's not that effective.

Re: Outlook 2011 Calendar Attachmnets Issues - Help, Please! - 9 years ago

QuoteCary Going through my email with a fine-toothed comb is OK, but I can't remove the attachment - that option is greyed out. That's the whole reason I'm asking this to begin with. Remove any attachments from your emails, not the calendar events. You should be able to remove attachments from any email. 2nd recommendation would be to cull any emails stored on the server but emails without at

Re: Outlook 2011 Calendar Attachmnets Issues - Help, Please! - 9 years ago

QuoteCary The Meeting drop down menu has an Attachments submenu offering Save, Preview, Add and Remove. Add and Remove are greyed out. I can create a meeting, and add attachments. IIRC the Add and Remove are greyed out because you don't have rights to edit the meeting you did not create in Outlook. If you create a meeting you can add or remove attachments. Ask for them to raise the accou

Re: Anyone use a FitBit? - 9 years ago

I've got one (the Fitbit Ultra) and love it. I find that it actually tracking your activity levels kind of spurs me on to be more active: What? Only 4000 steps today?!? Cmon pooch, we're going for a walk. Several folks in my family have one and we get kind of competitive to see who tallies more steps each week.

Re: "Mailbox" app - 9 years ago

I'm 400k in front of Testcase and waiting also, maybe I'll get to try it sometime this month?

Re: If someone sues my HOA and the HOA loses, can I be made to pay for the legal fees? - 9 years ago

Quotemikebw OK, this helps a little. The problem as I understand it is that the management company saw fit to increase our dues by more than 10% one year which the private party alleges to be illegal. They also somehow botched the election process for a new HOA president. The lawsuit should specify the defendant(s). If the HOA is a listed party then the HOA is responsible for costs unless th

Re: If someone sues my HOA and the HOA loses, can I be made to pay for the legal fees? - 9 years ago

I'm not a lawyer but the HOA is Mike and his neighbors - as part of the association they are responsible for any costs. What's not clear is what's in issue - the policies of the HOA or the actions of the 3rd party management company. If the policies of the HOA are what's at issue, the choices are don't fight the lawsuit and the HOA members are responsible for the summary judgement (presuma

Re: What are you watching on Amazon Prime Instant Video? - 9 years ago

Firefly

Re: Need some quick pricing advice...about to make offer on a 2013 GLK350 - 9 years ago

According to USAA, the price should be 39,700 which includes a $2k incentive but doesn't say if that is the winter sales event special or just an incentive from buying through the USAA program.

Re: One of the BCS computer polls still ranks ND ahead of Alabama - 9 years ago

QuoteMGS_forgot_password How is that any different than the human voters putting Florida State over ND back in '93 despite the fact that ND beat FSU? Because that wasn't the last game of the season and FSU didn't lose to BC?

Re: New Amazon Service Announced Today: AutoRip CD - 9 years ago

Cool! Edit: but the earliest AutoRip'd songs are from a Sept 2006 purchase so there may be more coming?

Re: How to get photos onto iPad 4 without camera adapter, etc.? - 9 years ago

Version 2 of iExplorer was free and would mount the iPad on your desktop so you could transfer files if you can find a copy somewhere. Version 3 costs $30 I think. If you bought a software bundle (MacUpdate/MacHeist/etc.) they sometimes include an app that would do the same thing (Phone to Mac was in the spring 2012 MacUpdate Bundle).

Re: Should I install Flash? - 9 years ago

You could just download Chrome for flash. The thinking is since it's baked into Chrome you won't gum up your whole system and once you quit Chrome, it's gone until (if) you need it again.

Re: New Canon t4i w/18-55mm lens for $599, flip out lcd - 9 years ago

Apparently works - the $899 goes away after you add it to the cart. A guy here at my office ordered one - on the invoice/receipt the price of the camera is $749 minus the $150 instant savings came to a total of $599. Plus if you order the 55-250 they take another $150 off and you end up getting that lens for $105. Not a bad deal.

Re: Google makes Snapseed for iOS free (used to be $5) - 9 years ago

It had been offered a couple times as free for a limited time but normally was $4.99. One of my fav iOS photo apps, waiting to see if Google keeps it going.

Re: good source for free mp3 ringtones? - 9 years ago

How about the ringtone from CTU on 24?

Re: Yet Another Amazon Shipping Gripe - 9 years ago

Lasership? They have f**ked up delivery to my office building several times (and I'm a Prime Member so that has no effect on Lasership). Lasership has missed 2nd day delivery dates, attempted delivering to a business address on weekends (which counted as a delivery address unavailable in their parlance), and the coup de grâce was after inquiring about a missing package they said they'd definit

Re: Anyone familiar with travel out of Virginia? - 9 years ago

If you choose the Amtrak to DC option, make the stop Union Station in Alexandria - usually referred to as Alexandria Station. It's right across the tracks from the Metro which is only 2 stops to National Airport (and save a few bucks vs going to Union Station in DC).

Re: How to Store iTunes movies on Two Drives? - 9 years ago

I think you can just unselect "Copy files to iTunes Media folder..." and/or the "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" preferences - but probably just the first. I managed to have my library files inadvertently strewn across two drives at one time because one or both preferences got unselected by accident. Just dump the new movies into a folder on the new drive and after t

Re: Stupid iTunes gift card question - 9 years ago

No, the gift card can only be redeemed for a single iTunes account.

Re: Teh Horror...... My new Page Layout Tool Is.... - 9 years ago

Can you cheat and use Keynote? Don't laugh, many are using it for design purposes:

Re: Printing in Mail 6.2 - 9 years ago

All I do is just open the 3rd email in it's own window and print that one. Do you have the conversation/threaded view enabled? Try turning that off if you can't just open the one email.

Re: HD replacement in an iMac.....don't try this at home? - 9 years ago

Take it easy, it's fairly simple on a 2007. Last time I did it it took 10 minutes. And follow C(-)ris' advice Other thing I'd add is do it in a dust free environment as possible and check the LCD screen and back of the glass screen for dust before put it back together.

Re: sports on ipad - 9 years ago

If you are a Sunday Ticket customer on DirecTV there's an app to watch the football games