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This week's Audible pick from Steve.

The Skype SPIM/SPAM Has to Stop!

Skype SPAM - NO MORE
Are you getting tired of these request too? I’ve had just about enough of it and seriously thinking of dropping Skype altogether for good. The problem is not about one occasional spam message. The real problem is what they are not doing to protect it’s users.

Why the heck did they go 16:9?!?

I love watching movies. It’s a break from the daily routine and from reality that most of the times gives me a rush or moves me.

Of course, I’m not talking about sappy, boring, make me want to gag movies. Thankfully I haven’t had to watch one of those at the theater since I [...]

The debate rages on…

The honest truth is not and will probably never be that Windows is better than any Mac, its just not so. Microsoft in its infinite wisdom choose to buy technology from other companies, tried to make it look uniform and told the hardware vendors out there that as long as you were close enough [...]

The Dadcast Goes into Pre Beta

DadCasting Rig

We recently started toying with the idea of putting together a DadCast, a 2FatDads podcast, so I dusted off the old mic stand and put away my reels of spliced tape and decided to put WireTap Pro to the test of recording a Skype conference call between three or more of the Fat Dads. Unfortunately I made a few mistakes in the set up.

  1. The first being that I recorded all Mac audio  in WireTap and not just the Skype call.
  2. The second problem was that I should never have routed the Mac audio out of the Mac into one of the board channels and then feed the whole board back into the  Mac’s line in.


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Pentax K200D Hands-On

Pentax K200D / K1000

If you are a pro photographer, you should probably stop reading now, unless you really need a good laugh.

I finally plonked down the required fundage to buy myself some street cred in the camera department. Of course this means that all my photography skills are yet to come.  For a bit of back ground, up to now, my two most sophisticated cameras have been my trusted Pentax K1000 fully manual all metal body and the Fuji s5000 which we bought for it’s faster shutter and SLR-like feel. Five years ago digital SLR cameras were rather expensive. So the art of photography is not completely lost on me, however it is rather funny that the best pictures I’ve taken in the last few months have been with camera phones and point & shoots.

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