Month: April 2017
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Eyefi & FlashAir wireless SD cards for camera
Eyefi is a technology that’s been around for a while, that combines a regular SD memory card with a wireless chipset so that images that are being recorded onto the card by the camera can be transmitted wirelessly to another device. The cards can be purchased mainly on Amazon. The technology has also been licensed…
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Canon MILC Cameras: EOS M Series
Canon has been slow to produce viable MILC cameras but their latest range has done a lot for their credibility in leveraging the benefits of this relatively new technology for interchangeable lens cameras. Briefly put, MILC is an abbreviation for Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera and essentially it is a DSLR without the optical viewfinder and…
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Xubuntu 17.04, Kodi 17.1
Well the bedroom pc (AMD E350) had to be reinstalled because it needed more disk space for storing videos etc and I had assigned the larger disk entirely to Linux (500 GB) and only left a 320 GB partition for my stuff which was almost full. I reinstalled completely with the latest release of Xubuntu…
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More Linux utilities: Pinta, Teamviewer, Spotify
Pinta is a basic graphics editor which is inspired by the Windows software Paint.net. It is simpler and easier to use than Gimp, and runs under Mono. Teamviewer has a Linux client available that I have used on Xubuntu. Spotify also has a Linux client available that works well under Xubuntu. However, there are currently…