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Manage your expectations!
I was looking for a cheap shogi (Japanese chess) as a starter set to learning how to play. I found nice looking plastic one on Amazon for about $20. I looked at the reviews and I do not know why I still become surprised by some of the expectations people describe in their reviews. For…
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Sony vlog monitor for Xperia phones.
I bought the Sony Vlog Monitor for Xperia phones. A very handy camera monitor. Useful when filming, though I wish the screen supported touch and some of the camera options were made available to control via the screen. When I use it, the image does not fill the whole screen, so there is plenty of…
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Apple is not the first! OK?
Since the iPhone 15 came out I have been seeing tech people on Twitter and on shows like TWiT make statements like “no other phone has this”. That’s just wrong. Couple examples – a dedicated camera button, well the Sony Xperia has had one of those for years. You can even half-press it to engage…
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A filter mount for the Sony Xperia 1 V and 1 IV
The Sony Xperia 1 series of phones are an awesome pro-photogramy mobile phones, but there is one caveat – beyond a protective case, no company makes accessories for them! if you look on the Reddit SonyXperia forum, a frequent question asks if there are any compatible filter mounts? Almost everyone either replies with a “no”…
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Candle: The Power of the Flame on the Nintendo Switch
I bought the game Candle: The Power of the Flame for the Nintendo Switch. It is a puzzle platformer. The game itself is beautiful, and while I am still in the beginning, I am enjoying it. My only complaint is that the text size in the speech bubbles is so small I can barely read…
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How to factory reset an old HP laptop running Windows 10.
I have an old HP laptop. How old? The original OS it was sold with was Windows Vista. When we bought it from Best Buy it came with a free Windows 7 upgrade CD-set in the box. When Windows 10 was release, I upgraded the OS, since the upgrade was free. Over the years and…
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How to resolve Windows Update error code 80072EFE on Windows 7?
I recently bought a 2010 Sony Vaio laptop for a video project. The laptop runs Windows 7, and it has a recovery portion. After performing a factory reset, I tried running Windows Update, but all I got in return was error code 80072EFE. It had been many years since I had used Windows 7, but…
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Windows 11 and Sony Memory Stick
If you try to access a Sony Memory Stick on Windows 11 and you do not receive the usual prompt to choose what to do when inserting removable storage or you cannot see said storage in Windows Explorer, it is most likely not the storage media. In my case Windows 11 does not show my…
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Asteroid City
Just got back from seeing Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. The movie in one word – AWESOME!
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The smartphone killed so much tech creativity
Lately I have been into vintage Sony devices. Just looking through the vast number of Walkman, digital cameras, Clie and Vaio product lines that Sony used to produce, made me realize how much creativity and variety has been lost thanks to the smartphone. Devices, high quality ones, like cameras, camcorders, portable audio devices, radios, disc…
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