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Category: Handy Tips of All Sorts

Time to upgrade your E-Z Pass

Remember when the new E-Z Pass transponders came out and it was Virginia’s plan to charge everyone with an old transponder 50 cents per month, and a dollar for the new transponder?  I do.  I was one of the people who spoke out about the fees even though I was …

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Brett Thorson June 25, 2014 June 25, 2014Handy Tips of All Sorts, Mister Dude 0

How Dexter Murdered Your Mother

Screen Shot 2014-04-03 at 12.06.31 AMTV shows are a fickle beast.  Having been lured into watching all the seasons of Lost, I’ve grown jaded on …

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Brett Thorson April 3, 2014 September 22, 2015Handy Tips of All Sorts, Mister Dude 0

Parking at Shmoocon 2014

As part of the network team at Shmoocon, I did a site visit yesterday.  I’ll spare you all the technical details, but one important thing did come up… Parking.  It’s not going to be pretty.

Typically, the DuPont / Washington Hilton has a lot of parking space, but they are …

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Brett Thorson January 9, 2014 January 9, 2014Handy Tips of All Sorts, Travel 1

Best Business Plan Book Available (It’s Fun!)

I’ve started and ended several businesses in my time.  A few of those times I even made a business plan (which didn’t seem to impact success or failure, but it was useful).

I wasn’t excited to make the plan, but it had to be done.  I wasn’t excited until….

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Brett Thorson September 22, 2013 September 22, 2013Handy Tips of All Sorts 0

New Blue Yeti Microphone – Tips and Suggestions

I just got my second Blue Yeti Pro Microphone from Amazon.  The first one was used, and packaged strangely.  It smelled like mold, and the cables were in purple lined zip lock bags instead of the normal clear kind.

Props to Amazon though for replacing it immediately.

The installation documentation …

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Brett Thorson December 27, 2012 March 30, 2014Handy Tips of All Sorts 1

It’s the end of the world? The beginning of chaos brought to you by Apophis.

So if you are counting on the Mayan calendar to wipe out all your debt, obligations, and the rest of the Earth, well, I don’t think you are going to have much luck (or unluck depending on how look at it.

However, if you can hold out until 2029 or …

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Brett Thorson December 2, 2012 December 2, 2012Handy Tips of All Sorts 0

Conferences (Like DCWeek) Need More Fail

So I’ve been leisurely attending a conference in DC this week called Digital Capital Week. It’s an interesting collection of all sorts of people. I’m not sure I totally fit in, but I’ve felt that way before and never let it stop me.

There are 2 questions I keep …

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Brett Thorson November 7, 2012 March 30, 2014Handy Tips of All Sorts DCWeek 0

Watching Hurricane Sandy

So hurricane Sandy is trolling the East Coast looking to do some damage.

I’ve compiled (and while I have power, will continue to update) a list of links I’m using to watch the storm.  If you have others, send them to me @HandyNerds  Thanks!

  • Google’s Crisis Map
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Brett Thorson October 29, 2012 October 29, 2012Handy Tips of All Sorts 0

Canon MTS Files – Magic Splitting and Concatenation

Something weird happened when I was editing some video from the HFS20.  As my system looked at the card, somehow it saw 17 minutes of video in 1 file on the SD Card.

This worked great until I copied the media to the NAS, and repointed Adobe Premier at the …

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Brett Thorson September 2, 2012 September 2, 2012Handy Tips of All Sorts Adobe Premier Pro, Canon, MTS 0

Honeywell Air Filters – HRF What?

We’ve got a Honeywell air purifier in the house, and while the lights on the device never said it was time to change the filter, after several years, it was time to change the filter.

The problem was that (of course) Home Depot didn’t carry any replacement filters in stock, …

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Brett Thorson September 2, 2012 September 2, 2012Handy Tips of All Sorts Air filter, Honeywell, HRF-11, HRF-14, HRF-D1, HRF-F1 2
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