We have started work on a new desktop software utility designed to enable impacted cards to continue operating beyond the previously announced EOL date of September 15, 2016. The new software is called the “Eye-Fi X2 Utility” (X2U) and will be provided free of charge as a download.
Orange
Posted on August 19th, 2016 in android, digital | No Comments »
Maiden Lane, San Francisco
Posted on August 17th, 2016 in android, digital | No Comments »
Update on Eye-Fi Bricking their older cards
I received this in my email tonight:
UPDATE: Information Regarding “End of Life” (EOL) of X2 and Prior Generation Products
Posted on August 10th, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
Chandelier
Posted on August 8th, 2016 in android, digital | No Comments »
Odd, abandoned
A strange little abandoned shop I saw off of I-80.
Posted on August 4th, 2016 in android, digital | No Comments »
Bye Bye, Eye-Fi
Eye-Fi has decided to discontinue the services that support their older X1 and X2 cards, which is a shame – they’re capable workhorse cards that can transfer photos directly to a smart phone using a private WiFi network or use their Eye-Fi Center to transfer photos to online services or your computer.
According to Eye-Fi, some features like direct mode may still work, but anything using their online service won’t work — if you haven’t created an account by September 16th 2016, you’re out of luck.
Posted on July 31st, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
Alleyway Still Life
From a walkabout in San Francisco – hadn’t been to the financial district in a long time. Pentax MX-1.
Posted on July 29th, 2016 in digital, pentax mx-1 | No Comments »
Name That Font
Posted on July 26th, 2016 in journal | No Comments »
Alleyway, San Francisco
My first time wandering alleyways in the SOMA district of San Francisco in years – my old stomping ground for most of 1995 until 2013.
Posted on July 25th, 2016 in android, digital | No Comments »
Texture/Perspective
Posted on July 24th, 2016 in android, digital | No Comments »
Microsoft Home use Program
If your company has a Microsoft Office licensing agreement, chances are that you may be eligible for a copy of Microsoft Office for $9.95? Or, discounted Microsoft 365 subscriptions? Someone in your company should be set up as a benefits administrator and should be able to provide you with information regarding your company’s account.
Check out http://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/home.aspx for more information.
Posted on July 22nd, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
More playing with tilt-shift, again
Posted on June 24th, 2016 in digital | No Comments »
Organic Gardening
Posted on June 23rd, 2016 in digital, iphoneography | No Comments »
Table Art
Still life of my daughter’s ad-hoc art.
Posted on June 22nd, 2016 in digital, iphoneography | No Comments »
The Smallest Photo Office in the World
Posted on June 15th, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
Working Men
Working Men
Posted on June 14th, 2016 in iphoneography | No Comments »
More comparisons – Samsung versus Apple
I’ve given up my iPhone for good and am using a Samsung Galaxy phone. Since I’ve stopped switching between platforms I’m sold on Android as a platform. Here’s why…
Posted on May 31st, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
Microsoft Outlook for Android
One feature I’ve struggled with in switching to Android was being able to duplicate Apple’s VIP email notifications. I get a TON of mails, and need to be able to have just the important mails show up on my lock screen.
Samsung’s applications have a feature called “Priority Senders” that can work the same — with NILS (https://play.google.com/
The problem? My old Samsung Galaxy S3 was left at Kitkat, and Google changed permissions on external cards – so my apps that stored data on the external card couldn’t reach it.
I upgraded to Cyanogenmod, but Samsung apps don’t run on non-Samsung images. I’ve tried a handful of third-party email clients and apps; some of them have promising features, but some require sending mail via IMAP to a third party.
My company’s moved to Office365 and allowed Microsoft Outlook. Outlook for Android includes a feature called Focused Inbox that has separate notifications. Now, I can teach Outlook that my priority contacts should go into the focused inbox and get lock screen notifications.
One quirk – Outlook for Android includes a calendar and address book feature, but Gmail doesn’t “see” the contacts and calendar items unless I add the account to the Android mail client. I’ve added the account to Android, but one of the features Outlook supports is two-factor authentication. If Office365 support is blocked to the native apps, I’ll need to find another solution for integrating calendar items and contacts into one place.
Posted on April 20th, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
Anker Soundbuds In-Ear Sport Earbuds
I bought a set of Anker SoundBuds In-Ear Sport Earbuds and I’m VERY impressed. Apple Earpods are my baseline, and it’s hard to find a pair of third-party earbuds that compete, let alone a pair of wireless earpods.
Inexpensive (Usually around $25.99 on that Amazon link), great bass, comfortable, and they stayed put when moving around. I wore them for 3 hours without a complaint.
The cable connecting the earpods is similar to headphone wire, without any stiffness. My other pair had a stiff plastic bridle connecting the earpods and it was too small and uncomfortable.
Anker does a great job with packaging. The headphones come with a small carrying case and a nice USB cable with velcro wrap. I was looking for a small light USB cable for my everyday carry bag, and the Anker one fits the need nicely.
They were easy to figure out, easy to pair, and didn’t suffer drop-outs when walking like my Plantronics Voyager Legend, an extraordinary noise cancelling mono headset. I wouldn’t trade it for any other headset, but for streaming audio it lacks somewhat.
If you’re looking for a nice pair of wired earpods to work with your Android phone, Amazon Premium Headphones, Android’s answer to the Apple Earpod work well and have a magnetic attachment that connects the earbuds together, making storage a snap. The cable is a flat cable from the yoke to the connector, which I like.
Posted on April 16th, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
Samsung S5 Abnormal Reset
The Samsung S5 I’m working on boots up, thanks to a vanilla firmware update that I found on the web. Once I flashed the firmware using ODIN, The phone booted up and went through the setup steps. After setting a Google account, I was left at a screen asking for an old Samsung account.
There are scores of videos that walk through a step to get to the settings menu to turn this feature off via voice settings, but this phone bypasses the menu that allows this.
What I did find was having the ability to sideload an app to go to the settings menu using a USB 3.0 OTG Flash Drive
Posted on March 26th, 2016 in blog | No Comments »
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