January 10, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I recently parted ways with YouTube TV due to its price increase and my family's lack of television use. One thing that my wife missed was watching Friends. Friends were recently put behind a paywall on services such as MAX,...
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January 3, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
Please comment if you experience this as well, but sometimes, AI just flat out does not work. Sometimes it's brilliant, but there are times when even the most simple things absolutely don't work. I hope someone who understands AI better...
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By: Stephen Toback
Apple's "Image Playground" is aptly named. It seems more like a children's game than any sort of AI image generator. Not really sure of the purpose. It wouldn't let me paste a prompt into the interface and the amount of...
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January 2, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I decided to take what I learned in migrating my band's website to html from the Squarespace platform and apply it to migration of my personal website. Here are some of the lessons learned that can hopefully help you as...
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December 24, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I had posted a while ago that I found an app that allowed me to replace the audio track of a video file without re-encoding the video (which creates a loss in quality). Of course, I've been so busy the...
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December 16, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
We recently hosted Panopto on site to do an interview. Unfortunately the interviewer's mic was too hot and was significantly clipped. This made it a bit uncomfortable for their audience. I remember that Adobe Audition used to have a DeClipper...
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November 8, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
The Nikon Z50II is a compact mirrorless camera that balances accessibility with advanced features at a starting price of $909.95 for the body only. At its core is a 20.9-megapixel DX format (APS-C) sensor, capable of handling low-light situations with...
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November 4, 2024
By: Michael Blair
Since our overview of Blackmagic Camera last year, new entrants into the mobile camera app field have made the topic worth revisiting. Here I’ll compare the updated Blackmagic Camera app to two more recent apps - Final Cut Camera and...
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October 23, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Extraordinary technology. Workflow and pricing model still need work. I'm working with a researcher who has 1,000 videos in Urdu that he wants dubbed into English. I expected that ElevenLabs would be the right tool. In testing, it did a...
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October 15, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
From Adobe MAX 2024, Lightroom Mobile got some powerful updates to help the mobile photojournalist edit their images on the fly. It includes both automated presets as well as tools and some AI image recognization that seems to work quite...
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