Duplicate Photo Cleaner for iPhoto – Review

The Problem: I discovered the “Duplicate Photo Cleaner for iPhoto” out of necessity. I keep a master collection of all my photos on my server. Photos from my cameras are collected there, and then imported into iPhoto on each of my local Macs. I do this to protect my “original” photos from any errant issues… Continue reading Duplicate Photo Cleaner for iPhoto – Review

Pixlr Image Editor Review

What Is Pixlr? Pixlr is an image editor from Autodesk, where it has some amazing engineering and entertainment software siblings : AutoCad, Maya, and many others. Adobe’s Photoshop is still the top ranking image editor, and trying to make any comparison between Pixlr and Photoshop is like comparing a bicycle to an F-18 fighter jet.… Continue reading Pixlr Image Editor Review

Commander One – An Ultimate Free Finder Alternative

In February, I posted an article titled “2 Free Finder Alternatives for OS X” (Click here to see the article).  MuCommander and XtraFinder are the subject programs, and both are, in my humble opinion, improvements over the OS X Finder. Now, an even stronger Finder alternative has emerged:  Commander One.  The program loads fast, has… Continue reading Commander One – An Ultimate Free Finder Alternative

AT&T U-verse – A Review After 18 Months Of Service

In The Beginning: Nearly two years ago I gave up my Dish Network satellite, Vonage phone service, and my DSL Extreme ISP. An AT&T U-verse bundle was the reason for this change. Three hundred TV channels, Free Movie Channels, VOIP with many features, and a faster internet (18 MPS from AT&T verses 3 MPS from… Continue reading AT&T U-verse – A Review After 18 Months Of Service

Buffer – A Freemium Social Media Manager

Who knew???

So Many Posts, So Little Time My business partners and myself are in the process of re-launching a commercial website, TimelessDesignedFurniture.com. To support our website, and help establish our brand, we created pages on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. Though we will undoubtedly market some of our products on these social media sites, we will also… Continue reading Buffer – A Freemium Social Media Manager

21 Free Must-Have Mac OS X Apps

  Foreword Located deep in the bowels of a subterranean man-cave in Southern California, the LarryTalksTech computers patiently await daily instructions from their users. Though there is a sprinkling of Debian Linux powered computers, the main work-horses here are Macs. As our capital expenditure budget is next to “0”, so open-source software answers most of… Continue reading 21 Free Must-Have Mac OS X Apps

Behringer Pro Mixer VMX200USB – Not Just For DJs

Do I Really Need An Audio Mixer? Several years ago, I decided to embark on the task of digitizing songs from my vinyl record collection. With the exception of a phono pre-amplifier, I had everything I needed to accomplish the task. After looking for phono pre-amps online, I could not decide on a specific model… Continue reading Behringer Pro Mixer VMX200USB – Not Just For DJs

Murus: OS X IceFloor Alternative

What Is Murus? For some time now, IceFloor is the graphic user interface I have used to set up the PF firewalls on both of my Macs (Learn more about IceFloor by clicking HERE). Now that OS X Yosemite has arrived, IceFloor can still be used, but the current version is feature delimited. Though IceFloor… Continue reading Murus: OS X IceFloor Alternative

The Behringer UCA202 (UCA222) USB Audio Interface On Linux

Behringer UCA222

My kingdom for a horse! For several years, I used a Mac Pro “Cheese-grater”, with two Power PC G5 processors, as my home theater computer. The video was fine (as long as I ran it at 720P), and the audio was very good with fiber optic “out” . Its aging Mac OS X worked well… Continue reading The Behringer UCA202 (UCA222) USB Audio Interface On Linux