Category: Reviews
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Backing Up Large Video File Collections to AWS Glacier Deep Archive
Part 1 – Why AWS Glacier Deep Archive? Backing up large collections of raw video footage and edit masters remains a real challenge for anyone working in the video production world. As the Executive Director of a local community media station, I’m responsible for maintaining a Synology NAS which currently holds 55TB of final edit…
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Hilton Hhonors Wifi vs. Verizon Hotspot
Our family is on a short two-day ski trip in New Hampshire, staying at Hampton Inn & Suites North Conway. The hotel is great, extremely family friendly, and the staff are nice. There’s an amazing mini-water park  inside the hotel, bingo night, movie night complete with popcorn. Just a wonderful place. Unfortunately, I needed to sneak in…
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FIX: Neatgear WNDR4500 Firmware Source of Internet Connection Dropping
5/7/15 UPDATE: The solution described in this blog post (from September 2013) may no longer be necessary.  I recently (April 2015) performed a firmware update and “reset the router to factory defaults” and life is good, no performance issues. The key “Revert to factory default settings.â€Â step may have been the issue all along, something I don’t…
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Five Reasons To Stay at Fransted Family Campground
April 2012 UPDATE: Since I wrote this blog post Fransted Family Campground has been sold and is now managed by the new owners. If you’re looking for a campground in the Franconia Notch area of New Hampshire, you need to check out Fransted Family Campground. There are many camping choices in New Hampshire and the experience…
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Sail Boston 2009 & Web Based Photo Editing
Tall Ships Boston – 2009 Originally uploaded by mediaguy4 Photography is one of my favorite hobbies, it’s relaxing and challenging at the same time. Â I’ve also found that focusing on still images has helped me better understand a develop my skills in my profession, video and TV production. This particular shot was taken aboard the…