This is the feedback I sent to Backblaze shortly before I cancelled my account with them. For the additional context – the restore failure I alluded to was basically that: So, the departing ‘support’ ticket I filed with them (#167833): Maybe this’ll help your future would-be customers. The main reason is that when I tried… Read more
It has some outright bugs around handling of SD cards. For example, it will not record high quality video to a SanDisk Extreme Pro card. It falsely claims that the card is not UHS-I compliant, nor fast enough – both utter garbage. “Silent” mode (electronic front & rear curtain shutters) makes a significant difference to… Read more
I’ve been reading through the back catalog of Digital Camera magazine, from the first issues available for the iPad back in 2009 or so. There’s been a few things which have been amusing: Teleconverters back then were apparently a great way to get extra reach basically for free. Just avoid those 3x teleconverters – those… Read more
Here’s what I want from the mythical D400 (or D7300 – I’m not picky about model names). Because obviously Nikon reads this blog and uses it to drive all their product decisions. ≥ 50 image buffer. In 14-bit RAW. ≥ 10 FPS. I’ll even accept complete viewfinder blackout if it means getting beyond 10 FPS.… Read more
Evidently, when Time Machine encounters a file that’s open and being written to (e.g. a Safari download), it sits and watches the file, periodically copying the new data to the backup. As opposed to going off and copying everything else first, and then coming back to the open file. This has the lovely effect that… Read more
I’ve been looking forward to trying Mac OS X 10.9’s “advanced” (i.e. not-transmitting-my-life-story-to-Apple) dictation, as a potential competitor to Dragon Dictate. Unfortunately, it’s – against all odds – even more embarrassing than Siri. For example: This test, of the coolest names built-in dictation.) Nope, not important. If you’re..Reasonably built night, That was true Samaritan and… Read more
Officially, Apple claims that you can store your last 30 days of photos in iCloud via Photo Streams. This is true only if you don’t have very many. If you actually take a lot of photos, iCloud boots your arse out and doesn’t let you use Photo Streams anymore. At all. 24/09/13 6:54:08.457 PM PhotoStreamAgent[305]:… Read more