AKA: What happened to Serrano?
For years, I've used Joyent Shared Hosting, née TextDrive, to host my websites. You might recall that I was notified that those service were going away. Well, one of the founders of TextDrive announced he was coming to the rescue and that our accounts would be moved to a new home.
I was happy to hear that, although I'd already racked a Mac mini at Macminicolo. In fact, the site you're reading is served from it. Still, some of my domains remained at their old location, because some of them were so old that moving them was a big undertaking.
About three weeks ago, the server at Joyent (called "Jones") disappeared. I tried repeatedly to contact TextDrive, who was supposed to be supporting me.
I didn't get any good help. After three days, I got confirmation I was screwed, and that it was an accident; Joyent had shut off the servers prematurely, before my account was migrated. I was told that TextDrive had a backup and would spin up a virtual machine.
Here we are, a couple weeks later, and still no machine nor access to backups. You might have landed here, because I've started redirecting domains to this. I'll attempt to restore the other sites soon. Sorry about the mess.
My four-year-old daughter would love this!
Hello Kitty Airstream
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Steve Huff's review says autofocus is much improved, as is my other main gripe about the X100: the macro mode. More specifically, the "bubble" distance at which you have to switch to macro mode to autofocus, which used to be way too far out.
"Close focus distance has improved and you can now focus really close without even being in macro mode, as close as 0.21 meters."
Nice! Sounds like this is a great revision.
The Fuji X100s Camera Review - The S Stands for Sexy! By Steve Huff | Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo
My full and detailed Fuji X100s camera review! Is it better than the classic Fuji X100? Find out and see with plenty of samples and comparisons in the real world review from Steve Huff.
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I'm an owner of Nik's very nice Silver Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro. They were acquired by Google, which I thought was bad news, and luckily I have so far been proved wrong.
They just announced a price drop of the complete collection, to $149 from $499. That's a stellar price, and less than I paid for just one of them. They're also giving free upgrades to those who already own one of the components, so check your email if you do. (Mine was caught in a spam filter, which is apparently common, based on the G+ thread.)
Nik Collection Price Drop
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"...the option that seemed to make the most sense was to embrace iCloud and Core Data as the new sync solution of choice. We spent a considerable amount of time on this effort, but iCloud and Core Data syncing had issues that we simply could not resolve."
Ouch. Glad to hear that a rejuvenated NNW is coming, though.
NetNewsWire and iCloud
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Hm. True enough, I suppose. In fact, it's also true that I never use Google Reader as anything but the back-end syncing source for my various RSS readers, mostly Reeder. Hopefully Marco's right about the ultimate good that will come of this.
Google Reader shutting down July 1 – Marco.org
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The video is pretty Apple-like in its presentation, although it would have been nice to see the device actually do something. At its price, the Pixel is competing with full-featured small laptops like the MacBook Air, where it really seems best suited for people who want something like an iPad, but with a keyboard.
Still, it looks nice, and the screen sounds great. We'll have to see how well it works and how long it takes for the price to come down.
The Chromebook Pixel, for what’s next
Chromebooks were designed to make computing speedy, simple and secure. For many of you, they have become the perfect, additional (and yes, a...
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