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Re: Contact Us

madmarv — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:07:00 -0000

How does it look in model space? Is it the symbol or the solid circle?

My guess is that the structure style is the culprit. You may have to dig into the structure style settings and debug. Or, if you have a drawing that does display the correct structure style, import that style into the troubled drawing and overwrite the style settings.

Re: Public Parking Lots in Honolulu

madmarv — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:57:27 -0000

The City must have cut off open access after I wrote the article. I don't see any way to get to that raw map anymore. I think this map is pretty accurate. Or at least I recognize most of the municipal garages that it lists. http://www.mapquest.com/map...

Re: AutoCAD font corruption when plotting to PDF

madmarv — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:26:12 -0000

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with Revit. However, Revit must have some way to edit or customize their print-to-PDF function. You just need to find their options screen. Or, if you use Adobe's PDF Writer or Bluebeam to create PDFs, you can set the font embedding options in those programs.

Re: WATCH THIS

madmarv — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:54:10 -0000

In a similar vein as War Photographer, you should watch Bang Bang Club (http://www.imdb.com/title/t.... It's on Amazon Instant but not Prime.

Re: Lightroom Catalog Troubleshooting

madmarv — Sun, 25 May 2014 20:04:12 -0000

Create a new one and .lrcat will be added on to whatever you name it.

Re: Toughtech duo backup solution

madmarv — Thu, 08 May 2014 21:59:18 -0000

Think you meant to say that you use RAID 1, not RAID 0. http://www.thegeekstuff.com...

Re: Submit Your Best “Action” Photos!

madmarv — Tue, 06 May 2014 17:45:07 -0000

Fire Jam.

Re: Phlearn Photo Contest: Slow Down That Shutter Speed For Us Please

madmarv — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:54:58 -0000

Tressa Spinning Poi.

About a 2 second exposure @ f/11, ISO 100 to expose for the fire and a SB-900 (gelled w/1/4 CTO) at full power for fill.

Re: A Fourth of July | 2013

madmarv — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:19:26 -0000

Hahaha, you're a brave man to post these to where everyone can see them. I hope your holiday went well and have a good weekend..

Re: Lightroom Catalog Troubleshooting

madmarv — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:26:57 -0000

I've found that extreme or repetitive cases of LR catalog corruption also require the removal of the whole %APPDATA%\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\ folder and not just the preferences file. I suspect there may be a problem with some of the plug-ins or presets I've loaded into LR. Unfortunately, there's no way to figure out which one is the problem while LR keeps crashing.

Anyway, when I renamed the Lightroom folder, a new Lightroom folder is created by Lightroom. LR is now happy and clean so everything works again.

Re: Poll: Dark Side of the Rainbow

madmarv — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:33:04 -0000

Wizard of what?

Re: Vampire Serum Teaser 1 – shot on a TS3Cine slow motion camera

madmarv — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:31:59 -0000

Sweet camera work there.

Re: Any device can be a Ting device

madmarv — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:01:45 -0000

It has to deal with your settings for auto-updates. For example, I set Google Play to auto-update my apps only over wi-fi. When I tether my phone to a hotspot, my phone thinks its on wi-fi and will download whenever it can. When I'm on 4G/3G the phone knows the difference and refrains from downloading. This may not be a big issue for apps auto-updating but it is a very large issue for podcasts and digital media in general. The 2 - 3 GB of data I used to use only covered a fraction of the downloads because I scheduled the podcast downloads to occur at 4 a.m. when I was home and plugged into wall power.

Also, there is no way to make a phone favor a particular wi-fi network over another. It will remain on one network until the signal is lost and then scan for the strongest signal of whatever remembered network is in range. My Galaxy S2 will automatically disconnect from 4G/3G and log on to wi-fi when I'm with range of my work or home wi-fi networks. If I were to tether to hotspot I carry around all the time, the phone would never jump onto another wi-fi network on its own. I'd have to manually switch networks or turn off the hotspot.

Re: Any device can be a Ting device

madmarv — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:40:19 -0000

The big flaw in the plan is in downloads. I set my data-hogging apps (mostly the Google Play store and my podcatcher) to download over wi-fi. If I were to tether my phone to a Ting hotspot I would drive the data usage through the roof. I used to average between 2 - 3 GB/month when I was on an unlimited plan w/ my old carrier. Since switching to Ting and allocating my big downloads to wifi, I now use < 500 MB/month with no withdrawal symptoms.

As a side note, battery drain would also become an issue if you have two devices tethered together constantly. The device acting as the hotspot would need an external power source. I had a friend who did this a lot and ended up strapping his hotspot to a laptop-sized lithium battery so that he could keep it on all the time.

Re: Episode 18 - Toasted Nation

madmarv — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:58:09 -0000

Congratulations Glenn (on getting married). Congratulations Prager (on the Rev3 sale).

I like this format and hope you continue to do more shows like this. Are you guys going to stick to techie topics?

re: T4i video auto-focus. Camera manufacturers will put features with wide appeal into the lower end cameras before or at the same time as the high end bodies because they make most of their profit from the cheaper cameras.

Re: Laggy AutoCAD Mouse and Unresolved CUIX Files

madmarv — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:15:36 -0000

I'm sorry, I don't have AutoCAD for Mac. But if Autodesk laid out the menus the same way, you should be able to find Action Recorder under the Tools menu. If it does not have a Tools menu and if the Ribbon does not have the Action Recorder under the Manage tab, try typing ACTMANAGER into the command line.

Re: Changing Your Twitter Password Is Not As Simple As You Might Think - SocialTimes.com

madmarv — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:20:17 -0000

Man, you are doing it wrong. Have you ever changed your password before OAuth was put in place? I understand the panic you get when you think you've been hacked, but that is just an example of cutting off the limb you're standing on. I've got 50+ applications that authenticate through Twitter's OAuth. And once you've cut off access, you have to go back to the application to re-request access. If you cut off everything by default, you won't remember which apps were connected.

Re: Nikon D7000 Video Test

madmarv — Sat, 14 May 2011 06:03:59 -0000

@victorcajiao Cool test vid. I've shot a bit of video here and there w/ my D7000, but I haven't done all that much with it. The post processing to make the video presentable is a bit more work that I'd like to do. Have you tried hand holding video? I've got one video I shot in low light that turned out pretty well. A slow shutter (like 1/30 of a sec.) doesn't really hurt your image in video.

http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: Which browser do you use as a Default?

madmarv — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:52:47 -0000

I use Firefox as my primary browser. I use IE 8 when I have to use activeX for some obscure app or other.

Re: Using The Amazon Android Cloud Player - ThinkMobile

madmarv — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:44:01 -0000

So does Cloud Drive look like a Dropbox replacement?

Re: Using The Amazon Android Cloud Player - SocialTimes.com

madmarv — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:44:01 -0000

So does Cloud Drive look like a Dropbox replacement?

Re: Hawaii Klout Portal Launched

madmarv — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:25:28 -0000

This reminds me of something I heard about 6 months ago. The Marketing Over Coffee podcast was asking its audience for their favorite reputation metrics and services. I think even then Klout was the only common thread, but it wasn't used as it was intended. They used the Klout score to filter out robots. I think Chris Penn wrote a script that would auto-block his followers if their Klout score was less than 15 or 20. And, this system worked great for that purpose. But, they don't give much weight to someone's Klout once it is above a minimum threshold.

Re: Unscientific But Interesting Speed Test: Moto Droid w/Froyo vs. Nexus One w/Gingerbread Displaying App Management List (video) - ThinkMobile

madmarv — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:48:06 -0000

Todd, it looks like the N1 is caching the list and icons. But the screen jump does look snappier.

Re: Unscientific But Interesting Speed Test: Moto Droid w/Froyo vs. Nexus One w/Gingerbread Displaying App Management List (video) - SocialTimes.com

madmarv — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:48:06 -0000

Todd, it looks like the N1 is caching the list and icons. But the screen jump does look snappier.

Re: Dell Looking Glass 7-inch Tablet to Use Ancient Android OS 2.1 At Release? - ThinkMobile

madmarv — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:18:50 -0000

4GB of RAM? Assuming that really meant 4GB of flash memory, isn't that really skimpy?