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Re: How To Shave Like Your Grandpa

Mike Panic — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:41:11 -0000

I've been using a Futur razor since picking one up in Austria back in 1999, been on the same bar of DR Harris lavender soap for nearly 4 years now. I couldn't imagine shaving with anything but platinum coated double sided razors, a bar of shave soap and a badger brush.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » 52-in-1 Cardreader Now With Bluetooth

Mike Panic — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:31:03 -0000

Call me when they make an internal version, the last thing I need is another small doo-hicky on my desk to clutter it up more.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » iPod Dock Extender Lets You Dock With Your Skin On

Mike Panic — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:48:12 -0000

Thank you! I am using the same skin that is in that picture, the iSkin evo3 - it is above and beyond the best skin I've used but it does not let me use my dock and has prevented me from buying an iHome or similar device for the bedroom. Sadly, it does not appear to be available yet...

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Pantone hueyPRO

Mike Panic — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:34:48 -0000

From my experiance, the best software is from Gretag Macbeth, and it costs about the same for the eye-one display.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » OhGizmo Review - db clay myDuctbills Kit + Stampage Wallet

Mike Panic — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:04:04 -0000

The gafers tape wallet is nice, but for less money I'll stick with my leather J-Fold that has held up for more then 2 years and still looks new.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » PanDigital’s 15 Inch Digital Picture Frame

Mike Panic — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:21:42 -0000

I've seen these in person, they are pretty impressive.

Re: Joost Invitations Up For Grabs!

Mike Panic — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:18:38 -0000

I'll take one...

Re: 5 Great Unofficial Gmail Themes

Mike Panic — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:04:11 -0000

I used stylish for a while to reskin my Gmail, it was probably the most unstable plugin evar. So glad Google took this upon themselves to handle.

Re: 2008/12/16/twitter-dell-million/

Mike Panic — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:04:26 -0000

My eyes see only two ways of monetizing Twitter.

1. Ads served on pages, even though the vast majority of hard-core Twitterers use a 3rd party app...

2. Premium services for a fee.

Neither sound that appealing, but I could be over-looking something.

Re: 2008/12/01/dailymile/

Mike Panic — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:32 -0000

I've been on DailyMile since August and logged nearly 2,000 miles. Great site, founders, great people, amazing community. I'm on a lot of social networking sites, this one is seriously at the tops of my list for usability, features and has zero of the crap associated with most. Logging the miles has helped me push through some goals and achieve new ones with the help and advice of others.

Re: Orbis / Ray Flash Comparison & Review

Mike Panic — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:37:05 -0000

I'd be more interested to see sample shots of people, since these really aren't intended for macro purposes. Idealy, if you could tripod mount both, same settings, same light output, same post processing.. with a person standing still against a wall, that would give the best comparison I think.

I'm having seen the RayFlash in person, not the Orbis yet. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around spending an extra $100 for the RayFlash right now with the only benefit I can see is that it mounts to my flash and I don't have to hand hold it. Having shot with the Alien Bees ringflash, I'll be the first to tell you that a 5d with grip and 24-70 f/2.8L attached to it all starts to really suck after about 20-30 minutes of shooting, weighing several many pounds. Along with the fact that I'd have to spend another $450 for a bucket o' batteries to go on location with it, either one of these starts to look really appealing.

Re: Orbis / Ray Flash Comparison & Review

Mike Panic — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:37:05 -0000

Re: Why I heart Dreamhost

Mike Panic — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:01:17 -0000

I've been with them for a few years and the fresh new web host smell is starting to fade. I have MySQL server issues with them every other month, the last one caused an error500 to show up on my site for more than an hour. Trouble ticket submitted, 4 hours later (3 hours after the problem was resolved) the official answer was, "the down time was due to the load your sites using WordPress put on our servers, here's a list of stuff you should do to reduce the load." Sorry, that's not an acceptable answer. According to my stats, at the time the site went down there were barely 50 users on my one site, as an article just started to get popular on StumbleUpon, total uniques for the day were only 10-15% higher though. Their other suggestion was that I upgrade my hosting plan to their premium account to prevent this from happening again.

This is a very common problem with web hosts, DreamHost is one of the biggest - they oversell their disk space and bandwidth, so it looks good from the outside but as soon as you start to push their limits, it fails. They hope you never use the "all you can eat" marketing ploys. I use maybe 1% between several sites of the bandwidth and disk space allocated to me, because they give you SOO much. If I ever did want to max out the amount of space I am paying for, I'm sure it would have a negative impact on whoever elese is sharing that particular server space with me.

Re: Why I heart Dreamhost

Mike Panic — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:01:17 -0000

Re: I Shoot In RAW

Mike Panic — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:36:51 -0000

I have a love / hate relationship with these discussions. Many photographers, not pointing a finger here, feel they are somehow better by shooting in RAW than those who shoot JPG. The reality is, the camera is a tool, period. If I'm snapping some quick photos for ebay, I see no reason to shoot in RAW. Moreover, I've shot a good number of stock images for iStock in JPG and done very little post and had them all accepted.

Sometimes, and only sometimes, photographers should be better at being photographers than digital developers. I work in this industry and often here too many shooter say, "O hell, why bother setting a custom white balance, I'll just fix it in post, that's why I shoot RAW." Sadly, they are mistaken because that same shooter won't bother to at the very least, shoot a grey card in the scene so they have some reference point. What color is that bride's dress? White, eggshell, cream, ivory?

Re: I Shoot In RAW

Mike Panic — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:36:51 -0000

Re: Blog Action Day 2007 is Coming!

Mike Panic — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:31:17 -0000

I'm going to say 18,000 - I honestly hope it is a LOT more than that though.

Re: The File

Mike Panic — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:51:09 -0000

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Re: and then there is more

Mike Panic — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:08:48 -0000

I'd contact Toyota of America and the Owner of the dealership, let him know that you were sold items that were not even viable for your car and you will peruse this with the BBB if the matter is not cleared up. Trust me, no business, especially a car dealership in today's economy wants to deal with the BBB right now.

Re: Nalgene and their awesome “Refillable Water Bottle” Campaign

Mike Panic — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:53:25 -0000

I apologize if this seems like comment spam, you don’t have a “contact” page for me to get in contact with privately. I am currently running a contest inspired by BlogActionDay.org, which I am participating in, giving away a Nalgene Refill Not Landfill bottle to help cut down on plastic bottle waste. Thought you may be interested in it.

Re: $10 RIPT Apparel: Heart Break

Mike Panic — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:44:43 -0000

Picked one up, really like the quality of the shirts - have ordered before, great design and color combo too.