Dehaze is interesting and a good advancement, but it’s akin to using a sharpen filter on a photo that was a little out of focus or had motion blur to me. It takes a guess and is sometimes right, but having the camera pick up the right pixels during the shot seems more accurate to my eyes. Somehow the post production…

If nothing I say could convince you, that’s fine, but it’s not particularly rational approach. In reality, it’s usually not impact at all, but usually your lens lightly being scrubbed against something else hard, the edge of another piece of kit in your bag when the cover pops off, the sand and grit that accumulates…

A protective lens makes sense depending on your lens. For cheap setups, it’s probably overkill. For SLR users, the UV/protective filters are there to save your incredibly expensive glass. It’s usually a < $40 lens to protect a $500-$2000 lens. In the field, it’s also incredibly handy to swap UV filters when something…

It’s probably worth mentioning that some of these filters are readily applied via software, where others, such as UV, Polarizing, Macro or ND cannot be easily emulated in post production. B&W or color tinting such as warming or cooling is trivial to apply digitally.

That mock up looks great and would be a vast improvement in my opinion. Sadly, they wouldn’t make it as it’d compete with the Grand Cherokee.

As a Jeep owner since the mid-90’s (one Commanche, one XJ and one Grand Cherokee), I can safely say they have thoroughly botched every recall that has impacted each one of my vehicles. The bad safety belt notice went out 2 years after the recall was announced and parts were 2 months out from there. The airbag recall…

I moved to a standard leather and haven’t looked back. Hair wipes off clean, nothing stains and neither of my dogs were terribly interested in it. I did get a few claw scuff marks, but as mentioned in the article they buff out easily. No idea on suede - had a dog that liked to lick so I didn’t want to go that route.…

This must depend on the microfiber... I had a microfiber couch that attracted pet hair like a magnet and it ended up stuck in the weave. While easy to clean stains, getting hair out was next to impossible so I was glad to see it go when I moved.

The that generalization were true, all of the more expensive cities in the area (Denver proper, Westminster, Lakewood, Parker, Greenwood Village) would all be higher on the list....

Aurora is actually the cheapest city to live in the entire Denver metro. So no, that generalization doesn’t hold up. I live just to the south of it where things like rent are twice the going rate in Aurora. (Crime rates are pretty high for the area so it’s not always the best place to live.)

My condolences to his family for their loss. We were both in the Slackline and Climbing scene and while we didn’t see eye to eye on many things and had only met a couple times, it’s always a tragedy to lose someone that way.

Note in the video at 1:10, he has the alternative names noted, including wash, corgi, chemmy...

Maybe they are right. Born in ‘81 and yes, I’ll spend more money for certain tech features. I drive around 30,000+ miles / year and I’ve already ruled out buying a car without adaptive cruise on my next car.

Broomball would be a safe one to add to the list of unusual sports. For those unfamiliar with it, take hockey, remove those sissy skates, heavy pads and sticks that work. Replace them with tennis shoes, whatever helmet you can find and a little plastic flipper on a half length broom stick that gives you no control.…

I used to use SnagIt a lot, but you should check out GreenShot - it has all of the features of SnagIt, a giant list of additional features, is currently supported and freeware.

You have been lucky, be content with that.

(Disclaimer: Secunia is a solution partner with my company, they have given me free demos and I've had one on one training with their engineers and reps. I don't have any prior affiliation with Patch My PC. Personally, I think they fit similar situations, but there are cases where I might recommend one over the other.)

I already use Secunia PSI (Free), which is more of a security focused product that does much the same, but I'll have to check this out. I occasionally deploy Secunia's enterprise tools (CSI) for work and love it, but their consumer version PSI is a little buggy in spots (hangs occasionally).

Just up front, I take my packs seriously. I've hiked a couple thousand miles with my current couple packs. I would have no use for a generic pattern that has no fitment. Besides for the squared off generic build they have the materials will cost more than just buying something similar. Just to clarify, something like…

As someone who has professionally sewn outdoor gear, I cannot recommend sewing a backpack for anyone as a surprise gift. If you have great skills, have extensive fitting measurements and access to quality materials, sure it could turn out, but custom backpacks done right are not a project to start mid-December. A good…