Alec Kinnear

What AV features do matter when choosing equipment

There’s only a few characteristics which matter when choosing AV equipment. By focusing on what matters, you’ll enjoy better equipment for less.

AV Industry Audio and Video Scams over the Years

Watch your money carefully. Check any innovation out up close before you jump on board. Spatial Audio is just the latest scam.

How to change the keyboard shortcuts on macOS

The huge issue with the Apple method is that those shortcuts have to be painfully added by hand on every Mac you own, now or in the future.

M1 MacBooks and Open Clamshell: Thumbshell Mode

Apple, either let us turn off the screen when in clamshell mode, or open up the API’s to let Panaitu build a tool which will do it for us.

WordPress 6.2 breaks many sites and plugins: here’s how to repair the damage

WP HTTP no longer sets HTTP referrer and MySQL escaping picks up new strings.

Video of the Week: Chasing Shackleton

In 2017, adventurer and ecologist Tim Jarvis recreated Ernest Shackleton’s journey by boat from Antarctic to South Georgia Island.

How important is the difference between DxO DeepPrime and DeepPrime XD

The difference is not huge. The claims for image improvement are overblown as are the claims about false detail and imaginary textures.

Adventures in Autoplay and Sticky Video UX

Both visitor and publisher benefit from simple, intuitive rules. For a visitor to feel comfortable, it’s essential that site behaviour is predictable.

Short film contest – $100K in cash prizes

Nanlite insists all the films must be new, so it won’t be other festival retreads and films from 2021. The competition is open until 31 May.

DNSmadeasy.com miscounting queries, charging thousands in dubious overages

Check your DNSmadeeasy overage charges carefully. “Our counting system is broken” is not an excuse many judges would accept.

Two ways Prompt to Continue Watching can improve your video site

Both LMS and video-on-demand sites benefit from an are-you-still-watching system, but with very different duration.

Lunar Monitor Control for M1 Macs

Lunar is powerful and ambitious software. No one else has taken on Apple’s crippling of monitor controls in quite the same head-on way.

Privatising Journaling: Ray Dalio’s big mistake in Principles: Your Guided Journal

Ray Dalio, famous investor turned non-fiction writer and historian of investment (Dalio’s descriptions of the decades through which he traded will be invaluable source of insight into the market of that half century in as little as fifty years when there will no longer be any living witnesses. He’s decided to share his system for […]