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CES 2012 Aftermath

I took a lot of the BCCHardware Crew to CES 2012 this January and we put in some long hours and got a lot of work done.  Check out our coverage over at BCCHardware.com – if you want to pick and choose, check out the list below. CES roadLAN 2012  CES Kickoff Samsung 2012 Press [...]

CES 2012 In The Bag

Once again, I was blessed to be able to attend CES in Las Vegas this January.  The company I own – BCCHardware.com, managed to scrape together enough money to secure a house where a total of five of us stayed and took in North America’s largest tech show. This year marked Microsoft’s last keynote and [...]

New Years Resolution – My Only One

Well, it has been way too long since I’ve updated this site, and I only have one resolution this year, and that’s to make this site more inhabitable to those of you that decide to spend your precious time checking out all of the projects that I do. This year has actually been a banner [...]

HDR – Video? Yes Indeed.

Online galleries are fully of over saturated HDR pictures that consists more of exposure blending that actual “High Dynamic Range” processing.  Still, the effect is pretty interesting and if done properly – doesn’t look horrible and can enhance a photo.  The downside is that many people overuse HDR and saturate too much for an unrealistic [...]

Canon To Do Good In-Camera HDR

It looks like Canon is filing a patent to do some “good” in camera HDR in the near future and they have redone the way HDR is done in order to do this on-the-fly. Typically, High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is done by post-processing a few different exposures onto a single image. Canon is doing [...]

Doritos, Viral Videos and Billy Reid

We had a chance to sit down with Billy Reid regarding video creation, how to make them viral and who is staying ahead of the curve.  Aparently, Doritos is a company that gets it.  At the very least, it appears that someone at Doritos has teens that watch Youtube.  Doritos has been hosting a contest [...]

SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Review

Product: SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card Provided By: SanDisk Price: Find Lowest Price Online Introduction: CompactFlash cards are not very popular anymore as Secure Digital cards are typically much cheaper.  That being said, pro-sumer Digital SLR cameras as well as full Professional SLR cameras use CompactFlash as it seems to be more reliable and [...]

Weekly Tech Update and More

This evening (Sunday, September 13) marks episode #8 of Weekly Tech Update and tonight we will be having Daniel Guenter on the show.  He is a computer programmer, runs a cool programming blog – slagd.com and is actually my web host.  Tonight we will be talking about Microsoft’s Open Source Initiative, PS3 Sales and 24 [...]

Customer Service Isn’t Dead – Just Hard To Find

Over the past few weeks and even months, I’ve spent a fair bit of time at a couple of stores.  It’s not that I need a bunch of stuff, it’s just that the customer service and knowledgable people at these places are absolutely fantastic.  The first place that I started to hang out as I [...]

Weekly Tech Update #2 Tonight – Aug.3

Last Tuesday we launched WeeklyTechUpdate over at BCCHardware.com and tonight we record Episode #2. Tonight we will have Jason Schneider live in Studio here at the BCCHardware HQ, and may have a call-in from Daniel Guenter – Programmer over at SLAGD. If Daniel is unable to make it tonight, we will be hosting a live [...]