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A filter mount for the Sony Xperia 1 V and 1 IV
The Sony Xperia 1 series of phones are an awesome pro-photogramy mobile phones, but there is one caveat – beyond a protective case, no company makes accessories for them! if you look on the Reddit SonyXperia forum, a frequent question asks if there are any compatible filter mounts? Almost everyone either replies with a “no”…
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Candle: The Power of the Flame on the Nintendo Switch
I bought the game Candle: The Power of the Flame for the Nintendo Switch. It is a puzzle platformer. The game itself is beautiful, and while I am still in the beginning, I am enjoying it. My only complaint is that the text size in the speech bubbles is so small I can barely read…
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How to factory reset an old HP laptop running Windows 10.
I have an old HP laptop. How old? The original OS it was sold with was Windows Vista. When we bought it from Best Buy it came with a free Windows 7 upgrade CD-set in the box. When Windows 10 was release, I upgraded the OS, since the upgrade was free. Over the years and…
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How to resolve Windows Update error code 80072EFE on Windows 7?
I recently bought a 2010 Sony Vaio laptop for a video project. The laptop runs Windows 7, and it has a recovery portion. After performing a factory reset, I tried running Windows Update, but all I got in return was error code 80072EFE. It had been many years since I had used Windows 7, but…
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Windows 11 and Sony Memory Stick
If you try to access a Sony Memory Stick on Windows 11 and you do not receive the usual prompt to choose what to do when inserting removable storage or you cannot see said storage in Windows Explorer, it is most likely not the storage media. In my case Windows 11 does not show my…
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Asteroid City
Just got back from seeing Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. The movie in one word – AWESOME!
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The smartphone killed so much tech creativity
Lately I have been into vintage Sony devices. Just looking through the vast number of Walkman, digital cameras, Clie and Vaio product lines that Sony used to produce, made me realize how much creativity and variety has been lost thanks to the smartphone. Devices, high quality ones, like cameras, camcorders, portable audio devices, radios, disc…
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Azure Static Web Apps, Custom Domains, and Cloudflare
My AlexandarTzanov.com profile website became inaccessible after switching to Cloudflare DNS from Google Domains DNS. I had to go this route because Google announced that they are going to sell the Google Domains service to Squarespace. For some reason this was not announced via email to Google Domains customers! At least I did not receive…
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WordPress Cache-Control Headers
You might see in your WordPress Site Health report that your site is not using Cache-Control headers. You can find this under the page cache test on the Site Health page. Usually this is a result of not having an activated plug-in for managing page cache. I have also seen this being blamed on Apache’s…
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John Carmack about working with Steve Jobs
I came across this post while cleaning up some old “read” links. It was good to read it again. It was a reminder about how when you know what you are doing you can withstand a lot, and that you should not be afraid to “think different”! “I trust you John, do whatever you think…