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Alfred Hitchcock is one of my favorite film directors, if not my favorite of all time. Lately, I've been going back through his work. Starting last weekend with "Strangers on a Train", then "The Lady Vanishes", and last night I watched "Vertigo". I had not seen "Vertigo" for likely 30 years, and...

Investors Business Daily is celebrating their 40th anniversary with a pretty decent sale. You can get 4 months of IBD digital for introductory price of $40. After the 4 months are over the price jumps to regular price of $34.95 per month. However, I don't see anything about being able to cancel...

I watched "Argylle" last night on Apple TV. This is a farcical take on spy movies. Basic plot is that a novelist that writes spy novels finds that her latest manuscript is imitating real life just a bit too much. Soon she finds herself on the run trying to recover a thumb drive containing...

Paramount announces they are producing another Star Trek prequel movie. This untitled movie will take place before the events of the Star Trek (2009) movie. If you remember, the movie Star Trek (2009) was a prequel to The Original Series (TOS) from TV in 1966. Previously, the prequel to TOS was...

I started a thread about refurbished computers which morphed into a thread about mini PC's. After reading some replies in that thread, talking to some friends, and doing research I'm coming around to the idea of a mini PC. I'm currently looking at this one, but there are others...

I'm considering getting DW a cheap desktop computer. She needs to be able to run MS Office, surf the web, use dual monitors, and connect a web cam. At some point it should be able to be upgraded to Win11, but if it's cheap enough, it won't matter. It need not be anything fancy. I found this at...

The US has filed a landmark lawsuit against Apple which accuses the tech giant of monopolising the smartphone market and crushing competition. In the lawsuit, the justice department alleges the company used its control of the iPhone to illegally limit competitors and consumer options. The...

There is a new word based game on NY Times game page--Strands. It's kind of like those word search games where there are letters in a grid and you circle the words that go horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. However, in Strands the words can go in any directions: vertically and/or...

Was watching FreeVee TV two nights ago and they kept repeating ads for Intuit Quickbooks. One ad captured my attention as I noticed the profit and loss numbers in the little inset window next to the photographer kept changing. Then I noticed that the math was wrong. Then I noticed that as the...

Every four years there is leap day, an extra day to set the calendar back to accuracy. But who wants an extra day of winter? Not me. I wonder what it would take to get a movement started to get the extra leap day put to June 31st? Anybody with me?

Since there are many posts about photo and video editing software preferences here I thought I'd pass along the news that Adobe Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Premiere are on sale. Elements is the photo editing software. Premiere is the video editing software. (Note Elements is NOT the...

Doing some stock research I ran across a company called Beamr Imaging, BMR. Their product is a new video compression algorithm that significantly reduces file size without compromising picture quality. The new file compression scheme is backwards compatible with existing hardware but to really...

I changed my signature just now and I stumbled upon my Thank You list. I had well over 100 of them. However, since leaving that page I am not able to locate it again. How can I find my Thank You page?

I was stunned to find out that Microsoft has an email client included with the Windows OS. This is NOT Microsoft Outlook but is called simply Microsoft Mail. It appears to be a stripped down version of Outlook. While it lacks the many bells and whistles of Outlook it presents a cleaner user...

This doesn't bother me much but it sure is a topic of conversation with my DW. We have friends that we always considered were better off than we are. The man is 66, is retired and drawing SS; his wife is 65, is still employed and we estimate earns about $95K to $100K per year. The woman also is...

The Marques Brownlee Blind Smartphone Camera Test for 2023 is complete! How it works: 20 of the latest smartphones take identical photographs of the same subject matter. There are three photos taken--regular daylight lighting, night time low lighting, and portrait mode. All of these photos have...

Apple has begun making payments in a long-running class action lawsuit over claims it deliberately slowed down certain iPhones in the US. Complainants will receive a cut of a $500 million settlement which works out to around $92 per claim. The US case dates back to December 2017, when Apple...

I was looking through some boxes of stuff I've saved over the years and I came upon a bunch of ticket stubs from concerts I had attended years ago, when I was in my 20's and 30's. Check out the prices! This was back when people bought music on physical media like vinyl LPs and the artists and...

Here is the annual recap of my family's cell phone plan with US Mobile. Along with DW and me we have two boys in their mid-20's. With 9,501 talk time minutes we are in the top 17% of all their users. 17,419 texts is top 2%. 136.97 GB of data used is top 11% They say we saved $1,568 over the...

One of my favorites Android apps is on its annual holiday sale. Nova Launcher Prime, normally $4.95 is on sale for only $.49. Yes, that's $.49! https://www.droid-life.com/2023/12/26/nova-launcher-prime-goes-into-yearly-sale-mode-drops-to-0-49/

I booted up my computer this morning and after entering my PIN was greeted by a window pop-up telling me that AdGuard would install. I thought that was odd as I had used AdGuard in the past but uninstalled it after I started using uBlock as recommended by many on this forum. I was given an...

I was going to post to the "Baseball 2023" thread but it was locked. So I guess this is the "Baseball 2024" thread. The Dodgers spent another wad of money on a free agent. After signing Shohei Ohtani $700 million over 20 years they just committed to paying Yoshinobu Yamamoto to $325 million...

Where can I get the best deal on Adobe Acrobat PDF program? I'd be looking for a one-time purchase, and not a subscription. Not looking for the read-only program I can get that just about anywhere, but I want the one where I can edit documents. I've been using Nitro Pro for several years and...

Chevrolet made a powerfully emotional Christmas commercial. While I was watching it I got something in my eyes, like I was cutting onions or something, I dunno...

Submitted for your approval. "Award Winning Donuts" Ya, sure.