Airtame - til salg

Jeg har 2 stk. uåbnet ubrugte Airtames til salg.

Officiel pris hos Airtame = 373,75 euro incl forsendelse.

Jeg sælger for 1.000 DKK pr. stk. incl forsendelse (kun danmark)

Musikvideo: MANNE - Kom videre

En lille gruppe entusiastiske fotografer lavede denne lille musik video for Manne Rossmanns fra TV3 serien Big Business på Vestegnen.


MANNE - Kom videre

Why did I buy the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription?

I already had a license for Photoshop CS6 but I really wanted to get Premiere Pro and After Effects for video making so I did some calculations.

My assumptions was that prices would not change significantly and that Adobe would upgrade applications every second year and that I would upgrade every time.

I saw 3 options.

Option 1:

Buy Premiere Pro + After Effects and subsequently upgrade.
- Initial cost DKK 7913 for Premiere Pro and DKK 9775 for After effects, in total DKK 17688. Subsequent upgrades for all applications would be DKK 1925 for Photoshop, DKK 1350 for Premiere Pro, DKK 1575 for After Effects, in total DKK 4850. With the subscription cost at DKK 5316 a year it would seem that subscribing is more expensive but remember the initial cost. It takes some years before it turns around.

Option 2:

Buy Master Collection and subsequently upgrade.
- Initial cost DKK 26088 and DKK 4650 for ugrades. Again cheaper than subscription but again because of the initial cost it would take years before subscription is more expensive.

Option 3:

Subscription. DKK 5317 a year. First year though DKK 3252 for existing owners of valid licenses.


Of course if I had the Master Collection license already the benefit would be much less and probably not worth choosing the subscription.



So with those costs and with the extra benefits I choose subscription.

Do you OWN calculations and make your decision based on that.

Compware vs BJ-Trading

Når jeg handler it-udstyr på nettet anvender jeg http://www.edbpriser.dk/ for at finde billigste webshop jeg har tiltro til. Jeg handler sjældent/aldrig hos webshops jeg slet ikke kender eller har hørt om.

Jeg står og skal have købt 4 stk harddiske til min NAS, enten 2 TB eller 3 TB så jeg checker pt ofte priserne da de er meget svingende for tiden. I et stykke tid har http://www.bj-trading.com/ haft laveste pris på en 2 TB HD og det passede mig fint da jeg har handlet hos dem flere gange. Så en dag dukkede et nyt navn op som de billigste, http://www.compware.dk/. Jeg kender dem ikke men ville da lige checke dem. Med det samme kunne jeg se at jeg havde set deres webshop før og ganske rigtigt det var præcis samme shop wom BJ-Tradings bare med et andet stylesheet og logo samt meget mindre information om virksomheden. Yderligere opgav Compware BJ-Tradings adresse som deres egen, både i bunden af alle sider samt som fysisk adresse. Yderligere hostes begge websites på samme webserver, ikke i sig selv et bevis men alligevel pudsigt.

En mail til Compware og BJ-Trading for at kaste lys over dette:

Min mail:
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>Hej
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>Da jeg sad og checkede harddisk priser faldt jeg over noget meget pudsigt.
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>Jeg fandt denne webshop og da jeg har handlet en del gange hos BJ-Trading kunne jeg med det samme se at dette site lignede meget og adressen i bunden af siden matchede den på BJ-Trading.
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>Compware webshop pris kr 867
>http://www.compware.dk/comp/default.asp?side=info.asp&vn=23492720
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>BJ Trading webshop pris kr 1045
>http://www.bj-trading.dk/bjshop/default.asp?pv=WD20EARX&pn=Western%20Digital&vare=606926&f=edbp
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>
>Det rejser så nogen spørgsmål hos mig:
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>1: Er Compware = BJ-Trading og hvorfor er der så forskellige priser? Når jeg leder efter billigste pris på en vare så går jeg uden om webshops jeg ikke kender og i ovenstående eksempel ville jeg så vælge BJ-Trading. Men hvis Compware = BJ-Trading så føler jeg mig godt og grundigt snydt hvis der i flere år har været forskel i pris på de 2 webshops.
>2: Hvis Compware = BJ-Trading hvad får man så IKKE hvis man handler hos Compware ?
>
>
>Da dette gør at jeg indtil videre vil holde mig fra begge webshops håber jeg I vil kaste lys over dette.
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resulterede i følgende svar fra Compware:

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>Vi har ikke noget med B.J.Trading og gøre.
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>Med venlig hilsen
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>Compware Aps
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Spørgsmål tilbage til dem om hvorfor de så oplyser BJ-Tradings adresse på deres side er ikke blevet besvaret. BJ-Trading har heller ikke svaret min mail.

Efter min mening lugter dette langt væk og rejser følgende spørgsmål:

1: Hvis Compware ikke har noget med BJ-Trading at gøre hvorfor oplyser de så dennes adresse på deres hjemme side?
2: Hvis Compware har en relation til BJ-Trading hvorfor lyver de så om det?

Konklusion er at jeg fremover ikke vil benytte nogen af disse 2 webshops og min anbefaling til alle andre er også at holde sig væk.

Opdatering 18-12-2011: Compware har nu ændret udseende på deres webshop samt fjernet alle referencer til BJ-Tradings adresse og der er IKKE længere nogen fysisk adresse opgivet på websitet.

Mozy - online backup - Unlimited is not unlimited

Unlimited is not unlimited.


First of all I am a true believe of nothing is for free. There will always be a cost someday, somehow.

That has just happened with Mozy.

I started using that online service a couple years ago. Unlimited storage for just $105 for a year. That sounds almost too good to be true. But anyway I decided to go for it since it was so cheap.

On Mozy's homepage they advertise with big letters:

Every Photo, Every Document, Every Memory: Safe with Mozy

And when Mozy in the past has been asked the question: Unlimited, really? The response has always been that for Mozy unlimited means unlimited.

Obviously I setup my backup software to backup all data on my photo pc. That has turned out to be almost 700 GB. It took many months for that to be uploaded but finnally less than 1 month ago the data was finally uploaded. Hooray.

Well yesterday I received a surprising email. It turned out that Mozy never intended to keep their word of unlimited storage. Because I use the service to backup ALL my photos (remember they say Every Photo on the homepage) I am a bad apple that spoils it for everyone else. Forgive me for taking "Every photo" literally. Mozy decided to introduce new quota plans. They say they have done research that tells them that 50 GB for one pc or 125 GB for up to 3 pc's is more than adequate for backup in the year of 2011.

So they introduced new prices. That means if I want to renew my service when it expires in november I have to pay $1680 for 2 pc's for 2 years instead of just $210.

On Mozy's customer forum customers are outraged over this and Mozy people are kept busy editing and deleting posts. They also keep saying that they want to keep their customers but with an 800% increase in price it is crystal clear to me that they do not want me as their customer.

So I will be requesting a refund for the remaining time and then I will delete my account. I will never ever recommend Mozy to anybody.

Loosing Mozy as backup is not catastrophic for me as it has always just been number 6 backup and really just a convenient way of off site backup. But from reading in the Mozy forum it seems that many customers have relied on that service as their only backup.

I will not be replacing Mozy with another online backup solution for two reasons. I don't want to spend months waiting for the backup to complete and second the services that are left that offer "unlimited" storage throttle bandwidth so when the amount of data exceeds 200 GB the upload speed is limited to 100 kbit/s.

So instead I have ordered 2 external harddisks. These will become my future off site backup. I will backup on the first one and then place that off site. I wil then continue backups on the seond disk. After a month or so I will swap the disks around.

Canon 1D MK IV to be replaced with Canon 1D MK V!

It is rumored that even before the much anticipated Canon 1D MK IV hits the street the replacement is already in the works ready to be released. It could be released quickly in case the 1D MK IV has the same autofocus issues that 1D MK III suffered badly with.







Disclaimer: Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Journal from Namibia & Botswana trip

Sunday August 26

(Scroll down or click here for photos, photos added 27. september)

The time is 2 pm and I have just arrived in Gatwick airport in London. There is over 3 hours wait until checkin to the Windhoek flight starts. And there is nothing to do in Gatwick airport.

5 pm. People are starting to line up for checkin so I do too. While waiting for checkin to start I see a lady in another checkin queue be asked to measure her carryon bag in the bins that are all around the airport. She seems really pissed because she is sure it fits. And it does. Checking the bags seems very random though. I saw other bags on the flight that was much bigger than the one that got checked.... Tsk tsk. Whats the point of such a rule if it is not applied consistantly?

Finally checkin starts at Air Namibia desk. Before it was my turn I noticed that a lady was asked to weigh her carryon bag. And it seemed like she was told to removed something from it because of too much weight. That didn't look good because if they wanted to weigh my MiniTrekker bag then I would definately have a problem as it weighed about 12 kg which was 5 kg more than allowed. But fortnately all that happened when it was my turn was that they asked if I had a carryon bag. I answered yes and pointed to my bag on my back. And that was it. I asked for an aisle seat and if possible wih extra legroom.

Then it was time to go through security. All over the airport there are signs that you are only allowed ONE bag through security. When I was waiting to get through I saw a lady coming out with 2 bags so it looked like they meant business with that rule. But apparentl this rule too is only applied very randomly because I saw several people with more than one bag once I got through security. Oddly enough there were 2 security points. The first was the normal where bag is scanned and you go through a metal detector. A second point you had to removed your shoes so they could be scanned. Weird.

Once through security I sent a text message to Dave o let him know I had checked in. Close to 7 pm we met and went to get something to eat before the flight.

At 9.30 pm the flight left Gatwick on time. I got a nice aisleseat with extra legroom and nobody next to me so it was not as uncomfortable as these long distance flights usually is. Dave on the other hand didn't get extra legroom. He had specially asked for a seat at the doors but was told those seats would cost £50 so he just got a regular seat but he had 3 empty seats next to him.

Monday august 27

We landed on time 7.45 am in Windhoek airport. Its a small airport and we walked from the airplane to the terminal. We got our luggage fairly quickly with no problems whatso ever. Then we met the represants from Asco Car Hire who would drive us to the Asco garage so we could get the first backie. Everybody at Asco were very friendly and we could soon drive to Hotel Pension Steiner where we rested for a couple hours. Around 1 pm we went on a walk to a nearby Pick&Pay to get some lunch. After that it was waiting time for the us gang to arive.

Dave picked Becca, Pat, Jake & Sari up at the airport. But they did not have their luggage with them it was still stuck in Johannesburg.

Tuesday august 28

After breakfast Dave, Pat, Becca and Jake went to pickup the second backie. Meanwhile Sari and I went for a walk to find an internet cafe. The garden at Pension Steiner turned out to be a little birder heaven. There were lots of activities with different kinds of birds like Weavers building nests.

When Dave and the rest of the gang returned it was time for some lunch. That was quite an experience. The food at Pension Stiener is not the best. Some had a pizza and it was really greasy. I got a bratwurst with potato salad and well I didn't really like it.

Then it was time to go shopping for the 3 weeks to come. We went to the local Pick&Pay store. The food available was nothing like any of us knew from home. Everything ofcourse had different brands and it was a bit of challenge to find what we neeeded. Especially since there were a lot of things I don't like. Such as tomatoes. Thanks to all for accomodating my special eating habits. Anyway the shoppings carts got filled and the total came to around 1.800 Namibia Dollars which is approx 300 US Dollars so that was not too bad considering we got more than we ever used so a lot was given away at the end of the trip.

After shopping it was time for a town walk. We walked through the town to a church. On the way everybody was shooting away. I didn't shoot many people but Sari, Pat, Becca & Jake did. Sari got really into the shooting and at one point layed down on the ground to get just the right angle for a shot.

We ended the evening at the restaurant The Gourmet with a game meal. Dave, Becca and I got Springbok. Jake went for the known and got a t-bone. Pat went all out and got a meal with several different game steaks (Kudu, Oryx, Ostrich & Crocodile).

Wednesday august 29

After breakfast at Steiner we left for Etosha. Approx 450 km via Otjiwarongo and Outjo. We arrived at the Anderson gate at 3 pm. After paying annoucing our arrival at the gate we went for our first game drive before going to the camp.

Our first game drive was down the first detour on our left. Finally the wildlife spotting and photographing commenced. Within minutes we saw zebras at a waterhole and a few sprinbok's. After the game drive we arrived in Okaukuejo rest camp and got settled in the rooms.

At sunset all must be back in the camp before the gates are closed. Yes from sunset to sunrise all visitor inside Etosha is locked away behind fences and gates for their own protection.

Safely inside the gates it was time to think about dinner. On our way from Windhoek we stopped in a small town to buy some fresh meat to grill on a Brai.

We ended the first day in Etosha at a lit waterhole. The lighting though was really bad. All photos came out with a yellow tone. Maybe they will work in black & white. Will find out later. At the waterhole we saw Rhino's, Elephants and Giraffs coming down to drink.

Thursday august 30

Wakeup call at 0530 am to get ready for 6 am game drive. From the camp we drove south-east and on the way we stopped at the borehole Gemsbokvlakte where we saw Hartebeast, Springbock, Zebras and lots of small birds. We continued to Olifantsbad but there were no animals around. At the next waterhole Aus we saw elephants, zebras, springbocks and gemsbocks. At this waterhole there were also several other vehicles parked. Some were small vehicles but other were huge overland trucks with 10-15 tourists. It was rare that there were this many vehicles at the waterholes. We continued north-west towards the Pan and then we headed back to the camp driving south-west.

We returned to the camp around 10 am to have breakfast and relax until the next game drive around 1500. On the second game drive we saw our first lions at Okondeka. On the way back Dave stopped at a tree were we saw a Bustard under the shade. But it turned out that that was not what Dave stopped for. He had spotted a lizard crawling around.

Friday august 31

On the morning game drive we first stopped at Nebrowni where we watched gemsbocks fight as well as springbocks fight. There were lots of elephants taking mud baths. Generally there were lots of activity at Nebrowni.

We returned to the camp for breakfast and then we needed to checkout from the camp at 10. Our next camp was Halali.

On our way to Halali we stopped again at Nebrowni which again proved to be a very active waterhole. We arrived in Halali camp around 1330 where we had some lunch and then we spent some time at the camps waterhole and watched elephants. There were a little baby elephant that practised chasing other animals away from the waterhole.

In the afternoon we went on a drive for Rhino's. Unfortunately we saw no Rhino's.

Saturday september 1

On the first game drive this morning we came to the waterhole Goas. Here we saw a couple lionesses eating a kill. There were also a lion male which probably had eaten already. At first he was resting in the sun. After a while he went to get some water and after that he started to walk away from the waterhole. Then Pat drove our truck into a better position where we though the lion would pass the road. And sure enough the lion walked slowly across the road very close to our truck.

Then we drove back to where we saw the lionesses eating. One of them then took a swim in the waterhole. Hmm I thought lions didn't like water. While we watched the lions for a while a jackal came by hoping for some leftovers. Then elephants came to the waterhold to drink.

When we got back to the camp we had some breakfast and then it was time to move to a new camp. On our way we did a short detour back to the watergole Goas to see if the lions still were there. And boy are we glad we did. Because when we got there we saw a Leopard in a tree.



Sunday september 2

More to follow....



Wednesday september 19

Back home in Copenhagen.