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Ben in Delta Junction, Alaska listening on 970 AM KFBX calling in via the app asked: “I want to get a new digital camera with a high powered zoom and wondering which you think is the best.”
You have many, many options, and they mainly depend on your budget.
If you’re interested in top quality, you can get a nice SLR, a multi-thousand dollar lens and you’ll be very happy with the quality of the pictures you’ll get, and unburdened by an excess of money, but assuming you want something a little more on the affordable size, you can also look at point and shoot large zoom cameras.
The Nikon Coolpix S9500 sports a nice 22x optical zoom and 4x digital zoom, and the Nikon name pretty much ensures that you’re getting quality optics for the $300 you’ll be paying for it.
The Canon Powershot SX510 should match the quality of the lens, but with a 30x optical zoom, and a 4x digital zoom for about $50 less.
If that’s not enough for you, for $400 you can buy a Sony DSC-HX300 with a 50x optical and 100x digital zoom, that should be plenty for most people’s needs.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
“This Week in Tech History” Weekly Feature with Chris Graveline
Richard in Columbia, Missouri listening on KFRU asked: “I would like to know if I can add speakers to my computer. I want to listen to music in a room that’s remote and be able to listen to music in the room where the computer is.”
Your best bet may be WiFi speakers.
You wouldn’t need any kind of wiring and they’d connect to your computer via your WiFi network, then you could use software like AirFoil, to select the speakers that you want to use.
WiFi speakers are not a new thing, and you can find them by Bose, Pure, Pioneer, and many, many more companies for prices ranging better a few hundred to a few thousand, depending on how serious you are about the sound quality you need.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
Robert in Anchorage, Alaska told us: “Hi, Dave! I have a drive on my Asus computer which is labelled as drive “D”. ( Data) but it’s not doing anything. I have a Compaq laptop which has a similar drive but its used as “Recovery”. The Asus Data drive has a folder in it name recovery, but it’s empty. I would love to use this space, (410 GIGS!) because my external WD drive is constantly full. Can you tell me how I can access this drive, and either use it for recovery, or perhaps use it to store my videos, music and other “space intensive” files?? I love you show, and I recommend it to all of my classmates here at the University of Alaska, Anchorage as an important way to learn and keep up to date on “today’s” technology..Keep up the good work, and happy Holidays!”
If all you want to do is use the space, and it’s really empty, you can start saving files to it right now, just select the Data drive whenever you want to save anything and save it there. If it’s not letting you do that, it may not really be empty, though 410GB seems a little much for a recovery partition.
Have you tried selecting the recovery option to see if it does anything? if it won’t boot in recovery mode, then there’s no harm in using that space.
If what you want it so extend your drive so that that space becomes a part of it, you can try using Window’s Disk Management tool. Depending on how the drive was partitioned it may just let you delete the Data partition and annex the space to your main one, or it may force you to wipe the entire drive to do it.
Since you’re obviously used to working with an external drive though, why not just copy whatever files you want to store in the Data partition there each time? You can probably do that now.
Remember, though, anyone or anything can make a folder. Just because it’s called “recovery” doesn’t mean it has anything at all to do with system recovery.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
Guest Segment:
Mario Riveron,
Retail Sales Representative – Verizon
Anthony in Tupelo, Mississippi listening on SuperTalk 102.9 sent us the following comment: “I think the Amazon drone delivery system will become a game of skeet shooting with prizes. Don’t think it’s a great idea, although one day it may be a reality.”
Thank you, Anthony.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
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