↓ Skip to Main ContentHomePhotographyArchitectureHow-To’sHow to photograph fireworksLandscapesPortraitsWoodOpen Based Router TableFixing Dropbox Camera UploadPosted on September 4, 2013 by Admin—No Comments ↓I’ve had an iPhone for nearly a year now, and it’s been a wonderful device. I’ve been very happy with it. Some months back, I installed Dropbox so that I could keep some files in sync between my laptop and an office computer. This also worked great. Then it got even better when I found I could sync the photos on my iPhone to Dropbox. An auto-magic backup of my photos and videos!Then it broke. I’m not sure exactly why, but the auto-play settings on one of my computers got all messed up. I’m pretty sure I know what program did it (it’s a media management program that has a simian inspired name). I tried many things to just get the auto-play camera upload to work again. I wound up uninstalling the media management program, thinking that uninstalling would set things back to normal. It didn’t.So I just lived with it. But I knew that it should work. All the auto-play settings in Windows looked like they were supposed to. And Dropbox was at the latest version.I looked into it again today, and found a post on a forum that suggested these steps:Have the iPhone connected to the computerGo into Device Manager/Portable Devices/iPhoneDelete the phone (right click)Disconnect then reconnect the iPhone.Watch Windows install the device drivers for the iPhoneIt should now AutoPlay normally after reinstalling the device driver.Right-click to delete or uninstall the iPhone. Unplug and plug the iPhone back in to re-install the drivers.Success!I still need to try this on my laptop where I have iTunes and sync my iPhone.If for whatever reason you don’t have a Dropbox account and would like one, please click here and get one set up.Share this:FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailPrintMoreGoogleRedditDiggLinkedInStumbleUponTumblrPocketPosted in How To, Tech FixTagged with: camera, camera upload, device, device manager, dropbox, fix, iphone, uninstall, upload, win7, windows, windows 7Pen casting experimentPosted on August 26, 2013 by Admin—No Comments ↓So I thought I’d try a little bit of casting and see how it goes. I’d never done any casting of any kind before, so I’m glad for a good pen turning forum and that there are some very informative videos on YouTube.My wife and I went to Hobby Lobby a couple of weeks ago to get some basic casting supplies. She had a 40% off coupon, which we used on the resin. Even though they didn’t have the largest selection of pigments, I got some lavender, pearl and a small bit of fine silver glitter (Note to self: fine glitter gets everywhere even when you are careful).For the molds, I used some old schedule 40 PVC pipe. I didn’t have any corks, but I did have some duct tape which made a dandy cover for one end of the PVC. The resin