My Dad and I watched the fights on TV every Friday night. Our TV was a Magnavox, 10 inch screen with one of those old magnifying screens on a stand. Unless you were seated directly behind, the image was always distorted. Nevertheless, every Friday night we were glued to the TV. The link below is for the Heavyweight Championship in Philadelphia in 1952. My Dad suddenly passed away in Jan. 53', at age 41. So, this is a fond memory for me.

If you are old enough, it may be a fond memory for you too.

Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott - 1952
https://youtu.be/ZaKPg7gXtW4

Enjoy,
Mark

I've mentioned this several times before, and I'm mentioning it again. I bet I have a hundred little power transformers for various devices. 5v, 9v, 12v 15v, positive and negative ground, and all with slightly different connectors. Really? Is that much variation necessary? I'm tempted bu buy one of those universal power supplies. You can set the voltage and select the correct connector, but they seem too iffy.

Maybe they could start by all using the same size connector. In a pinch, I've used a 12v in a 9v item - without problems. I now use a label maker to identify each power supply, and that makes it a lot easier to find the right one.

Of course, batteries for cameras and other electronics will never be interchangeable. I have a Canon SD800 and a Sony WX9. Their batteries are so similar that I had to write on them with a Sharpie. Being interchangeable would have made things so much simpler.

Companies always try to have proprietary accessories - until they realize they are shooting themselves in the foot. Sony tried to have its own hot shoe, so you would have to buy a Sony flash. I think they stopped doing that, but I still can't use generic mics on my Sony camcorders.

Remember when all cars used the same headlights? How nice! I remember the sealed beam headlights costing under $10. You know those LED headlights on Subarus that blind you day and night? I costs between $600 and $800 for a replacement. Naturally, you have to add tax and installation to that. My Fits use $10 bulbs - easy to install.

Here's an update on Gabby cat, presented in a quick review of details of a 20MP cropped sensor pocket camera. I still think a dedicated camera does better than a phone, here captured in RAW and processed in LR6.

Gabby cat by Paul Sager, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53672522118_34b6184f83_h.jpg

The Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II is a compact camera with a 1-inch CMOS sensor, roughly a 2.7x crop factor, for this model / lens giving a 28–84mm equivalent focal length. The camera features a pop-up flash with flash exposure compensation and in-body image stabilization (IBIS).

The 1:1 pixel level crop below shows the fine details the camera will capture, if opened to the embedded 1947x1217 crop.

Gabby close-up
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I received my Samsung Galaxy Fit 3 smart watch today. Naturally, it requires an app to get it working. I was surprised that both of my phones were able to install the app, but I was disappointed that neither phone can find the watch. I guess this will be another Amazon return. This watch cost only $62, but I'm not going to take a chance on their $200 or $300 watch.

Another oddity. Of course, it comes with a neat little magnetic charging cable that snaps onto the watch. The other end has a USB C plug. I have several dozen USB chargers, but no one of them has a USB C port. Fortunately, I can charge the watch using my Moto e6, which uses a USB port for charging.

Reading online, I'm not the only one having trouble connecting to the watch. Even if it does connect, it loses contact occasionally, so there goes the "smart" feature. Back it goes!

Just a guess. Try putting the files in Win Explorer in a folder/folders, then copy them to the thumb drive. See if they will play on the PC. Then, try it in the car. I've been playing mp3 files in my cars since 2009. I never had to format the flash drive - right out of the box and plays perfectly. The only issue I had was with a 64 GB flash drive. I researched and found the largest size compatible was 32 GB. Sorry you are having difficulty. If I can help, please let me know.
Mark

I formatted the Thumb Drive to fat32 and copied and pasted the music files I wanted from Windows Media from my Playlists to the thumbdrive. I then tested it on my computer to see if the songs were there, and they played just fine. Then I put the thumbdrive into the usb port in the car and USB came up on the media screen. I touched that and then it came up with another screen that listed Artists, Albums, Songs, Genre, etc. However, it gave me the message that no songs were on the drive. The USB drive in my car is white which I found out is 1.0 and the Thumbdrive is black which is 2.0. I don't know if that is the problem or not? Most of the music on Windows Media was download through 4K Youtube to mp3 program and it automatically sends the music to Windows Media. I've made CDs with these same songs that I'm trying to play through the usb and they've worked well on the CDs. I don't understand where I'm messing up here?

Although I'm pretty capable on a computer, the dash board on my 2018 RAV4 LE pretty much defeats me. They tried to get me to upgrade from their basic model, but why pay for MORE stuff that you don't understand was my reasoning. Anyway, it does have a CD drive that I've made many CDs for and that's great, however, I noticed that way under the radio, close to the console, there is a USB port and I was wondering if I put music on a thumb drive and plugged it into the USB port would the radio recognize it and play the music? Thanks...