The Google Operating System blog had a posting recently about a freeware disk defragmenting utility I’d never heard of before:
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista with a simple interface, that runs much faster than the built-in defragmenter. You can’t defragment more than one partion at a time or set advanced options, but that also means it’s easy to use. The program doesn’t use too many resources, so you can continue your work.
I haven’t used it yet, but I wanted to pass the information along. To learn more, visit the Auslogics web site.
Chris pointed out this Boing Boing posting..
If you search Google for the Confidential “do not distribute” you will find all sorts of things that maybe shouldn’t be on the Internet.
It has been a long road, but I hope everyone enjoyed my 4 part series on digital black and white photography. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in my tips though, be sure you take your photographs in colour! Shooting in black and white mode on your camera will eliminate all of the colour information you can use to create dynamic black and white photos.
Black and White Digital Photography - Part 1
Black and White Digital Photography - Part 2
Black and White Digital Photography - Part 3
Black and White Digital Photography - Part 4
This week’s tip is a simple one featuring a few avenues with which you can improve your photography. With school starting and fall approaching, there are many continuing education courses in photography available at local high schools and colleges. The courses offered often have a wide range of skills that they build upon, and there are courses for photographers of all abilities. I have taken a few courses over the years at my local community college and found them rewarding. I have also mentioned camera and photography clubs in the past as a way to meet with other people who share a common interest as well as provide a forum for you to improve upon your own photography. Many clubs will be starting in the coming weeks so if that is something that interests you, look up your local club and attend a meeting.There are always ways to improve you photography. From snapshooters to professionals, everyone can benefit from interacting with other photographers.
Until next week, happy shooting.
The digital photography tip of the week is written by the PCIN Assistant Editor, Chris Empey. Chris is a long time photographer and is currently the President of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. You can see more of his photography at his Photo of the Day website. If you have a tip to send Chris, or a question about digital photography he can address in the newsletter, send it to chris@pcin.net.
From Mediacaster Magazine:
Free Wi-Fi access is now available in the central Toronto downtown core, following the launch of One Zone, the wireless network from Toronto Hydro Telecom.
Available in a six-square kilometre area, bounded by Front St to the south, Bloor St to the north, stretching east/west from around Bathurst St to Parliament St, the network is free of charge during a six month introductory period.
“Hundreds and hundreds of megabits are now flowing around Toronto,” enthused David Dobbin, Toronto Hydro Telecom president. “Our new WiFi network, combined with our 450-kilometre fibre network, is a powerful combination of leading edge technology.
From SearchEngineWatch.com:
News and history junkies take heart: Google’s new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine.
“The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded,” said Anurag Acharya, Google distinguished engineer, who played a major role in shepherding the new product.
Google has partnered with news organizations including Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post, and aggregators including Factiva, LexisNexis, Thomson Gale and HighBeam Research, to index the full-text of content going back 200 years.
I’ve looked at the site a bit and it looks neat. I tried to think of something that would have a history, so I searched for “queen of england” (without the quotes). It brought up results from the New York Times that went back to 1854. Unfortunately, to actually view the article, you had to have a “subscription” to the Newspaper Archive. Overall the news archive search seems like a good idea, but I think they’ll have a hard time actually getting people to pay.
Regular reader Pat sent me a great document of Microsoft Word shortcuts and tips. As I looked into it, I found it was originally referenced on the InformationWeek site in an article called Office Letter: A Cheat Sheet for Word:
Office Letter reader Lyn Hancock wrote to share her list of shortcuts for Word.
This is an aid that I began several years ago and several Word versions back. I add to it when I discover something new and try to update it when new Word versions are released, so it is very much a work in progress. Note: I don’t guarantee that the information is absolutely correct and it is certainly not complete.
You can download this lengthy set of shortcuts and keyboard templates from http://www.officeletter.com/samples/v04/n52wordshortcuts.doc.
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