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I read about this in the August issue of Microsoft Technet magazine:
Every IT pro I know has at least one or two multi-boot machines. Today, those systems usually include an instance of Windows Vista® or Windows Server® 2008, formerly code-named “Longhorn.” If you are running a multi-boot system with one of these operating systems, you might want to take a look at VistaBootPRO from PROnetworks.
From TechRepublic:
To simplify access to the tools in Windows XP’s Control Panel, Microsoft created the Category View, in which the Control Panel’s tools are organized into categories. If you’re an old-school Windows user, you can still switch back to the Classic View, in which all of the Control Panel’s tools are available. If you admire the simplicity of the Category View but prefer the Classic View, you may want to create your own custom Control Panel that combines the best of both views. Here’s how:
From USA Today:
One in five online Americans view video over the Internet on any given day, thanks to speedier Internet connections and a wider selection of clips, a study finds.
Young adults watch in greater numbers and often turn to humorous clips, while all other age groups use video predominantly for news, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
On a typical day, 19% of U.S. Internet adults watch some form of video. News ranked first and comedy second overall.
Today’s tip is a quick one regarding the relationship of colour models. You are most likely most familiar with the RGB colour model as this is used in most computer applications, your digital cameras, monitors, etc. Another very common colour model comes from the print industry, CMYK. If you are using Adobe Photoshop Elements, you only have access to the RGB colour model. If you are using the full version of Adobe Photoshop (any recent version) you will have access to many different colour models including RGB and CMYK.
They both get their names by using the first letter of each of the colours needed to represent all of the other supported colours in the model. RGB uses Red, Green and Blue to make up the other 16.7 million colours this model can represent, while CMYK uses Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to make it’s colour gamut. CMYK also need to add in a fourth colour – black – to fully achieve the depth needed for some of it’s colours though that is not important today.
If you are unfamiliar working with CMYK, it can be a bit confusing. However, there is a little bit of correlation between the two that becomes especially useful to know when you are performing colour corrections.
R – G – B
C – M – Y
When you are colour correcting an image, if you know what colour the colour cast of the image is, you can correct it by adding the corresponding colour from the other colour model. For example, if you image has a cyan cast to it, adding red will help eliminate it. On the other hand, if your image is on the green side, slowly adding magenta will compensate for that green.
People are very sensitive to variations in colour when they see it. Keeping colours correct can help ensure you photos look as they should.
Until next time, happy shooting.
The short description on the site says it all:
This site shows how to take apart electronic devices and gadgets.
If you like to take things apart and would like to see what others have done, then you should check out TakeItApart.net.
From InformationWeek:
Does your company monitor how much time you spend on YouTube and eBay? Perhaps it should.
Employees waste more than 81 minutes of work time in personal computer activity on average and 13% squander more than two hours a day on recreational computer activities, according to an old AOL/Salary.com survey.
And, those considered top employees can be the worst offenders.
I saw this in Windows Secrets…
Ever wonder what happens when you leave your computer on overnight? Does it just sit idle until the screen saver kicks in?
That’s what you want to believe. But now MASO Digital Studio has captured proof of the secret life of your desktop icons in a hilarious Flash clip. View the animation
From the New York Times:
On a muggy day in Kigali in 2003, some of the highest-ranking officials in the Rwandan government, including President Paul Kagame, flanked an American businessman, Greg Wyler, as he boldly described how he could help turn their small country into a hub of Internet activity.
Mr. Wyler, an executive based in Boston who made his fortune during the tech boom, said he would lace Rwanda with fiber optic cables, connecting schools, government institutions and homes with low-cost, high-speed Internet service. Until that point, Mr. Wyler, 37, had never set foot in Africa — he was invited by a Rwandan government official he had met at a wedding. Mr. Wyler never expected to start a business there; he simply wanted to try to help the war-torn country.
Even so, Mr. Wyler’s company, Terracom, was granted a contract to connect 300 schools to the Internet. Later, the company would buy 99 percent of the shares in Rwandatel, the country’s national telecommunications company, for $20 million.
But after nearly four years, most of the benefits hailed by him and his company have failed to materialize, Rwandan officials say. “The bottom line is that he promised many things and didn’t deliver,” said Albert Butare, the country’s telecommunications minister.
From CNet News:
There are plenty of unanswered questions about the FBI spyware that, as we reported earlier this week, can be delivered over the Internet and implanted in a suspect’s computer remotely.
Many of the questions hearken back to the old debate over the FBI’s Carnivore wiretapping system, which technical luminaries Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, David Farber, Peter Neumann, and Eugene Spafford raised in a December 2000 paper…
And of course there are issues more specific to the FBI’s use of the Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, or CIPAV, including whether the bureau believes it can install it on Americans’ computers willy-nilly in the wake of a wacky 9th U.S. Circuit Court decision this month.
From Reuters:
The perfect game of checkers ends as a draw, Canadian computer scientists reported on Thursday.
The team at the University of Alberta said they had “solved” checkers, the 5,000-year-old popular board game also known as draughts. Their computer program, Chinook, spent more than 18 years playing out the 500 billion possible positions, they report in the journal Science.
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