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The application of light in photography can make or break a photo. One of the things photographers do to make an outstanding photo is manipulate light to create depth, dimension and effect in their photos. They use multiple lights and light modifiers to do that. In this photo, I have used two camera flashes, but …
Last week I received a press release from my contact at Paragon Software (the makers of Hard Disk Manager). They have released a new product, NTFS for Mac OS X: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS breaks the border between Windows and Mac OS, solving an important communication problem in their file systems From now on …
I got a press release the other day about Automatic Photo Sorter 1.0, software from Styopkin Software that scans for photos and uses the EXIF information to store the pictures in directories based on the date they were taken. Automatic Photo Sorter 1.0 will benefit most any digital photo enthusiast, who takes lots of photos …
This is a neat little tool I found recently that allows you to capture a screenshot (of a region, the desktop, or a window) and then use OCR (optical character recognition) to “extract” the text. JOCR enables you to capture the image on the screen and convert the captured image to text. It is useful …
I haven’t tried this myself, but I recently heard about System Information for Windows. It is software that will take an inventory of the hardware and software on your computer, along with a lot of other useful information. The site describes it this way: SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers …
I have talked in the past about non-destructive editing in Photoshop Elements 5 any of the full Photoshop versions including CS2 and CS3. This week I will introduce a way to make non-destructive edits to pixel layer detail. Several of the tools in Photoshop Elements 5 including the magic wand, spot healing, clone stamp, paint …
If all browsers applied web standards correctly, then every web page would look the same in each browser. Unfortunately, this is not the way it is. Each browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc) supports various standards and displays web pages slightly differently. To test your web pages, you could install a copy of every browser and …
If you wear glasses, you may find that using the viewfinder on you digital camera is difficult. They lenses in the view finder are made to focus at a certain point, and often glasses may interfere with this. One thing you can try is to adjust the diopter on the eyepiece to match the prescription …
One of the big things in the IT industry these days is virtualization. In general terms, this is using an existing computer to run multiple operating systems at the same time. On my computer I can install special software, and then run Windows, Linux, and sometimes even MacOS in a “window”. This “window” let’s you …
Regular reader Pat sent me a newsletter that linked to a Mashable posting on RSS (news feeds) resources: Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place…ok, we’re kidding, but we’ve aimed to create a near comprehensive list of all the RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks and …