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I am just finishing up my review of Adobe Lightroom. So far I am very impressed with Adobe’s new offering with only a few issues. This week’s tip is for Lightroom users. I have talked in the past about how important proper white balance is in your photographs. If your camera has the ability to …
Late last year I linked a list of PC World where they had 101 Fabulous Freebies. The list has been updated: Once upon a time you actually had to pay for great software and services — hard to believe, but true. We revved up our cable modem and searched for the most intriguing free offerings …
The Toolbox section of the April 2007 TechNet Magazine highlights a tool called Allway Sync. No matter what kind of IT job you have, chances are you spend a lot of time moving files and directories from one place to another—whether from your desktop to a USB key or from server to server over the …
Today’s photography tip is a short one. As Winter is turning to Spring (at least in the Northern Hemisphere where I am) there are many changes occurring around. The days are getting longer, birds are migrating, flowers are begging to sprout. In the coming weeks, the first early wildflowers will begin to arrive, some already …
From ComputerWorld: The punchline to an old cartoon is “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” but these days, that’s no longer true. It’s easier than ever for the government, Web sites and private businesses to track exactly what you do online, know where you’ve visited, and build up comprehensive profiles about your likes, …
This is from a press release I received from 3CX: 3CX a developer of a software-based IP PBX for Windows, today announced that it will give away 100,000 free phone systems. Companies are encouraged to take advantage of this offer to experience first handedly the benefits of an IP PBX when compared with traditional proprietary …
From ComputerWorld: In a world where there’s too much to do — and too little time to do it in — we’re always looking for shortcuts. So when we stumbled upon a blog entry by Kurt Shintaku over on Windows Live Spaces that promised to let us install Vista from a flash drive instead of …
I am a control freak. When I shoot, I like to have as much control over my photo as possible. I use primarily aperture priority mode to control my depth of field though will switch over to shutter speed priority when I am shooting an image where I need to stop action or where there …
Most digital cameras with advanced manual override controls often have multiple focus modes, most often single focus or continuous focus. Today I will explain the difference between both and situations when you may want to use them. Single focus mode will lock focus on your subject and hold that focus point for as long as …
Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3.com, is now involved in all sorts of other online pursuits. One of them is with VOIP. He has grouped several services under the Gizmo Project name, and the latest one is GizmoSMS. [GizmoSMS is] a web site that lets you send SMS messages to any mobile phone directly from …