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I came across this link yesterday pointing to a free, open source software utility used for recovering photos from digital media. There is no install needed, just run the software from a directory. It is a DOS based program but still seems very easy to use. Photorec does not write anything to your digital media …
Quite some time ago Chris reviewed Stardock’s Object Desktop. It was an impressive product. The latest version has been released: Object Desktop 2007 has just been released and it has a ton of great new features such as: * WindowBlinds 5 * DesktopX 3.2 * WindowFX 3 * RightClick 1.2 * Keyboard LaunchPad 1.5 And …
Last week I continued my discussion of black and white digital photography and the topics of using grayscale and saturation to convert you colour photographs to black and white. This week I discuss using the channel mixer in order to create pleasing and dynamic monochrome photographs. Channel mixer is available in the full version of …
I don’t usually pass along “good deals”. There are lots of other sites that do that. But this one is really quite exceptional. Crucial Technology has a promotion (it ends September 1) where you can get a 512MB Compact Flash card for only $1.99 after rebate. The card is $26.99 with a $25 mail-in rebate. …
A little over a month ago I posted about how to get an invitation to Google Writely. It turns out now you don’t need to do that. The official Google Writely Blog posted about this yesterday: This week, we have finished inviting everyone who’s been patiently on the waiting list, and have reopened registration to …
Goggles is a Google Maps flight simulater you play in your browser. There are a bunch of predefined locations or you can use your own location (through a bit of work). Here is a link to fly over Niagara Falls. Hint: Head east until you reach the river then turn south. http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html?loc=tqsqttsrsssttqssq
Last week I began my discussion of black and white digital photography. This week I will further that discussion by talking about the first two methods of converting your digital photographs to black and white, or more specifically, monochrome. For the sake of simplicity, I will use black and white in my text, but even …
From Time Magazine: How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year’s choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, …
I may have mentioned in the past that I began my journey into photography by working with black and white images and film, from start to finish, including loading my own film cassettes, developing and printing my own photos. Still to this day, black and white has a special spot for me. With digital photography, …
Regular reader Pat sent along some information on ShortCourses.com. They have several online books Welcome to ShortCourses.com, Famous for its books on digital cameras and digital photography. THE digital photography resource for over 6,000,000 visitors a year I quickly glanced over a couple of the “courses”. As of the time of this writing, there seems …