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I’ve been having problems with Newsgator lately. Once I’ve had it running for a few hours, it seems to stop retrieving posts. There are some posts that I can’t subscribe to as well, even though I know others who can and they use Newsgator. So I decided to look for an alternative. The one and …
This week’s tip is a little misleading as I am not talking about shooting what is around you, but shooting your subject in their environment. A portrait should be more than simply a photo of a person, it should tell a story about them. While a studio shot may look very nice, they are quite …
In the latest issue of Scot’s Newsletter, Scot Finnie explains his quest for the perfect antivirus solution. He has done major research into several different products, and has some preliminary observations. He also links to AV Comparatives, a site that test antivirus software: On this site you will find independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software. All …
By now many of you have heard that Google has a new web-based spreadsheet product called Google Spreadsheets. I heard about it yesterday, and immediately went to sign-up. It is a closed beta, so I filled in my email address to ask for an invitation, and a few hours later I had one: Thanks for …
A lot of the photography that I do is nature related. Each weekend, I am up before the crack of dawn so that I can get to my destination before the sun comes up, but nature is not all that I shoot. I also shoot assignments, weddings, engagements, and the different people I shoot with …
Last week I began my discussion about digital image sensor size, this week I will finish that discussion by talking about how image sensor size affects the quality of images. As you remember from last week, the size of the image sensor compared to a 35mm or full frame sensor when using the same lens …
About 9 months ago I wrote a posting about Microsoft Online Crash Analysis. It linked to various resources that explain how the Microsoft Error Reporting works, and whether or not you should send off the error messages to Microsoft. My recommendation at the time was: So if you usually click “Don’t Sendâ€, I’d suggest you …
As you all know, Chris is the vice-president of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. They club recently held their awards banquet, and Chris came away with the McGarry Photo Award for slide of the year. A local newspaper covered the evening, and quote Chris: “While the debate about the artistic integrity of photographs taken using …
I read about this on RedFlagDeals.com: For a limited time, PDFill.com has PDF Tools available for FREE download. This program will let you merge, split, reorder, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop, reformat, add header, footer, watermark, convert images to PDF, PDF to images, and more! The program sounds interesting. The only catch is that the tools …
This is from the latest TechRepublic Windows XP Tips newsletter: Need a change of scenery? No need to pay Microsoft when you want a new desktop theme–now you can escape to virtual versions of Egypt, Québec and New Zealand for free. Windows XP columnist Greg Shultz leads the tour. I’m not really into themes, but …