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Most digital cameras have settings that affect how the camera renders colour in the final image. One such setting is saturation. Saturation refers to the amount of grey in a colour. The more grey in the colours, the less saturated and the the less vivid the colour appears.More grey in a colour increases saturation and …
Webby provides a powerful desktop-style browsing experience on the Pocket Pc platform. Besides tabbed browsing Webby automatically provides the ability to scale web pages using the two top microbrowsers, Skweezer.net and Google Mobile. Internet Explorer came with my Dell Axim, and it works, but isn’t great. I’ve tried Minimo, the Mozilla-based browser, but it is …
Last week I discussed the merits of photo critiques. I hope that you have looked at a few of those sites, or others you may find on the Internet and submitted some of your shots for critique. At the same time, there is a lot you will learn by critiquing others as well. For the …
The latest issue of Michael Robertson’s Michael’s Minute announces the release of a new web-based word processor called ajaxWrite: ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox …
Last week I discussed some memory card maintenance to be sure your camera can record the photos that you shoot. This week I will discuss the merits of photography critiques and offer some websites where you can go to get them. Over the past few years, photography sites that allow people to submit photos for …
Quite a while ago I posted about Box.net Virtual Storage. I still haven’t tried the service, as I don’t really have a need for it, but it’s interesting. One of the guys who is at Box.net has been in contact with me regarding a test that they were running (I didn’t end up participating). He …
Last week I discussed how to hold your digital camera in order to achieve better photos. This week I will give you a small tip to ensure your camera can record your photos. There are certain steps that need to be repeated again and again in the process of digital photography. Shooting is only one …
The Canadian IT Pro blog recently posted a PDF file with a lot of handy keyboard shortcuts. It is a 5-page document that lists shortcuts for Windows, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Google, Adobe Reader, and a few specific advanced shortcuts. It’s quite good. You can download the PDF from their site.
The March 2006 issue of Windows IT Pro magazine has a tip from Mark Minasi about some utilities that Microsoft includes in their Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit: The two resource kit tools—CDBurn and DVDBurn—exploit some of Windows 2003’s and XP’s under-the-hood disc-burning capabilities that the Roxio software doesn’t exploit. Given an ISO file, CDBurn …
Reader Alec Thompson sent me this. It was a tip he received from Dot Martin: Great keyboard trick! [If you have a mouse with a wheel] Try this – It really works! I just found out about this. Thought I’d pass this on. It’s very useful when trying to read small e-mail print (especially in …