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Last week I discussed using s-curves and diagonals in your photos for a more attractive image. This week I will start to discuss night photography, specifically, some of the equipment that will be helpful when shooting at night. Night photography poses some challenges for the photographer. Unlike during the daylight when light levels are high, …
A free, open source, screen magnifier, for both Windows and Linux. This is neat software. If you want to zoom in on something on your screen, you can use it. You can customize how magnified it is, how big the magnification area is, and more. Check it out…
From a Paragon press release: Being our valued customer you are the first to know about new Disk Wiper 7.0 Professional release. When you’re retiring or upgrading computers/servers it’s critical to protect sensitive company information they contain. But simply erasing or reformatting your used disks isn’t enough to prevent financial records, passwords, employee data, and …
The following table contains a select group of Programs or Registry files which solve Windows System problems or functional deficits, or significantly help you to get better use of your computer. ( Unless otherwise noted, the files here are for ALL Windows™ OSs. They should function normally on Win NT/2000/XP, but we would be interested …
EBCD is a bootable CD, intended for system recovery in the case of software or hardware faults. It is able to create backup copies of normally working system and restore system to saved state. It contains the best system software ever created, properly compiled and configured for the maximum efficient use. I haven’t tried it, …
It’s about time!
In the past, I discussed compositional tips such as the rule of thirds, moving in and moving out from your subject. This week I will discuss S-curves and diagonals and how they can improve your photography. Photographs are static images. To add life to them, we need to make use of compositional elements. Of the …
I haven’t tried the software, but it sounds interesting: SetNameToTime is a program designed to batch rename digital camera pictures using free text, counters and information extracted from the file’s exif header. The new file names is based on the new name format settings controlled by the user. The new name format is specified using …
Like most people, I get a fair number of junk emails pretending to be from a bank, insurance company, credit card company, or PayPal. This morning I thought I’d check out one of the sites and see what happens. I clicked on a nice looking “PayPal” email (that was sent to an email that wasn’t …
From a press release (view the PDF) I received: Paragon Software Group, the European specialist for innovative data security and data management technology, launches Drive Copy 8.0– a software for real-time hard disk copy, personal/ corporate data and applications migration, disk-to-disk backup and basic hard disk partitioning operations. Paragon Drive Copy was created as a …