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As winter moves forward and the days continue to grow colder, outdoor photography is more and more likely to include snow. This will pose a problem for most cameras, either digital or film based. A blanket of snow will play havoc with the metering system in your camera. Your camera will measure the brightness values …
I recently had the opportunity to review Microsoft Digital Image Suite Plus. This is Microsoft’s digital image editing product, digital image library and Pinnacle System’s Studio 10. The image editor provides advanced image editing capabilites including curves support, channel controls for high quality black and white images and support for Canon and Nikon RAW images. …
Last week I talked about framing for printing. I had expected to have a review of Microsoft Digital Imaging Suite Plus to discuss today, but had problems with hardware for the video portion of the review so that will have to wait until next week. The software consists of both a still image editor and …
It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst for news, and perhaps even our desires. Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the significant events, and names …
I received the latest issue of the Windows Secrets newsletter. I printed it out and read through it, and there was one link I wanted to follow. I use Outlook 2003, and when I clicked on the link, I had my first encounter with Microsoft’s new anti-phishing mechanism. A message popped up telling me the …
Microsoft used to let you download a complete version of IE for you to save to your computer. They don’t do that anymore. Now you download an IESETUP file that is only 300kb or so. It then downloads all the files that are needed for installation. There are temp files left on the hard drive, …
I received this email early this morning: Dear WinZip Customer, Because you already use WinZip, we thought that you’d like to know about the additional benefits of our latest release — WinZip 10.0. What’s more, you can upgrade now and SAVE 50% off the list price: http://www.winzip.com/offer.cgi?kad=sFo9FEhnwuzr-7Z7GXnD& dmm=516354&kmlw=1&es=232 New in WinZip 10.0: > View All …
I talked about white balance and how you can use it to achieve proper colours in your images, as well as how you can take advantage of it to produce better photographs. This week I will discuss changing the aspect ratio of your final image. Aspect ratio refers to relationship between length of the two …
Quite a while ago Chris reviewed Object Desktop by StarDock. I received this email yesterday regarding the latest release of WindowBlinds, a part of the Object Desktop package: WindowBlinds 5 has been released and it has a ton of new features including: 1) Per-Pixel alpha blended support for title bars, borders, and controls. This means …
Shortly after BlogJet 1.6 was released, a minor update has been released providing support for MSN Spaces. Here is the announcement: Wow! I’m happy to announce a very minor update with a major service support – BlogJet 1.6.1 (still Lime, remember? ) I think I’m the first one (two hours after the public announcement)… to release blog …