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For most people, it is natural when they bring the camera up to one eye, to close the other. In most situations where you may be taking a photograph, this works just fine. There are situations however where you may find it advantageous to keep both eyes open. When photographing a subject where you are …
A couple of weeks ago Download Squad posted about the DVD Rip utility, which makes it easy to backup DVDs: There are plenty of applications that help you rip DVDs to your computer. But for the most part, you need to click through a series of long and tedious menus. DVD Rip provides a one …
From Time magazine: Sometimes, a photo is simply too good to be true. Tiny details in an image, for instance, may be too similar to have occurred naturally, suggesting a cut-and-paste maneuver. Or the color patterns may be too “normal” — beyond the limitations of sensors on digital cameras. A growing number of researchers and …
From ComputerWorld: A federal judge in Seattle last week granted class-action status to a lawsuit that claimed Microsoft Corp. duped consumers when it promoted PCs as “Vista Capable” in the run up to the 2006 holidays. … The original lawsuit was filed almost a year ago by Washington state resident Diane Kelley, who charged Microsoft …
ZDNet has a couple of postings about how to delete a hard drive (see “How to REALLY erase a hard drive” and “How to REALLY erase a hard drive – Update“). There is lots of talk about how best to delete the data on a hard drive so it is unrecoverable. You may want to …
From the Toronto Star: It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It’s a problem familiar to O’Connors, D’Angelos, N’Dours …
If you are a fan of fonts, then you should check out MyFonts: MyFonts is your complete online source for finding, trying, and buying fonts. Purchased fonts are available for immediate download. With 58,938 fonts on one easy-to-use web site and the best search tools in the business, MyFonts is sure to help you find …
From Time magazine: With its massive, daily interplay of ideas and information, the Internet always seemed overdue for a pitched battle over free speech. That fight may have arrived. Its combatants are an unlikely duo: the Cayman Islands branch of a Swiss bank, and a shadowy whistle-blowing Web site dedicated to exposing what it believes …
I have mentioned in a past post but Graham pointed out that I haven’t really explained what Magic Hour is. (Click through to view full size) Magic hour is the first hour of sunlight after sunrise and the last hour of sunlight before sunset. During this time the quality of light is softer, more diffuse, …
I had originally intended to do a comparison of several high-speed USB flash drives. I contacted Apacer, SanDisk and Lexar, but I only heard back from SanDisk. This obviously makes it difficult to do a comparison. SanDisk sent me a Cruzer® Contour™ 4GB USB Flash Drive. As for a review, these sorts of things either …