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I heard about this on Download Squad. I haven’t tried it myself, but it sounds interesting. While it can’t bring back the quality to a heavily compressed JPEG image, JPEG Enhancer can smooth out the artifacts and make a much nicer-looking image as a result. It’s so easy to use, it’s ridiculous; simply open a …
From TechRepublic’s IT News Digest: U.S. researchers printed, yes, printed a battery and they’re looking to scale up the process to run devices from pacemakers to pickup trucks with batteries printed on a printing press. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s team published a description in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of how they’ve printed …
From Reuters: Content online is king. Internet users spend nearly half their time online viewing news or entertainment content, surpassing activities such as sending e-mails, shopping or searching for information, according to a study released by the Online Publishers Association on Monday. The four-year study, conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings, tracked a 37 percent increase in amount …
From the New York Times: In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation’s health care. By combining better Internet search tools, the vast resources of …
This weeks tip is a very simple one. Watch your elevations. Simply, if your subject sits at a higher elevation than the camera, place the subject in the top half of the frame. If the subject sits below the camera, place it in the lower half of the frame. Following this simple guideline can help …
I found this on Download Squad… Freelance web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a listing of his choice of the best 25 free fonts available online, and it’s very hard to argue with his choices. He plainly states that his bias is towards fonts that are useful in a business setting, rather than those …
At the Movies was the name of the show that Siskel & Ebert did where they reviewed movies. The name has changed over the years, and the critics have also changed, but the show has continued on. This week they opened up their archive on the web and they have archived reviews of over 5,000 …
From PC World: With easy online access to up-to-date medical information and reference materials, more adults in the U.S. are using the Internet to find out about their health, then talking to their personal doctors about what they find. In fact, according to a new telephone poll by Harris Interactive Inc., about 160 million of …
From NewsFactor: When Best Buy Co. Inc. bought the Geek Squad five years ago, the two companies pledged to “protect the world from the assault of computerized technology Relevant Products/Services.” Geek Squad “agents” even wore badges and drove vehicles resembling police cars. But as this squadron of techno-nerds has mushroomed into the largest collection of …
From the BBC: There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, research has shown. A survey by consumer group Which? found that broadband packages promising speeds of up to 8Mbps (megabits per second) actually achieved far less. Tests of 300 customers’ net connections revealed that the average …