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This week we had a guest speaker at my camera club speaking about photographing people. The first thing he said in his presentation was to have your camera ready at all times so that you don’t miss a shot. That was my tip last week. This week I am going to talk a little about …
Another good one from Download Squad: If you’re like me… then you probably are a total sucker for any Netscape or digg post that claims to give you information about some super-secret registry tweak that will make your XP box faster. I know I’ve tried every one in the book, and I found the more …
I saw this on Download Squad: This is probably a time-waster, but also pretty functional, so we’ll let it squeeze by without the “time waster” label. Hey, it’s Monday, right? The Official Seal Generator gives you an easy-to-use web interface with a bunch of built-in imagery to allow you to create a very official looking …
From Vnunet: The internet infrastructure in the US would still be able to function even if terrorists were able to knock out key physical network hubs, researchers have claimed. According to academics who have completed a simulation of a major attack on the US internet infrastructure, it would be “very difficult” to cause major disruptions …
From MSNBC: The European Commission welcomed on Monday U.S. government moves to make the company that manages Internet domain names independent by 2009, but said it would monitor the process carefully. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which controls addresses including “.com” and country domain names such as “.cn” for China, now …
From TechRepublic: Billionaire investor and dot-com veteran Mark Cuban had harsh words Thursday for YouTube, the online site that lets people share video clips, saying only a “moron” would purchase the wildly popular start-up. Cuban, co-founder of HDNet and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, also said YouTube would eventually be “sued into oblivion” because …
From TechRepublic: Your child wants to learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. You might consider consulting a librarian instead of Google, AOL or Microsoft search engines. Using the keywords “Martin Luther King,” the first result on Google and AOL–whose search is powered by Google–and the second result on Microsoft Windows Live search is a …
From BusinessWeek: Social networking sites offer hackers a rich trove of potential victims and many opportunities to exploit them, a new security report says Your next MySpace friend could be a virus. Social networking sites, blogs, and other popular Web destinations that rely on user-generated content are hackers’ newest targets, according to a Symantec report. …
I have been writing these tips for over a year now, and sometime they come to me very easy, others I have a hard time finding a topic. If there is something about digital photography you would like to know about, please leave a comment and I can work at writing on that topic. This …
There are lots of tools out there to help you recover files that you’ve deleted off of removable media (such as memory cards). Some are free and some are not. Today I accidentally came across something that may be helpful. I have a SanDisk card reader connected to my computer. It has 4 different card …