It turns out that more megapixels are not always better in a digital camera. If you are looking for a compact camera, six megapixels is ideal. More than that and you get more "noise" since the sensor isn’t really capable of collecting that much more info. Read all about it: Best picture quality with 6 […]
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If you follow my pictures on Flickr, you know that I’m a bit sporadic about uploading them. I just uploaded a bunch today with Flickr’s new Uploadr 3.0 and it worked great! Much, much better than the old one. Faster. Faster. You can edit titles before you upload. You can edit the tags and privacy
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A tech support guy gave me a quick and easy tip to make your computer faster: Remove all the icons on your desktop. Each time you start your computer – or any application – Windows reads all the icons on your desktop. If you have a lot of icons, that takes a long time. All
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About the ads and anything else you might find annoying on this website … As you’ve probably noticed, I use this website to play around with things. If you love or hate anything in particular, let me know! If anything interferes in your reading, definitely let me know!
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Ever wondered how much a picture could be changed by Photoshop? Well, enough to lose 100 pounds … Lose Weight In Photoshop (makeover) – video powered by Metacafe
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We are one step closer to living in a science fiction world. Coca-cola is supposedly coming out with a Sprite that chills itself when you open it. The ice is made out of the drink itself so that you don’t get a watered down drink.
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Bill Gates’ graduation speech at Harvard is well worth reading. He uses it as a call to arms. As his mother said, "From those to whom much is given, much is expected." We all need to work on the world’s inequalities. In his opinion the biggest obstacle to giving is complexity, "To turn caring into
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I found yet another cool web service. This one lets you create your own webpages: Squidoo. The idea is that you can create a "lens" or a webpage around any topic you want. They make it easy but allowing you to add lists of links, lists of Amazon products, text, or pictures. If the website
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Here’s a video of Caleb trying his bouncy swing for the first time! I finally started playing with the video function on my camera and Anita has helped me with editing them. So here’s my first video blog post.
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Here’s how to share a video on a blog: Capture a video. I use the video function on my camera and then upload it just like I do my pictures. One tip: make the video twice as long as you think it needs to be. Edit the video. Anita uses Windows Movie Maker that comes
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