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Monday, 10 May 2010 13:13 |
 Google can be a pretty scary thing if you're trying to keep your identity at least moderately safe. It's easy enough to type in a phone number, address, or name, and come up with information you may not expect to find - at least out in the open. I suggest you do this periodically, as a check on your own identity. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, and in the scheme of things, not something that's likely to draw the attention of marketers and folks wanting to sell things to you. It's really Facebook that's digging into your personal life.
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Friday, 07 May 2010 00:00 |
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 I've been working with a nice little device from Digital FOCI called the Picture Porter 35. Its main use is as a portable backup device for digital photographers, but it does a lot more than that. It has a 3.5" LCD where you can view your photos either individually or as a slide show. But that same LCD lets you watch movies, and the headphone jack lets you listen to the movies or MP3 music files.
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 00:00 |
 Today I created my first HDR from within Photoshop. This was done with Photoshop CS5's newly updated HDR function. I've never used PS's HDR capability before, even though it's been part of PS for at least a couple years. That's because, according to pretty much any authority, creating an HDR in Photoshop just wasn't worth the effort. This time, however, I think they have a decent product. Take a look at my first attempt.
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Friday, 30 April 2010 13:13 |
 Earlier this week I downloaded the evaluation copy of Adobe's CS5. The whole thing takes up 2 DVDs, so that meant that the download was about 15GB. Even with my relatively speedy cable connection, the download took most of the day. So, it wasn't till the next morning that I found out I wasn't able to install from the ISO files. The install procedure simply quit in the middle of the process and displayed an 'error 7' along with more than 150 specific errors. Interestingly, the error messages indicated that the OS didn't meet the requirements of the installation.
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 00:00 |
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 This week I've been in Santa Clara, CA at the SaaSCon and CSO Perspective conferences. Computerworld put on the SaaSCon event, which was my primary focus, and while there, my main objective was to record interviews with some of the presenters and vendors.
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 00:00 |
I'm a fan of PDF. For that matter, I'm a fan of most things Adobe, but PDF is one of those applications that acts as an equalizer between applications. It has an amazing array of options, and the current version (v9) can do amazing things that one would never expect from an application that most people see as a way to replace paper. But, it's a little pricey for lots of folks.
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Saturday, 01 May 2010 09:37 |
Freeing your business from managing an IT infrastructure can free you to focus on servicing customers, but you can't just walk away from your servers and applications. Here's how to get started ... smart.
http://bmighty.informationweek.com/services/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224700133
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 00:00 |
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 Today Adobe put out a teaser about a new feature that will be included in both Camera Raw and Lightroom 3, when they become available. The new features aren't really 'new' because they already existed in some manner, in Photoshop. Regardless, they are great tools that move Lightroom yet another step toward becoming the only application you need to do serious photographic work.
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Friday, 02 April 2010 00:00 |
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 I've been watching the market for HDR photo applications (that's High Dynamic Range) for the last couple years. Photoshop has a tool for creating HDR images, but from all accounts, it's not nearly as effective as any number of separate applications. I've tried a few with varied success, but today's experiment has me just a little more enthusiastic.
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Monday, 29 March 2010 11:13 |
 I stopped using MS Outlook a few months ago in favor of Google Apps and Gmail. Probably the biggest single thing I prefer about Gmail is the fact that I don't need to synchronize my data between multiple computers. There are some other features as well, but this is by far the best. But one thing I used with Outlook was a little add-on called Xobni, that displayed information about my contacts along the right side of the message, both for incoming and outgoing mail. It was amazing how much more personal my email seemed when I actually saw a picture of the person, and a little bit of information about what they did and where they were.
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