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A great tutorial on monitor calibration
Monitor calibration and gamma. I printed my first photos via the Minolta Dimage 5400 through Photoshop and then Canon i9900. Thought I did job on color calibration, but the printout was way more washed out than the screen. Sigh. The above is a good site that explains how to do color calibration. I thought I…
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Trip Advisor
TripAdvisor. An interesting site. Was acquired by Expedia.com. What they did a great job getting content and then getting readers. It shows what you can do when you have a focused audience.
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Red River Paper and ICCs
Inkjet Paper by Red River Paper. I’ve noticed folks on Nikonians and other enthusiast sites like to use Red River for their paper. They are a specialist site and even include ICC files so that when you print to their paper, you can use the exactly correct color matching. They have a nice “tutorial”:http://redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/tips/aug04.htm that…
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Gamma and Other information
Gamma. This whole monitor calibration thing is very confusing. You essentially have to get the calibration right on your scanner, your monitor and your printer so that colors don’t shift and so you don’t lose anything. Adobe Photoshop includes an Adobe Gamma calibrator for this purpose. You can also buy a device that is like…
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Blue Sky in Adobe Photoshop
Lonestardigital.com – Better Blue Sky (Photoshop Tutorial). I’m learning how to use Photoshop Elements now that I’ve got my 35mm scanner working. Wow, its a hard product to learn. Very powerful, but very difficult. Current thing I’m learning is how to make the sky more blue. I wish I had used a polarizing filter on…
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PC Recommendations
Well, its somehow the end of September, as you can see I’ve been experimenting with PCs like crazy. Here once again is the PC buyers guide based on the AnandTech guides that I find so helpful. The main modifications have to do with learnings from “SilentPCReview”:http://silentpcreview.com to make the machine decently quiet. h4. High end…
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Mobile Athlon Alternative
Right now the chip to get is the “mobile Athlon”:http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1321894 as this great thread describes. There are four flavors so it is very confusing. There are: * 1.2V Mobile Athlon 2800+ and 2700+ running at 1.8 and 1.6GHz Newcastle respectively. These both have 512KB cache and should overclock OK to 2.4-2.5GHz. The 2800+ looks like…
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Athlon vs. Intel Power Consumption
Athlon 64 for Quiet Power :: SilentPCReview.com. A good review of the power consumption differences. Has a great slide on actual power consumption of CPUs: !http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/column/seti.png!:http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page3.html Basically shows that the new Intel Prescotts and Northwoods really burn up lots of power. Quite a reverse from the Athlon XP which was way hot and the original…
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Chaintech Quieting Continues
Now that I’ve figured out how to get the Chaintech to overclock, the next question is how to get the thing to run more quietly. The stock fan that comes with the Athlon 64 is incredibly loud. Runs at 3500 rpm and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. The Chaintech unfortunately doesn’t support voltage control from…
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Blackberry Desktop Manager doesn't like Outlook 2003
Forums – Desktop Manager crash. Sigh, I still get crashes from my Blackberry even with the latest software on the 7230 (v3.7) and the latest desktop manager (3.6.2.29). I get messages like uncaught exception and yesterday while dialing the phone kept crashing and going through a 5 minute reboot and reverify cycle. Arrgh. Sigh. Others…
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Elipse is cool
Eclipse.org Main Page. Pretty amazing IDE that the folks at “mFoundry”:http://mfoundry.com are using. Its amazing. This was an IBM project that they then made open source.
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Old Product screenshots
windows history. Beenlooking for old products shots. Amazing what is on the web. Here are old Windows boxes and screenshots.
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Minolta Dimage 5400 Software
Now that the Chaintech is essentially running, its time to start doing some editing with it. Main issue is to get my film scanner working. There is a dedicated Dimage 5400 “marketing”:http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage/ that doesn’t link to any support site. Arrghh. I just hate these companies without integrated website. Instead, you have to go to the…
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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Overclocking
Now that I’ve got the Chaintech and the Athlon 64 about in the right range. That is maximum memory overclock to DDR500 and maximum CPU overclock to about 2.45GHz, the next question is how fast can the Radeon 9800 Pro go. First some data on the Internet: * “Extremeoverclocking.com”:http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/video/Sapphire_9800Pro_4.html. My ATI Radeon Pro comes stock…
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XP SP2 Problems
Got my first call from someone that has SP2 causing them problems. Actually I’ve heard of two other folks with issues. Some folks think 1 in 10 will have problems with an upgrade, so beware. At my house, I have one SP2 machine that I installed as a greenfield installation, so I’m experimenting myself. Here…
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Brother HL-5170DN Truetype quirk
Brother HL-5170DN. Been using the printer. It is great with both duplex and network port. Main thing not covered in the FAQ is that it doesn’t do TrueType correctly, so printouts over the network fail. For some reason the default is to load TrueType fonts as graphics. This is fine at 300 dpi, but at…
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Flash Reader
Newegg.com – WOET TSERN ICR-A2 Beige Card Reader/Adapter. For $15 how wrong can you go. This thing lets you read just about any type of flash plus it has a USB 2.0 port as well. Great for upgrading a case that doesn’t have a flash reader.
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Crucial Ballistix Overclocking
I was able to get the Crucials to run to 217MHz before I had stability problems. This was running at the very aggressive 2-2-2-10 settings Anandtech recommends for Athlon 64. To get farther, you have to relax timings, I was curious to see what others folks experience was. The Crucial Ballistix 512MB Low Latency PC3200…
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Gigantic Fan
Thermalright XP-120: 1st 120mm fan CPU heatsink :: SilentPCReview.com. Well, if you really want to be cool and quiet get this monster. This is absolutely massive heat sink that can take a gigantic 120mm (that’s about five inch wide fan). “Newegg”:http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?DEPA=0 carries it for about $65. It is expensive, but worth it for the quite…
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Chaintech VNF3 250 Overclocking
Overclocking is a complicated topic. Here’s how I did it on this new Chaintech VNF3-250. The net is that I got an Athlon 2800+ costing $150 to perform like an Athlon 3700+ costing $400 with a 30% overclock. And also got another 10% out of the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Read away: h4. The Overclocking…
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Chaintech VNF3 250 Tweaks
Turning Legacy USB Mouse support on in bios locks keyboard o. Thank goodness for the internet, it just required the correct google query, which was google:”Chaintech VNF3-250 keyboard locked”. This told me that when you turn on USB Legacy Mouse support in the BIOS, then you get the Post Code 7C. Keyboard is locked: Unlock…
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Installing a new Windows PC
Boy it sure has gotten complicated installing Windows. Here’s what I did (breadcrumbs for Calvin’s new machine): # BIOS errors. On startup, I got BIOS errors 7F and 8C. 7F is “Keyboard is locked”. This means the BIOS thinks that there is a lock on the PC case itself and you have to turn it…
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Tongfamily Network Configuration
OK, this entry is truly for me, but with so many devices in a home now that are IP aware, I think folks are going to need some sort of mapping and documentation tool. Here’s my poor man’s network: D-Link DI-624 Router. Running WPA-PSK encryption (whatever that is, but I’ve heard it is stronger than…
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Unbricking your NSLU2
Yahoo! Groups : nslu2-linux Messages : Message 1096 of 1387 . Pray that you never have this happen to you. In my first test of the NSLU2, I did a firmware upgrade since I was having problems and it is good to get the latest. Destroyed the boot of the machine. Fortunately, there are literally…
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Linkysys NSLU2 Review
I got an el cheapo Linksys Linksys: NSLU2 – Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives which is about the size of a small camera. Plus, got a USB 2.0 enclosure for cheap from Newegg called a “Quick-Serv Penr35u2”:http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-145-843&depa=0. It cames in a box labeled Backup Q. Here is what I found. The net…
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Bike Fitting
I’ve had three folks in the last month ask me about how to buy a bike. Here are the three pieces of advice in order: # “Materialpost.com”:http://materialpost.com. John Gallagher runs this group. For $150, you will actually get a bike that fits you. Believe it or not, this is about 80% of the performance and…
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Whither Transmeta
Transmeta Unveils the Efficeon. I admit it, Dave Ditzel is one of my heroes. In the old days when I worked on IC design and stuff, the guy is a legend. They just shipped their “90 nm”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/transmeta_90nm_chips_ship/ part. I always wondered what happened to Transmeta, the ultralow power chip company. Kind of got rolled over…
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The Perfect Ultralight Notebook
Well, we are getting closer to it the perfect laptop at least in my opinion, What’s the perfect laptop? Well, it should be: * Under 3 pounds, so you don’t think about it * Have a near full sized keyboard * 802.11b/g Wifi and built-in Ethernet and VGA output without a dongle * Be less…
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Build-To-Order PCs
Well, I mainly assemble PCs myself these days, but if I didn’t want to, here is where I’d go to pay a little more for building, but get the exact components that I want at a reasonable price. In order: * ARM Systems. Haven’t ordered from here yet, but will soon. They are somewhat more…
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Shoes Online
Buying shoes online seems crazy, but both shoebuy.com and nordstrom.com have the great idea that you can exchange shoes for free if you don’t have the right size. Nordstroms is even better in that you can take the shoes in and return them in a real store. Also, the nordstrom.com site has a much bigger…