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Continue reading →: Kryptonite locks are not…
I have one of these Kyptonite locks for my bike. How depressing when this happens. Here net is from “Kryptonite”:http://kryptonitelock.com Kryptonite U-locks with a typical cylinder lock can be opened in seconds with a common BIC plastic pen. Videos of how to do it have been downloaded hundreds of thousands…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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