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Great tips for making use of the different settings on that digital camera of yours: Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings

From recent Paxton Prints News feeds

1. Ten Tips for the Absolute Photoshop CS2 Beginner
2. Leading Lines in Photo Composition
3. Take better candids with digital camera
4. Sunset Photography Tips and Techniques

Final three free iPhones from upstartblogger.com.

There’s a very good looking premium WordPress themes give-away contest going on over at WordPress Theme Designer. Check out the details here…

Prizes for the Premium Themes Contest by WordPress Theme Designer!
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You wouldn’t mind winning an iPhone would you? Check out Big Arena Records, a new independent record label. Visit the site to find out how you can enter to win.

Get LiquidCD if you need a great piece of freeware that burns CDs and DVDs built for Mac OS X.

LiquidCD can:

• Burns MP3, AAC or QuickTime audio to an audio CD
• Can be used to make backups of your data
• Can burn a PictureCD of your photos for viewing on a TV with a PictureCD compatible DVD player
• Can burn disk images, such as .iso, .dmg, .toast, cue/bin and .cdi (DiscJuggler) and some .nrg (Nero) files

The Great Mac OS X Freeware List at MacApper

“Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.”

Go read Tim Ferriss on killing distractions.

I’ve been enjoying my used 10D for about a year now and this is a collection of information on the camera that I’ll be adding to occasionally mostly for my own reference, to help me learn and make better use of the 10D.

Canon’s Stalking Horse — Canon 10D

A Photographer’s Review of the Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR

Canon 10D Experience Report

Cleaning the CMOS Sensor of the Canon EOS 10D (and other digital SLRs) - photo.net

Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon EOS 10D

Gmail is now rolling out IMAP access for email to some accounts. This is good news and here’s why.

More here:
Official Gmail Blog: Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP

36 Reasons Flickr is a Photographer’s Ultimate Tool

Upgraded my MacBook to 2 gig of ram yesterday. I’m noticing things launch faster and run faster–everything is generally faster. That was a cheap and easy performance boost.

Why I’m More Productive on a Mac - PaulStamatiou.com

Here’s a great photography tip accompanied by some great photos: Photograph the Light not the Land

Josh Sowin on going after your Self-taught MBA.

Google docs is handy and in case you haven’t realized it’s potential maybe you need to watch this video.

Via: Official Google Docs Blog: And now we present…

Tim Challies has a drawing during September for volumes from the Reformed Expository Commentary series. Click the image to enter–doing so also gives me another entry. You’d like to help build my library wouldn’t you?

If you have an occasional Microsoft Word document or RTF formatted document you want to convert to clean HTML–and I mean HTML that has no more than standard formatting applied such as bold and italics but no font or color declarations–and you have to get those documents on the internet, then it’s hard to find a good tool for easily converting those documents. Having switched to using a MAC full-time I’ve been looking for a good process for converting such documents to HTML for posting through the WordPress blog interface. The article at macosxhints.com, Convert formatted text to valid HTML using TextEdit, is just what I was looking for. This is a simple process that uses TextEdit on the Mac to cleanly and easily format text for the web.

Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens

How to Write Faster, Better, and Easier

Simplify Your Images

OS X File Encryption

TokBox: Video chat without having to download software. May have to try this out since the MacBook has the built in iSight camera.

DIY Muslin Studio Backdrops

On treating your laptop, iPod, and iPhone batteries right

Tagging my bookmarks has been wonderful. Today I discovered Punakea for Mac OS X which looks very promising in that it will allow me to tag the mountain of files I seem to dig through every day looking for the one I need at the moment. Finding files can be irritating to say the least. Punakea looks like it just may ease some of the frustration of finding files.

“Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure.”

I try to get things done (gtd), I really do. But when I can’t do it right away or I’m trying to do something else and an important item needs to be placed on my list of things to do I want a quick way to add it to my list so I can get back to the task at hand. Enter Quicksilver and the append to a text file from anywhere tip from 43 Folders.

Clever - Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Picked this up from the Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk

This is a very cool Firefox add-on that makes it possible to drag and drop attachments in Gmail - dragdropupload