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July 23rd, 2008

Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings

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


Posted in Photography

July 14th, 2008

Four photography tips

June 2nd, 2008

Three more iPhones being given away

Final three free iPhones from upstartblogger.com.


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June 2nd, 2008

Premium WordPress Themes contest

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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January 19th, 2008

LiquidCD easily burns CD’s and DVD’s on your Mac

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

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January 10th, 2008

Mac OS X Freeware big list

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December 5th, 2007

How to do non-destructive dodge and burn in Photoshop


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November 14th, 2007

Let bad things happen

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

Go read Tim Ferriss on killing distractions.


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October 27th, 2007

Canon EOS 10D

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


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October 24th, 2007

IMAP on Gmail – woohoo!

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


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October 19th, 2007

Flickr a Photographer’s Ultimate Tool?

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October 17th, 2007

Increase your MacBook ram for a performance boost

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.


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October 17th, 2007

A few Mac productivity pointers

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October 11th, 2007

Photograph the Light not the Land

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


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September 25th, 2007

Pursuing your self-taught MBA

Josh Sowin on going after your Self-taught MBA.


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September 22nd, 2007

Google Docs is handy

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…


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September 17th, 2007

Enter the drawing for commentaries

sept Giveaway 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?


Posted in News

September 16th, 2007

HTML formatting Word or RTF for blog posts

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.


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September 6th, 2007

Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens

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September 4th, 2007

You do want to write faster, better and easier right?

Posted in Writing

August 31st, 2007

Give your photos a clear purpose

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August 19th, 2007

Secure a file with Disk Utility

Posted in Mac, Security

August 15th, 2007

No download video chat

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


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August 9th, 2007

Make your own photography backdrops

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August 9th, 2007

Take care of those Mac batteries

Posted in Mac, iPod

August 2nd, 2007

Tag those files

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.”


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July 27th, 2007

Add it to your list – with Quicksilver

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.


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July 26th, 2007

Deal with email overload.

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July 18th, 2007

Drag and Drop attachments in Gmail

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


Posted in Email, Firefox

July 18th, 2007

Mac Tip – Learn iPhoto

Posted in Mac