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Charities and giving
Grace’s friends have been contributing to a fund to help others. A good discussion about what to do with it. Here were some suggestions: * “Northwest Harvest”:http://www.northwestharvest.org/. Even a country as rich as the US has folks who don’t have enough food. It’s also easy to donate. Either drop it off at “Cherry Street”:http://www.northwestharvest.org/cherrystreet.html which…
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Bioshock
“Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com says that I should run not walk to get “Bioshock”:http://pc.ign.com/articles/813/813641p1.html. It certainly sounds fun. In the FEAR genre. Personally, I kind of like the pseudo realism of Call of Duty. It isn’t so accurate as to be hard, but a good combination. I would only say that even Call of Duty 4, doesn’t quite…
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Another Sigma Review
I’m so torn as to whether or not getting the Sigma 18-200 OS makes sense. Photozine.de reports it is soft at 35mm, but pretty good at 18, 50 and 200mm. The Pophoto.com review shows that it has better image quality at 200mm than the much acclaimed Nikon 18-200mm. Rick at “Fredmiranda.com”:http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic2/547490 reports the same thing,…
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Pumpkin Patches
!<http://www.south47farm.com/IMAGES/2007/2007%20maze%20low.jpg! Time once more for figuring out where to get a nice pumpkin. Around Seattle, “Remlinger Farms”:http://remlingerfarms.com is perhaps the biggest and most famous. It opens at 10AM on weekends. “Pumpkingpatchesandmore.org”:http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/WApnw.php actually has a self listing of you pick sites in the the state of Washington. Another good one is “South 47 Farm”:http://south47farm.com which is…
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Call of Duty 4
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DxO 4.5.1 will not display on Mac OS X
!<http://www.dxo.com/design/dxo_int/images/0/pix.png! The latest version of DxO (my favorite image editing tool), won’t display properly on the latest Mac OS X 10.4, it used to work with 4.5, you just have to turn off the GPU Acceleration option. On the Mac, this is in DxO/Preferences DXO – Simply better images Since version 4.5, the acceleration function…
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Polarizing Filter
OK, I have a UV filter to protect all the lenses, but there is one filter called a “circular polarizer”:http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/polarizer.html which most folks will tell you should have. It has a couple of purposes. When taking pictures of fish in water, you can actually see the fish !http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/filter-polar-fish-wo-pl-icon.jpg! !http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/filter/filter-polar-fish-wi-pl-icon.jpg! And when taking landscapes, it makes…
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$10 Upgrade to Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard for Macs bought on or after October 1
Apple – Mac OS X Leopard – Up-to-Date Customers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh computer on or after October 1, 2007 that does have not Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard included can upgrade to Leopard. Powered by ScribeFire.
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The Perfect Travel for Canon is the Sigma AF 18-200 F3.5-6.3 DC?
I’ve already mentioned that the Nikon D40X and their 18-200 lense are a wonderful travel kit, but what about the Canon user? For the Canon photographer, there is no equivalent until now. The new “Sigma AF 18-200 f/3.5-6.3 DC OS”:http://www.popphoto.com/cameralenses/4603/lens-test-sigma-18-200mm-f35-63-dc-os-af.html seems to have lots of sample to sample variation, but at least PopPhoto.com found that…
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Mac OS X Startup items
In Windows, there are a zillion ways things can start. The registry can do it, there is a special group in Start Programs that does it. You have to always look carefully to make sure not to be too slow. The Mac OS X isn’t any different. Here are the places you need to look…