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Canon i9900 Paper
68lb. UltraPro Gloss – Gloss Inkjet Paper. I’ve been printing up a storm now that I’ve gotten our Canon i9900 to work. Started with standard Canon paper, the Plus works really well and I love the status monitor that shows you how much ink there is the printer. But, the quality of the pictures is…
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USE Alien 8mm Cradle does not fit
I got a Fizik Aliante seat from you and also an 8mm cradle for my USE Alien. The problem is that the cradle doesn’t fit the post. It seems that it is a little too big. My post is from 2000, so I’m wondering if they’ve changed the post somehow since then. you: Hi Josh:…
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Passport Photos
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China Visas
China requires a visa for travel. There is a business visa and a family visit/tourist visa. You can get a multiple entry visa if you have a letter saying you have family there or you have a letter from a business there. Get the forms from Chinese Visa, Passport, Notarization & Authentication. “Additional Visa info”:http://www.chinaonlinetravel.com/visa.htm.…
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Multimedia notebooks
Besides the ultraportable, other folks have been asking me for the classic desktop replacement. Big and heavy at 6 pounds, but with a huge 15-17″ screen. These are great for music and video editing for consumer. As usual, reliability is the number one criteria, but the other ones are screen size and quality, DVD writeable…
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Spoken Word in Lame
Hydrogenaudio Forums – encoding the spoken word – settings?. Got a bunch of spoken word, here’s how to encode really small with Lame. You only need mono and a low bit rate. Some recommendations are to use a very low bit rate (-V 7) and also to use mono (-a) _lame -V 7 -a_ Another…
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Unsharp Mask
Understanding USM. OK, now that I’ve colors about right, now its time to futz with the actual images in Photoshop. Some of the things are understandable. Changing the Brightness (e.g., the Black Level), so if a picture is very bright (has a high black level), you turn it down, this means that everything looks darker.…
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Canon i9900 ICC Profile Guide
Well, now that I’ve got our Canon SD500 working and also calibrated all our monitors with the Spyder2 Pro, things are looking way better on the various monitors around here. The photos are way more natural and I for one can now really tell the difference between my LCDs. The el cheapo Optivision 15, the…
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Lame switches
Hydrogenaudio Forums -V n (in Lame 3.95.1). They keep changing the switches in Lame. First in the early versions, you used -r3mix and got the best. Then it was to use –alt-preset standard and then –alt-preset extreme Then it was just –preset standard and –preset extreme. Now they have converted this to the -V option…
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Sony VAIO for Ultraportable
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