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Blue Sky in Adobe Photoshop
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Continue reading →: Blue Sky in Adobe PhotoshopLonestardigital.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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PC Recommendations
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Continue reading →: PC RecommendationsWell, 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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Mobile Athlon Alternative
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Continue reading →: Mobile Athlon AlternativeRight 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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Athlon vs. Intel Power Consumption
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Continue reading →: Athlon vs. Intel Power ConsumptionAthlon 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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Chaintech Quieting Continues
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Continue reading →: Chaintech Quieting ContinuesNow 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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Blackberry Desktop Manager doesn't like Outlook 2003
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Desktop Manager doesn't like Outlook 2003Forums – Desktop Manager crash. Sigh, I still get crashes from my Blackberry even with the latest software on the 7230 (v3.7) and the latest desktop manager (3.6.2.29). I get messages like uncaught exception and yesterday while dialing the phone kept crashing and going through a 5 minute reboot and…
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Elipse is cool
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Continue reading →: Elipse is coolEclipse.org Main Page. Pretty amazing IDE that the folks at “mFoundry”:http://mfoundry.com are using. Its amazing. This was an IBM project that they then made open source.
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Continue reading →: Old Product screenshots
windows history. Beenlooking for old products shots. Amazing what is on the web. Here are old Windows boxes and screenshots.
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Minolta Dimage 5400 Software
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Continue reading →: Minolta Dimage 5400 SoftwareNow that the Chaintech is essentially running, its time to start doing some editing with it. Main issue is to get my film scanner working. There is a dedicated Dimage 5400 “marketing”:http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage/ that doesn’t link to any support site. Arrghh. I just hate these companies without integrated website. Instead, you…
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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Overclocking
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Continue reading →: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro OverclockingNow that I’ve got the Chaintech and the Athlon 64 about in the right range. That is maximum memory overclock to DDR500 and maximum CPU overclock to about 2.45GHz, the next question is how fast can the Radeon 9800 Pro go. First some data on the Internet: * “Extremeoverclocking.com”:http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/video/Sapphire_9800Pro_4.html. My…