Thanks to digital cameras, taking photos like a pro has become easy, even for true beginners like me.
Besides the simplicity of taking a photo, we can also edit and polish them with ease, using various image programs.
For example, with software like Adobe Photoshop, you can transform your digital photos into extraordinary pieces.
However, if you’re just starting out with Photoshop, I can recommend this handy guide, Edit Your Digital Photos, which lets you master it within 2 hours.
Here are 10 Digital Photo Fixes You Should Know About:
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by Ken on December 14, 2009
in Tech
How useful would a tablet PC be to me?
The PDA seems to be evolving into a different kind of appliance, perhaps a smart phone. Could the same be true of the tablet PC?
A tablet PC is a special notebook computer outfitted with a digitizer tablet and a stylus that allows a user to handwritten text on the unit’s screen.
The stylus can take the place of a keyboard when users use an on-screen input panel or tap letters and numbers directly on an on-screen keyboard.
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by Ken on December 13, 2009
in Gadgets
Now, thanks to WikiReader, you’ll never have to lose another heated discussion at work, school or a party, just because you couldn’t back up your points.
WikiReader is an amazing gadget that adds the power of 3 million articles, from Wikipedia, to your pocket.
Even though WikiReader is jam packed with information, it fits neatly into your palm, ready to serve you instantly, without the need of connecting to the Internet.
It comes with a practical touch screen, with scratch resistant tempered glass, that lets you type, search and scroll, using just your fingertips. The display works very well, regardless if you’re outside in the sun, or indoors, in a dimmed room.
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With the latest word from Google, that they MIGHT consider to include loading speed into their algorithm, I decided to have a look what I could do to improve the performance of my WordPress blog.
It turned out that there is a lot you can do, without involving your host’s tech department, to speed up your blog, considerably.
However, before you start fine tuning your blog, you must first know how it performs right now, in its current state. It might just happen that you’re so fortunate that your blog loads at the speed of lightning, but how would you know, if you not test it first?
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by Ken on November 19, 2009
in Tech
I recently gave up on Windows and switched to Linux. I decided to go with the flavor that I have the most experience with, Ubuntu.
In this post, I will not get into the details to why I decided to leave Windows. That will be a post of its own, in the near future.
Nevertheless, Ubuntu 9.10 worked right out of the box on my system. I just needed to do one adjustment to remedy a minor problem, but besides that, everything has worked like a charm.
However, Ubuntu ships with just one browser, one that I’m not that found of – Firefox, which I think is too heavy on everything from resources to how it behaves, which is not to my liking.
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The easiest and maybe the fastest way to squeeze money out of your blog is to use Adsense. Using Adsense is simple, straightforward and within minutes, you will have ads that fit your reader’s interest.
However, if you want to get some real income from Adsense, then a few cents per day (which is the cold truth for many bloggers), you’ll need to do more than just copy and paste some piece of code, onto your blog.
You have certainly read success stories about bloggers who rake in hundreds of dollars per day from having Adsense on their blogs and what they all have in common, besides traffic, is that they think out of the box, making things a little bit different. These bloggers rarely spills their Adsense secrets all over, which is quite natural, would you?
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