Archive for May 9th, 2009

Nikon Coolpix S52 9MP Digital Camera Zoom Review (Red)

The Nikon Coolpix S52 9MP Digital Camera Zoom with 3x Optical Vibration Reduction Zoom (Red) is as close to perfect as you can get in a point and shoot camera. Canon seems to get all the attention in this space, but I like the Coolpix family of cameras best out ...

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Kodak EasyShare M1073IS 10.2 MP Digital Camera Review (Red)

I cannot understand why anyone would ever rate this camera low, and most reviews on electronics support me. I have 2 SLR digital cameras both at 10.6 megapixels. i needed something a little smaller that i could carry around with me since the SLR cameras are so big. I picked ...

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Digital Photography 101

by Sam Katz When thinking about purchasing a digital camera, a number of things need to be taken into consideration. For a new person, this could be quite intimidating, but digital cameras are easier to understand than you might think. Picking the Right Camera One of the most important things you’ll need to do is decide on which camera to purchase. Cameras have different levels of quality but when it comes to making a good decision, it all boils down to four main features: lens aperture, r

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Tips to Help the Beginner Digital Photographer

Are you thinking of purchasing a digital camera, but don't know where to start? Read on for some beginners' basics.

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Tips to Help the Beginner Digital Photographer

by Sam Katz Are you thinking of purchasing a digital camera, but don’t know where to start? Read on for some beginners’ basics. Picking the Right Camera One of the most important tools needed when adding digital photography to your lifestyle, is the tool itself. What type of camera should you buy? What makes a digital camera good or better? In actuality it boils down to four major features plus the type of software that’s packaged with the camera. The four features include: resolution, len

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From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen

May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There's plenty of laboring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here's how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission:Ares V Unmanned Cargo Rocket, EDS and Altair: The Gear Goes Up First First it's the turn of the giant unmanned Ares V, carrying most of the real hardware you'll need on your journey. You and the rest of your astronaut compadres walk around the pad hours ahead of the launch—a metaphorical

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DisCatalog v3.0.452 Enterprise Edition

With DisCatalog you can catalog all your disks regardless of which kind of storage medium: hard disks, CDs, DVDs, Audio-CDs, MP3, digital cards like cards in digital cameras etc. You can import an existing database of the previous version 2.0 directly. It's possible to catalog previews of every file: contents of Word-, Excel-files (e.g. docx, xlsx), thumbnails of pictures and photos (e.g. jpg), ID3-Tags of MP3-files. The search function will search within these previews, too. DisCatalog shows

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Movavi VideoSuite v6.1.4 (New)

Movavi VideoSuite makes you look like a video whiz, with minimal effort. Burn, rip, copy, fix, filter, split, convert - you name it... Split video automatically and manually. Rip, burn and copy DVDs. Create and send original video postcards. Convert videos & DVDs to run on any mobile device. Edit videos, insert transitions, add filters and special effects. Capture video from your digital and web cameras. Supported video formats: Input formats: AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), MPEG (MPEG1, MPEG2, VC

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n00b guide to digital photography

PC Magazine has a useful guide to taking your digital camera off automatic. David Sifry’s 2007 guide to buying a digital camera still gives good guidelines, although the particular models he recommends are of their day. ABetterBounceCard.com tells you how to use a piece of paper to vastly improve the results of flash photos. (via Tim Bray ) And here’s a way to make a diffuser for your built-in popup flash . (I haven’t tried it.) Here’s one for $20, which I also have not tried.

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Adobe Photoshop Elements v7.0

Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop raster image editing product, sold at a fraction (roughly 1/6th) of the cost of the professional product or bundled with related hardware such as scanners and digital cameras. It contains most of the features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options. The program allows users to create, edit, organize and share images, all from the same product. Originally introduced alongside Photoshop version 7, P

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