91 year old former FBI official W. Mark Felt has been confirmed as the informant “Deep Throat” who provided information that ultimately led to President Nixon’s resignation and impeachment.
I’m going to put out a blatent plug for a new site I’m working on. It’s cameras.nutt.net and has information on a few classic cameras, with more to come as I have time to write about ‘em.
Who says Microsoft Paint is too limited a program? If you have 500 hours to spend, and a lot of artistic talent, you can create some outstanding artwork.
I needed a way to turn off Google Ads while I was developing a site of mine so it didn’t skew my statistics. With WordPress it was pretty easy, I just checked if user level was equal to 10 and then not show the ads. But, I needed something different for site that I was using Etomite for. Read the rest of this entry »
Just in case you don’t believe it, look at the picture. I was going to stick a $1.99 picture I took with my phone, but I saw this on the way to dinner. If you’re in Houston, the gas station is a Diamond Shamrock at the corner of Hwy 6 and Memorial.
In an informal survey, VeriSign found that 66% of people would give up their passwords for a $3 Starbucks gift card. One participant stated that they felt safe giving out their password because they didn’t give out their username. Most were also willing to give out common hints; such as mother’s maiden name or their dog’s name.
Adobe announced today that it is building a royalty-free image library called Adobe Stock Photos. Offering 230,000 images; it allows viewing from Getty Images, Jupitermedia, and Digital Vision; among others.
The service can be accessed through the new Adobe Bridge component in Photoshop CS2 allowing drag-and-drop functionality.
Since last November Firefox has been downloaded 50,000,000 times.
Gary Hendricks put together a pretty good list of 5 free photo programs, including a couple I haven’t ever heard about. My only beef is that he left out IrfanView.
So, now to have a little closer look at the two methods for brightening up a drastically underexposed digital shot.
Note that this is a continuation from a previous post. You probably need to read that page first for this one to make sense. Read the rest of this entry »