Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category

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Vertical Verticals

Posted: August 4, 2011 in Tips
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The one thing that bothers me the about some of my photos and the photos of others is having straight lines that are not parallel to the vertical and horizontal plans. What I mean is vertical lines should be vertical and horizontal lines should be horizontal. The exception to this is converging lines like train tracks. [...]

Photomatix HDR Basics

Posted: July 24, 2011 in Tutorials
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This is an overview of what HDR is and an overview of how to use Photomatix. You can see all free tutorials by checking out Trey Ratcliff’s

More HDR From Trey

Posted: July 24, 2011 in Tips
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Here’s one more HDR walk-trough From Trey Ratcliff. This time he’s at the Eiffel Tower showing you how he shot a great photo after sunset.

Trey’s HDR Tutorial

Posted: July 22, 2011 in Tips
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The fantastic photographer Trey Ratcliff shows you a little about his shooting HDR procedure.

Ninite

Posted: January 3, 2011 in Tips
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In the previous post “Tips For A New PC” the Tekzilla boys mentioned “Ninite” a web application that collects all of your favorite free software and roles it up in a nice executable package so you can install all of those apps at once in a single install.

Tips For A New PC

Posted: January 3, 2011 in Tips
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Here are five tips to get your new computer ready for action.

Windows Maintenance Tips

Posted: April 21, 2010 in Tips
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There is a lot of talk about Windows maintenance. What services should turn off? Which utilities should I use? To sleep or hibernate? Here’s a article from Lifehacker. It is the best article I have seen on the subject.

One Is Not Good Enough

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Tips
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I have a set I rules I follow when computing. The first three are backup, backup, and backup. This poor lady came to my computer users group with a external harddrive that was not functioning. I took a look at it. When I plugged it in to the power it started click loudly.

Microsoft Technet

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Tips
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Download all an use all of Microsoft’s software and use it forever without time limits or feature limits. You can download anything Windows Server, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Windows 7 and everything else.