Pending regulatory review,
Announced March 8, 2006, the merger is expected to end during Q3 of ’06 and will make Lexar a subsidiary of Micron.
Warning: This is a blatent plug for another site I’m developing.
I started a tutorial posting on ProPhotoForum – a site I’m a moderator on – on the steps required for building a web site from scratch. I’ve discovered that for most people new to web development, knowing where to start is the hardest part. So this
What I realized is that this tutorial was going to be much longer than I originally thought. I hadn’t realized how many little steps there are to getting a site designed and running, and how confusing each of these steps can be for someone who has never been there before. So I spawned the tutorial out onto its own site and BobSmithPhotography.net was born. So after I catch up copying all the postings over there, I’ll be publishing future postings to both PPF and BobSmithPhotography.net.
Here’s a quick video on how to create a mini seamless background setup from eBay.
I know this is about 6 months late, but here are some images from when my wife and I decided that we needed to evacuate from Houston to Austin when Hurricane Rita blew through. Turns out there wasn’t even any wind damage to our house. Heck, the rose bushes still had all their leaves.
Being the camera nerd that I am my camera gear was on the list of things that we had to take with us. So when I got bored sitting on IH-10 I pulled out my camera. It’s not nearly as dangerous as it sounds – the fastest we got going was about 5 miles per hour.
This is the view out of my windshield that I enjoyed for about 12 hours.
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I suppose it’s a good sign. It must mean my little corner of the internet is at least getting linked to somewhere. Comment spammers have started hitting me pretty hard. Fortunately I moderate all the comments so they won’t show up. But it’s still a pain to deal with them.
As part of the PMA show,
Both use Canon’s ContrastPLUS ink system and deliver 9600x2400dpi. The MP830 can print up to 30 pages per minute black and white and 24 pages per minute in colo.
The MP830 has IRDa built in to allow wireless printing from PDAs and cell phones.
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Announced Feburary 21, just prior to the
On Februray 21, Canon released the next generation of their mid-level dSLR cameras, the DOS 30d. Aside from the name so closely resembling a previous generation, the d30, there is apparently some frustration from Canon fans on the seemingly small upgrades to the 30d over its predecessor, the 20d. Read the rest of this entry »
Last weekend we went away for a mini-vacation at The Get Away Cabins in Weatherford, Texas, just south of Fort Worth. The landscape is very typical Texas – cedar and oak trees, hills, cactus, and deer.
This is one of the best features of digital cameras. To get this image the camera had to be so low to the ground that I couldn’t see through the viewfinder. So, I guessed. It took about 3 shots to get the one I liked, but I got it because I could check after each shot and aim again.
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I recently upgraded from a painfully slow Athlon 600mHz that has been sitting under my desk for the past 5 years or so to an eMachines T6524. While admittedly not the fastest computer out there, it is still exponentially faster than what I was used to.
The problem I had is that I’ve become used to (or addicted to, your choice) having dual monitors. I had incorrectly assumed that I could simply drop a PCI video card into my new machine and have twin monitors again. But, it wasn’t that easy. After several hours of trying different solutions and Googling for more, I decided that I’d look for a PCI-e dual head card to make the process as easy as possible.
What I found was hopefully an even better option, the Tritton See2 USB to VGA adapter.
So, how did it do? About as well as I expected, but not as well as I hoped. The video is choppy, just like pretty much every review I read stated.
The installation was amazingly easy. Stick the 8cm CD-ROM in and install the driver. Reboot. Plug the monitor into the adapter and the adapter into a USB 2 port. And the second monitor comes to life.
Would I recommend this? If you’re not expecting to be able to run quick video on your second monitor, this is a great device. It’s perfect for what I needed – a monitor to hold Photoshop palettes. If you’re planning on playing games on your second monitor, skip this box and get a real second video card.
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