With recent advances in digital cameras, it is possible to take photos that are of acceptable quality for offset printing. There are three basic factors that will determine whether images produced by your camera are suitable for printing: compression , resolution , and file format . 1. Compression affects image quality and destroys image data. Compressed photos are NOTsuitable for printing. (more…)

How To Choose The Camera That’s Right For You Thinking of getting a new digital camera but aren’t sure how to pick one that’s right for you? Here is a list of the most important things to know about digital cameras. Once you know this, you can quickly and easily compare different brands and models and choose one that fits your lifestyle. The number of megapixels you need depends on what you will do (more…)

Friends ask me how they should choose the digital camera that’s right for them. All I can offer are a few tips and some of my prejudices, and maybe a few techniques I use in phototography. I’ve tried to write something here for everyone: I hope beginners will benefit from the first part of this article but they may not ready for the more technical parts…yet! (Just wait!) Intermediate photographers may find they (more…)

Before shooting: 1. Choose the Resolution and Image Quality Settings for your camera a. Choose JPG High for most uses. b. Choose the highest resolution available for your camera. On our Olympus Cameras, this will either be 7MP (3072×2304) or 10M (3648×2736). 2. Choose the right Drive Setting a. For single pictures, select the drive option. (Recommended for most situations). b. To shoot multiple (more…)

Q: Why is the file size of my pictures taken at high quality setting so big? A: This is the most important thing to remember about digital cameras. The higher the quality setting the bigger the file size will be. Then taking pictures for web use or to put in publications you should use a lower quality setting (usually the first level should do). If your intent is to print the image so it looks like a “real” picture when you should use (more…)

With the wide use of digital cameras, there are a few things to consider to help ensure the best photos. 1. Purchase a digital camera with at least 4 megapixels. 2. Buy additional memory for your camera. Most digital cameras come with a small memory card and will only allow a few photos to be stored when taken at the camera’s highest settings. If you have a 3 megapixel camera, get at least a 256 MB (more…)

Overclocking the Eee is the best way to improve its performance. Many people add extra RAM, faster RAM (which is a waste of time, more on this later), and cut down their OSs (see here ) in order to squeeze every last bit of processing power available. What is overclocking? Overclocking is the process of increasing component clock speeds above stock. Theory behind overclocking Overclocking is not a difficult concept, (more…)

Resources ! ! Processor: 400MHz Arm ! ! RAM: 128Mb ! ! Storage: 16 Gb ! ! Screen: 3.5″ ! ! Weight: 120 g ! ! OS: OS X (Darwin) ! ! Wireless: 802.11b/g ! ! Cost: U$ 400 Tiff Exploit ! ! Developed by Niacin and Dre ! ! On your iPod touch, navigate in Safari to ! ! http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com ! ! It will crash your Safari and return you to the homescreen, but this is expected Tiff Exploit Let’s take (more…)

This script will copy the selected iTunes playlist to iPod. It will check if the playlist already exists on the iPod, for files that already exist on the iPod, and the iPod’s free space. Be sure to set your iPod Preferences to “Manually manage songs and playlists”. This script is Donationware. If you use it and like it please consider making a donation to support my AppleScripting efforts. Click here for more info. (more…)

T his is a book about a music player and music software, so I think it’s reasonable to start off with a chapter about music before we get into the wackier stuff. A beginning is a delicate time—let’s begin our adventure with some delicate, friendly hacks. Share Your iPod Apple has always focused on making products for individuals: One of the company’s early slogans was “one person, one computer”, (more…)