Archive for July, 2008

A New Digital Camera?

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Digital cameras have come a long way in the last few years, and right now you might be looking at your current camera and thinking, "I really should replace this thing." How do you know it is time to buy a new camera or upgrade the camera you already own? Here are a few hints:

1. Your camera doesn't work anymore. Okay, that one was sort of obvious; here are a few more subtle clues that it is time for a new digital camera in your home:

2. The camera doesn't take the pictures you want. This was my...

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Speaking of storage…

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
My dad loves to buy my family technological "toys." For Christmas I received a SimpleTech/160GB SimpleDrive portable hard drive. That's right, 160GB. I have no clue what I am going to do with 160GB of free space. Maybe I can put every single one of my family's pictures on it. Oh wait, I'd still have 155GBs of storage left! Now I know that I should not save everything to my external hard drive. What would I do if I spilled something on it or if it broke by accident? Of course, one way to use the drive is...

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Photo Hacking?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Imagine taking a family trip to see, say Mt. Rushmore. You spend the day at the site, snapping pictures of your kids and spouse in different poses in front of the monument and then, when you get home and download the images (or get your film developed if you still take photos "old school style"), instead of a happy smiling family standing in front of Mt. Rushmore, you see a happy smiling family standing in front of Mt Rushmore….and George Washington has a picture of a Range Rover plastered to his forehead. You don't remember Washington advertising Range...

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