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Basic photo enhancements with The GIMP

For a while now I have been using the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The trial expired and it's still a bit too much for me to pay for. I love Picasa but it doesn't have all the features that Lightroom spoiled me with while I was using it. Fortunately,...

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SMC WiFi Phone for Skype (WSKP100)

The Reason For Purchasing A couple of years ago I had a no-contract cell phone and before then I had a pre-paid cell phone. I got rid of those in 2005. They were simply too expensive. Ever since then I've been using Skype, Gizmo or just using the house land-line to...

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20" ViewSonic Optiquest Q20WB LCD Monitor

If you recall from the Taco HTML article I wrote back in June, I mentioned that my 3 year old Envision LCD (Envision EN7100) decided to kick the bucket. Ever since then, up until the 5th of October (earlier this month, for me) I had been using my backup CRT monitor. I...

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Logitech Premium Stereo Headset

A month or so ago I was getting ready to call someone on Skype. For some reason I had my Logitech USB headset unplugged. I plugged it in and the volume was extremely loud. Everytime I would go into the volume control (in Windows) and bring the volume down it would...

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e-GeForce MX 4000 on Fedora 7

Last night I decided to go ahead and try to get the official Nvidia drivers installed for my GPU on Fedora 7. I was hesitant to do this because normally whenever I try to do this I break something and wind up having to re-install the entire operating system because I...

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Fedora 7 (Moonshine) Review

Finally after many months of it being available I am able to sit down and install the latest version of Fedora, not Fedora Core, simply Fedora. The Fedora group decided to ditch the "Core" and "Extras" versions of Fedora and focus their attention on one version. I...

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Last month (May 2007) I wrote a blog entry about Aperture. At the time I was house sitting for my sister who had just got a new iMac. When I came home I was disappointed that I didn't have a similar application to use for working on my photos. Last fall I had played...

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Taco HTML Edit

On Monday morning my 17" LCD monitor decided to kick the bucket. I guess it was time for it to go out, the 3 year warranty expired in January so that's usually when things go out. Since then I've been using my iBook a lot more because it has a brighter display than...

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Aperture Review

Last night I was chatting with my friend Steve and he mentioned that I should install the Aperture trial. I thought it was a great idea so I did and here are my "first look" thoughts. When you first start up the application you have several options to get started. You...

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Wubi

If you've ever wanted to try out Linux and you're a PC user. Now you can and you don't even have to worry about destroying your Windows installation and the best part of it is that you don't even have to set up a separate partition for it. There are no longer any...

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