Here are some photographs from the beautiful village of St. Ives on the north coast of Cornwall.
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February 28, 2006
Photographs From St. Ives, Cornwall, U.K.
Applying A Curve Modification And Selective Color Adjustment Layer To Recover Cloud Detail In An Image
A couple of days ago I was out walking with a friend in the English South Downs and took a shot of sunlight filtering through clouds onto a distant landscape. At the time rays of sunshine were visible but when I opened the image in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) they seemed to have disappeared. This post details how a couple of simple adjustments were made to the image to bring it back to life.
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February 27, 2006
Solar Eclipse – March 29th, 2006 – All You Need To Know!
Where and how to see the eclipse. An interactive Google map, observing tips, books, travel tips, Blog, photography tips, photographs and videos.
All you need to know about the March 29 Solar Eclipse!
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A Summary Of New Features On The Canon EOS 30D
a few days ago at PMA 2006, this years Photo Marketing Association convention.February 26, 2006
Photographs From Brighton, UK
Here are some photographs I took while spending a day in Brighton with friends.
Brighton is actually Britain’s most popular seaside town and despite it being a cold winter’s day with a strong easterly wind, there were still plenty of people about.
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February 23, 2006
A Graphical Tool For File, Directory, CVS And Subversion Diff Viewing
February 22, 2006
Photographs From Belfast, UK
Here are some photographs looking down on Belfast City and the surrounding area from the surrounding hills.
After a sizeable Ulster Fry in Bewley’s coffee shop I took a walk up Cavehill and surrounding area. Cavehill looks down on the whole of Belfast City and on a clear day from McCarts Fort at the top of the hill you can see a long way north up the Antrim coast and south towards the Mourne mountains.
View of Cavehill from Carnmoney Hill
Canon 5D with 24-105 f/4L IS lens @ ISO 100
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February 21, 2006
Adding A Custom Header In Mimedefang To Identify Defanged Messages As Possible Spam
This post details how to add a custom header in Mimedefang. It’s purpose here is to tag email from which attachments are removed, making it easier for spamassassin to identify and operate on such messages.
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February 20, 2006
Wordpress Theme – Genesis
Genesis is a Wordpress theme that has the following features:
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February 17, 2006
How To Configure Junk Mail Settings In Mozilla Thunderbird v1.0.x And v1.5
Mozilla Thunderbird possesses excellent junk mail controls which through Bayesian analysis of your email and careful training are capable of learning which messages are ham and which messages are spam.
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February 16, 2006
A Technique To Increase Dynamic Range Using Blended Multiple Exposures In Adobe Photoshop CS2
This post describes a simple and effective technique for producing an image with higher dynamic range from two differently exposed images using Adobe Photoshop CS2. It is amenable to use with jpeg images so you don’t have to shoot in RAW to use it.
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February 15, 2006
How To Perform In-Place Editing Of A File Using Perl
This post describes how to perform in-place editing of a file using Perl.
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February 14, 2006
Boosting And Monitoring Traffic In Wordpress
Here are some things I have been doing over the past few weeks to boost and monitor traffic to this site.
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Configuring Mozilla/Firefox To Open Postscript Files In A Separate Window Under Linux
The default behaviour of Mozilla/Firefox is to open Postscript files within the browser. This post details how to change that behaviour so that they open in a separate application window.
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February 13, 2006
Ten Little Known Photoshop CS2 Camera RAW Tips
I found this interesting article by Scott Kelby (editor of “Photoshop User” magazine) which is, believe it or not, published on the Microsoft website …
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