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09 Aug, 2010

Tilt Shift in Aperture

Posted by: mike In: odds & ends

I keep coming across amazing tilt shift images. If you’ve never heard of this, it’s a photographic technique for creating a shallow depth of field (using lenses or digital post-processing) and can be used to turn a suitable photo into a fake miniature. There are many ways to do this using the digital post-processing route [...]

21 May, 2007

Flickr for my photos …

Posted by: mike In: odds & ends

I’ve come against a problem recently … because I have so many photos I am exceeding the limit my hosting company sets on storage and bandwidth so … time for a change. From now on all photos will be stored on Flickr. I’ve had to upgrade to a pro account but it’s still cheaper than [...]

23 Feb, 2007

GeoRSS stuff

Posted by: mike In: odds & ends

This post is mainly a work-in-progress for me so I can get my thoughts together on GeoRSS.

18 Oct, 2006

… long live linux!

Posted by: mike In: odds & ends

Well, I am writing this on my newly installed computer running linux … Windows XP is NO MORE Ha Ha! I have got the Fedora Core 5 flavour of linux, once I had backed up my old stuff onto a Buffalo (the harddrive not the large mammal) it took only an hour to reformat my [...]

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16 Oct, 2006

Windoze is dead …

Posted by: mike In: odds & ends

Great start to the week for me, booted up my PC on arrival at work at 8.30am and 2 hours later it’s still trying to get Windows XP started … oops! I have been having some odd happenings on this particular PC (Dell Dimension 8400) in the past few months but there was still plenty [...]



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