Archive For June 11th, 2004
I didn’t know how to use them a few weeks ago, now the web seems to be overflowing with tutorials like this on histograms. I link to this one because it shows the multi-colour histograms available on some Canon cameras. I noticed in the GIMP 2 that the Curves tool has a nice histogram in [...]
Mark links to lots of useful tools and gizmos but I see a lot of trouble ahead for this camcorder. Record your life? Who’d ever relax or be themselves around you if they knew that a camera was recording them all the time? No doubt I’ll be completely wrong and it’ll change society like mobile [...]
Humour? Is it funny? Today In Alternate History explores things that might have happened. in 1944, the desperate push by the Allies to invade Europe and end Hitler’s control of the continent is begun at Calais, France, under the command of General George Patton. Despite Patton’s brilliant leadership, the Allies are defeated, and Nazi control [...]
This guide may be useful to some. I don’t use Windows very often but some of the apps mentioned are cross-platform, and occasionally I do switch it on to play the odd game or two! And while we’re on the issue of setting up a PC, configuring a Linux install to boot off a software [...]
Today’s APOD photo is a stunning close-up of the Venus transit of the sun. Click on the image for a larger version, amazing!
In his latest column, Cringely discusses weblogs, and points out what many of us know already, that “most web logs are so boring.” Can’t argue there! zzzz, oh sorry, nodded off there. His name dropping at the end of this column is cleverly done, he met a then governor for dinner way back in 1978. [...]
