Archive For July 6th, 2004

Developing Photos That "Pop"

This is the first part of a tutorial that’ll show you how to improve “muddy” overcase photos. I’ve only scanned through it, it looks a little complicated but I’ve messed up exposure settings so many times this technique will be useful!

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Ads Suck, Internet Sucks Bandwidth

Using hosts file you can stop most of the banner adverts out there in one fell swoop. I’m installing this at home. Browsing via a 56K modem is painful enough…

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Most Popular Posts

I’ve just added a new plugin to the site that lists the most popular posts on your blog. The command is {popularposts} which creates an array, $pposts, containing the list of posts. Unfortunately it’ll only work if you use the newer $blogid/archives/p/1/ type url, not the old $blogid/archives/m/200407/#1 Thank you Nargler for the MySQL substring_index [...]

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Synthetic Lighting for Photography

This is a technique that’ll make your photos that little bit more extra-ordinary!

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Rules Du Jour – Stop the Spam!

The Spamassassin Rules Du Jour is an invaluable bash script that’ll update commonly used SA rules from various sites. Put it in /etc/cron.daily/ to have it run once a day! I have SA fairly well trained already so it didn’t make much difference to my setup but it’s well worth installing especially as new classes [...]

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