Archive for October, 2006

Babes in Business

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

A friend sent a link to this site:
http://www.babesinbusiness.com.au

This might be interesting to any professional working woman.

Lightboxing

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I’ve built a cheap lightbox to experiment with still life shots and improve my lighting skills. This one was made from sheets of foam from Reverse Garbage (thanks Amp), masking tape, cardboard and lots of lights from Bunnings. I’m using the cool daylight 125watt halogen globes, plus an extremely hot portable halogen spotlight.

It’s great because I can take photos any time of the day. The diffusion of light is great inside the box but the masking tape has caused some problems, and I have had problems with glare and reflections on glassware. Next on my list is to try a lightbox using diffusing material with the light sources placed outside.

lightbox

Eyeball Lights

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

These are cool!

http://www.madreinspain.com/

Free, unlimited, online access to the best reference books

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I admit I don’t use the local library much at all, however this article made me think again.

http://www.theoldie.co.uk/oldie/content/story/228205.html

Checking for Spyware

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

My Dad rang me recently wondering why his computer was running slow and how he could check for any nasties living inside his machine. I put together some instructions for my brother Tim not too long ago, and forwarded these onto Dad. And so, for posterity, I am putting them here as well - I hope they help someone !

1. Follow these instructions step-by-step

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

2. Also make sure you delete temporary internet files# Empty your internet cache.For users of Internet Explorer:

* Close all instances of your browser.
* Open Control Panel and double click on Internet Options.
* In the General tab, in the section where it says Temporary Internet Files, press the button marked Delete Files.
* In the dialog box that pops up, place a check mark in the box Delete all offline content.
This removes all subfolders that are created in the Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5 folder.

For users of Netscape or Mozilla:

* From the menu bar, choose Edit / Preferences / Advanced / Cache.
* Press the Clear cache button.

For Mozilla Firebird/Firefox:

* From the menu bar, choose Tools / Options / Privacy / Cache.
* Press the Clear button.

For Opera users:

* From the menu bar, choose File / Preferences / History and Cache.
* Press Empty Now.