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How many megapixels do you need?

One thing to consider is how the photos are going to be viewed. Will they be displayed on a TV or computer screen or will they be printed out? Most DVD resolutions are 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL). The most common computer screen resolution is 1024×768 pixels. Pixel count on an HDTV is typically 1280×720 […]

Easy color harmony

For those who have trouble matching colors EasyRGB’s Color Harmonies will do it for you. You give it a color and based on the color wheel it will use common methods (Triadic, Split complements, Analogous, Monochromatic, Complement) of finding harmonies, complements, and themes. This is useful for trim or accent colors on websites, home decor, […]

Unable to build vmhgfs module

I had trouble building the vmhgfs module (the one that allows shared folders between guest and host computers) when trying to install VMWare Tools in Ubuntu 7.10 running in VMware Workstation 6.0.2 build-59824 on Windows XP. I was getting the following error: Trying to find a suitable vmhgfs module for your running kernel. None of […]

Baby Do’s and Don’ts

Quotes for the Software Side in you…..

“I invented it, Bill made it famous.” David Bradley (wrote the code for Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the IBM PC) “As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I […]