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Using Photomatix to lighten dark digital photographs

This post allows readers to compare the before and after versions of two sets of digital photographs. All of the digital photography editing was performed with the free trial version of Photomatix, basically to lighten the subjects which were too … Continue reading

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How to schedule email with Gmail

Short answer: Use Boomerang… will write more later. Resources: How to schedule sending of an email with Gmail Boomerang Google Groups forum: Is there a way to compose an email and schedule it to send at a later date and … Continue reading

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CSS testing: Rotating an image via CSS (Portrait-landscape)

Testing… NOTE: This CSS image-rotating test uses content from the post, Wonders of the Universe: BBC documentary series on cosmology, astronomy on the main brain-dump blog. This post has just gotten started; now watching the first episode in its entirety … Continue reading

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How to burn a DVD with Freemake Video Converter freeware

Eventually, this post will include an idiot-proof How-To set of steps showing how to burn a DVD that will play in a normal DVD player. I had wrongly assumed that burning to DVD by default implied that the burned disc … Continue reading

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First experiment with NextGen Gallery: Free WordPress plugin

This is my very first experiment using the free NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin; it took over an hour to figure this much out. (I’m not referring to the sunset image shown here, but the photo gallery on this hiking blog … Continue reading

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