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Shoot HD Video with Any LiveView Canon EOS Camera

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:16:30 -0400

Shoot HD Video with Any LiveView Canon EOS Camera:

It’s almost a given for new Canon DSLRs to have an HD video recording mode, but older Canons can also capture HD video with the open source software EOS Camera Movie Record. The program allows you to shoot HD 720p video with any Canon EOS camera that has LiveView capabilities. The software runs off of your computer and captures HD video from the LiveView of a tethered camera. Photographer Peter Arboine has an article up at DIY Photography about how he uses the software to shoot video with a Canon…

Shoot HD Video with Any LiveView Canon EOS Camera

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:16:11 -0400

Shoot HD Video with Any LiveView Canon EOS Camera:

It’s almost a given for new Canon DSLRs to have an HD video recording mode, but older Canons can also capture HD video with the open source software EOS Camera Movie Record. The program allows you to shoot HD 720p video with any Canon EOS camera that has LiveView capabilities. The software runs off of your computer and captures HD video from the LiveView of a tethered camera. Photographer Peter Arboine has an article up at DIY Photography about how he uses the software to shoot video with a Canon…

Please sir, some more? - Articles on permissions // Slicehost - VPS Hosting

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:59:02 -0400

Please sir, some more? - Articles on permissions // Slicehost - VPS Hosting:

More articles, that is. This time about a subject both esoteric and essential: File permissions. Yes, Linux file permissions can be pretty scary, especially when you see your first “chmod 755” or “chown root:www-data”. A lot of times explanations don’t even help that much, and you only really start to understand permissions through trial and error. But we’ve taken a shot at the explanation thing, covering aspects of file permissions ranging from what it means to own a file, to changing permissions with…

Textarea Tricks

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:58:31 -0400

Textarea Tricks:

Oh, ’s. How many quirks you posses. Here is a collection of nine things you might want to do related to textareas. Enjoy.

You can add a background-image to a textarea like you can any other element. In this case, the image is a friendly reminder to be nice =). If you add a background image, for whatever reason, it can break the browser default styling of the textarea. The default 1px solid bolder is replaced with a thicker beveled border. To restore the browser default, you can just force the…

When to use $_SESSION vs $_COOKIE

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:55:44 -0400

When to use $_SESSION vs $_COOKIE:

Brian Muse on July 20th, 2010 Posted in Tutorials

A critical feature in web programming is the ability to seamlessly pass data from one page load to the next. It’s used most commonly when dealing with user logins, but also for passing error messages, shopping carts, etc. Storing data across pages using PHP is done with two variables in the global scope, called $_SESSION and $_COOKIE, and although accomplishing the same end goal, the both go about it in very different ways. The purpose of this article is to…

How To Find The North Star And Why You’d Want To

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:53:47 -0400

How To Find The North Star And Why You’d Want To:

by Peter West Carey And before those of you in the Southern Hemisphere jump all over the title, with its clear Northern Hemisphere slant, don’t worry, I’ll be talking about the Southern Cross (Crux) as well. There just wasn’t room in the title to fit in all of that. Let’s start off with the ‘why’ and then move to the how. For those of you well versed in astronomy this may all seem very simple to you and you’re welcome to skip right over. But as I’ve traveled I’ve been amazed at how many people, while…

8 Steps to Crafting Images in Lightroom

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:52:14 -0400

8 Steps to Crafting Images in Lightroom:

by Helen Bradley

Lightroom has more tricks up its sleeve than simple photo fixes such as exposure and contrast. It’s possible to craft images inside Lightroom and, in many ways, the tools in Lightroom make the task easier than it would be in Photoshop or another editing program. In this post I’ll show you a way to turn a relatively hum drum image into something much more visually exciting. So, when you don’t get the image you want straight out of the camera see if, armed with some simple Lightroom tools,…

Took this yada yada.

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:12:22 -0400

Took this yada yada.

Our Solar System built with CSS3

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:19:18 -0400

Our Solar System built with CSS3:

Clever experiment. I wonder what this looks like in IE.

Handbrake presets for the iPhone 4 and the iPad

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:29:36 -0400

Handbrake presets for the iPhone 4 and the iPad:

Been looking for this for a while. Presets save time.

Perfect Exposure Every Time: A Guide to Metering in the Viewfinder

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:25:53 -0400

Perfect Exposure Every Time: A Guide to Metering in the Viewfinder:

This is one of the fastest ways to learn how to start using the Manual dial on your DSLR camera. The author did get some of the terminologies mixed up but the article itself and the illustrations are pretty handy.