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  • 6 Mega Pixels might be enough!

    6 Mega Pixels might be enough!

    Are you concerned about megapixels? They may not be as important anymore as they were. Take a look at what Image Engineering has to say about the subject. Also, check what they say about diffraction, a subject that few people ever think about. Usually it has been said that you should step down your aperture [...]

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  • Free Christmasgift from Divx!

    Free Christmasgift from Divx!

    Edit: The holiday is over, and the free stuff has ended for this time. But the free version is still a keeper! We all love free stuff. Especially when it is something we otherwise would have to pay for. The fine people behind Divx has decided to give out a gift this holiday season. It is [...]

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  • How to remove a white background with the Remove White plugin

    How to remove a white background with the Remove White plugin

    If you use Photoshop to isolate objects from their white background, you might have heard of a small plugin called Remove White. I used it back in the days of Photoshop 5 and really loved the way you could lift out any object from the white background with a click. If any pixel was not completely [...]

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  • Is your SMTP server blocked?

    Is your SMTP server blocked?

    It is now the rule rather than the exception that port 25, the normal port for outgoing mail (SMTP) is blocked. This creates big problems for users like me that moves around a lot. I have to find out what SMTP is available in the network where I am connecting. And if that one is [...]

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  • Welcome to the Google show!

    Welcome to the Google show!

    Google has realised that video is a great way of communicating. The issue they tackle in this short video on YouTube is privacy. There has been a lot of rumors about what kind of information Google stores about us when we search. And I guess the biggest sceptics will just call this video a smoke [...]

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  • RSS made simple

    RSS made simple

    Do you try to keep a finger on the pulse of your favorite blogs and websites? Do you spend a lot of time clicking your way around to the same websites every day? Then RSS is the right thing for you. No idea what I am talking about? Well, I was going to write something [...]

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  • Track this camera!

    Track this camera!

    When you want to embed animation and graphics into moving images in a believeable way, you have two main choices. Either use a computer controlled camera rig, or buy horribly expensive software. Until Andersson Technologies came along. Their software, SynthEyes, will set you back only USD 399 and runs on both Mac and Windows. Not too [...]

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  • Bandwith theft

    Bandwith theft

    My first thought was to contact the author of the site. But this is an Arabic site and I do neither speak the language nor write it. Then I remembered an article I read at Eirikso.com about this and thought I would try something similar just to see if it was detected.

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  • NOT lost in translation

    NOT lost in translation

    I sometimes need to make the content in a video available in other languages. Or the content is in a different language than what my customer use. Because dubbing is not used for anything else than programs for kids in Norway, I need to subtitle the program. None of the editing systems I know have [...]

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  • Write stuff

    Write stuff

    Sometimes you get big, positive surprises. I got one last week when I stumbled across a program I had never heard about before. Making TV programs, you need to plan your production and write a script. There are a few programs out there that do this, but they are any good at all, they cost money. [...]

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