The Tech + Photo Blog

Tech companies get way too involved in their own little world. Or, rather, I might say (without ruffling any feathers) engineers at tech companies. I think that a big reason why otherwise awesome technology is not adopted or widely used is because the back end is far too transparent to the end user. Most people […]

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Oh, the crappy airline seat. It’s almost an oxymoron in its own right. I mean, aren’t they all crappy?
Well, yes. And no.
I’m talking about the seat where the back does not recline, the tray table is stuck in-between the seats, the seat in front of you has no storage room underneath, the seat across the […]

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All of the content in this wireless series is just a teaser for the book I’ve been working on along with some great writers and developers. The book is titled “SonicWALL Secure Wireless Networking: Integrated Solutions Guide”, link coming as soon as it’s up. The book should show up in stores later this summer.
I told […]

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Because taking a photograph is essentially a matter of capturing light, the night photograph is not always an easy thing to accomplish. Nevertheless there is a profound public interest in capturing photographic images at night. This article is geared towards the night scene or landscape and helps you “bend the rules” of photography a bit […]

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This is a good one. And apparently it’s pretty damned common too.
I installed Office 2007 recently, and all of a sudden Microsoft seems to think that I want to send Email in French.
At first I was a little puzzled as I read the first sentence in my email (post-spell check). Why on earth would Outlook […]

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New technology is becoming more adept at solving other technology-related problems, but we should learn that it will never be able to solve all of our human-related problems. In fact, relying solely on technology, often makes things worse. A great example of technology gone completely berserk and useless is Ethanol fuel. So today, I’d take […]

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Early 20th century inventor Guglielmo Marconi sure thought he had a grip on wireless security, stating in an interview with Time Magazine that “Ordinary wireless waves spray their messages… the beam system directs them, gaining privacy…”
That was in 1927.
Today there are terms, algorythms, standards, and acronyms galore; wireless network security seems like endless string of […]

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I really do love Adobe. I have been using Photoshop since version 5. Having to play the part of photographer, designer and tech writer — sometimes simultaneously — I use some part of their massive Creative Suite 3 on a daily basis… sometimes I have 7 or more Adobe programs open at once.
That’s why I […]

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Have you ever pondered why the heck there isn’t a “No to All” button when copying files to a new location in Windows 98/2000/XP? It’s certainly a pain when you need to copy only several new/changed files and your destination directory already has, say, 150 of the files that your source directory has.
Windows will […]

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The High Definition craze is driving me completely nuts.
One of the things that really gets my goat is the mis-use of popular technology terms. Once the product marketing world has a winner on its hands, the rest of us (consumers) run with it to the extent that it becomes an incoherent slang term, forever ingrained […]

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