Hunter Donald

I’ve changed my mind with the Omnia. After reading several reviews I ended up getting one, and I’m quite happy with it. I’ve had the device for about a week or so. Pros: Good battery life, good call quality The custom today screen is pretty well laid out. Widgets are a good way to get what you need....

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After you've installed Lightroom 2.2, you'll notice that the camera profiles have been released as part of the upgrade. That means that if you've installed the previous beta camera profiles, you'll have duplicate profiles (one with the beta tag and one with none). To remove the beta profiles, follow...

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If you've purchased an audio book on CD, and you've already ripped the CDs to your machine, unless you took the right precautions, you forgot to rip the CD as a single gapless file. That sucks when it comes to audio book playback. To fix this, we should first talk about how to fix it in the future. I...

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After seeing this picture on Flickr, several co-workers were debating whether or not the photo was real. Shortly thereafter, we found the "how to" picture that showed how the water hat was created. I was hooked! I really wanted to replicate this shot. My first attempt was during my lunch hour at work...

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Recently, there was talk about the water hat shots , and people debated whether they were real, etc. During our lunch hour on the Charlotte campus, we decided to give it a go. First – some lessons: Noon hour light (as always) can be hard to work with Don’t step in fire ant hills trying to find the right...

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If you're using Entourage 2008, you might have noticed that some of your contact groups may not be working anymore. When trying to send to a group of recipients, you might get a 5.1.3 error. Whenever I got that error, I’d open the group from within the email to see the bad address, and there was always...

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This is a video of the Top Ten Angry On-Camera Meltdowns. Hope you enjoy.

Today my wife wanted to take a picture collage she made in the print module of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and save it to a JPEG (JPG) file that she could then take to a printer like Shutterfly or Target. In Lightroom 1 (LR1) there isn't an easy way to do this. Apparently in Lightroom 2 (LR2) you can ...

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This website is freaking amazing! Stuff White people like is a list of items with commentary that explains why exactly white people would ever like a certain thing. The list ranges from architecture to hating parents to Japan and The Daily Show. Take several minutes out of your day to read this site...

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I tried to upgrade to Graffiti 1.1, and I ended up losing some data because I had to restore from a backup... Sorry. I'll need to backup my stuff more often. Sigh.

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