How To Tutorial: Making Sin City style pictures with Photoshop

"I was fooling around with PhotoShop, and discovered a easy, effective way to create Sin City style pictures (black and white with a touch of color). Create some very nice looking pictures."

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How To: Tutorial on Creating HDR Images

If you want to try this out. HDR imaging is all the rage these days but it can be done easily with images from even low end digital cameras and without an expensive Photoshop plugin

Here's an excellent little tutorial/resources on how to create an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image in Photoshop CS2. This requires a camera that can allow you to control exposure (bracketing), and a tripod or solid surface to work off. HDR... it's the latest trend.

Other resouces:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/automatt/sets/72057594091674928

Amazing Pictures of Manhattan

http://www.cypherxero.net/blog/?page_id=436

Amazing Pictures of Tokyo

http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/04/13/10-pictures-of-tokyo-gotham/

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How To: Taking More Effective Images with your Digital Camera

"To become a more effective photographer, shoot a lot more pictures. Here are a few key tips: Free yourself from the viewfinder..Shoot more images in one setting..Shoot now, edit later..Plan for post."

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How To: Setting Up a Axis Camera WebCam/Server

Using the Axis 2120 WebCam is very easy. A web server is built into the camera itself, you do not need a computer. All you do need is a network port (there are dozens scattered around world) and a power outlet. Watch some GoogleMaps based Axis WebCams Visit here.

Watch Webcams from around the world - Owning a axis camera i noticed that they use a unique url to access the webcam stream. I decided to try it in a google search and quess what i found out, I had access to all these axis cameras that are on the internet! Check it out! Some cameras you can even Control the Pan, Tilt and Zoom. My Google search here and fan sites of Axis Cameras here.

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Axis Introduces "Worlds Smallest" MPEG-4 Network Cam

Axis Communications introduced an MPEG-4 network camera that is "about the size of a deck or cards". Designed for indoor surveillance and remote monitoring applications.

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DIY Camera Hacks

"Tutorials range from hacking digital cameras (e.g., accessing memory stick duo in a memory stick reader without an adapter) to building camera mounts for your bicycle and car to building your own hand trigger."

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Wicked homemade flame thrower!

Some kids messing around, but still pretty damn cool! They take a super soaker and turn it into a flamethrower!

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List of Windows XP Commands

All the comands you'll ever need in Windows XP, This website has a decent size list of Windows XP command prompt commands explained. Check it out! also check Microsoft's list Command-line reference from A-Z here.

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Who's Connected To Your PC

First I want to give credit and respect to SubZ3r0 (a digg member) for creating this software nice GUI and keeping this app simple and stable!

Who's Connected is A Little app that gives you information about whats using your Internet connection. Works well for finding out whats using up all your bandwidth or just finding the location of a bandwidth using process. I use this tool alot and thought other people could find use for it.

Cons:
Windows has a similar tool:
Run>cmd>netstat
[user@localhost $] netstat or netstat -a -b -n -o

MAC OSX has a similar tool:
open up the terminal and type: lsof -i

Linux has a similar tool:
etherape is a cool graphical representation of bandwidth monitor [Link]


What you Need:
Who's Connected v1.0 [Download]

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Faster browsing on the Internet or your Network

By doing the following steps you canbrowse on the Internet or Network faster. It uses the same tecnique as http://localhost. When you type http://localhost you will be redirected to your own ip. By adding some lines you could reach your ip by just typing http://l. Observe that some names can effect your network.

cons:
This doesn't work with name based virtual hosting which is used by many sites (try it with digg.com). Many browers have an option to add a keyword to a bookmark which will basically do the same thing (go to http://www.google.com/ when you enter "search" for example) but works with every site.

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Why I Use A9.com?

The ugly ducking of the search engine doesn't have Google's raw power or Yahoo!'s portal-like extras, but Amazon's pet search engine is still one of the most powerful engines around example. The fact that toolbar users get a 1.6 % discount at Amazon.com isn't bad either. You only have to use it about once a week to get the savings.

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Using two wireless routers to set up a big wireless network

UPDATE: Due to the overwhelming queries regarding this subject, I have put together a document describing how to do this and put some diagrams in the document too. It is located here: wireless.pdf

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How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Monitor

Sometimes, if there is a dead pixel, it's usually stuck, as the liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) has not covered the whole screen. This can be easily fixed.

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How to Find Your IP Address on a Mac

Use Finder to open the applications folder, then Utilities, then terminal. When the terminal window opens, and the prompt appears, type ifconfig . The IP addresses will appear on the lines that start with "inet".

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How to Tune up Your Windows XP PC

Here are some expert step-by-step tips for tuning up, tweaking & optimizing your personal computer running the Windows XP operating system. Clean at your own risk!

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How to Use Windows XP

Here's your one-stop shop for learning how to use the features and technologies that come with Windows XP. Yeah I'm kidding this is just a test story for by first Techblog. Thank you for reading.


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