You don’t have to own a professional photo camera to take advantage of accessories such as filters. Many common cameras offer the possibility to attach filters in front of the objective. Out of all kinds of photo filters, one makes it possible to photograph water in its depth: the circular polarizing filter. Polarizing filters allow [...]
You love photography. You could drive for hours, you could wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning, you could walk through swamps, only for the sake of taking a great landscape photo. What if your best shots are spoiled by those ugly electric cables which seem to be everywhere? What if naughty tourists move [...]
If you use your laptop with an external monitor and you make that monitor primary, you always need to remember switching the settings back to the initial ones before disconnecting that monitor. If you forget, you’re in trouble, because the Display Properties window doesn’t show on your screen, so you can’t access the display settings [...]
New point-and-shoot camera models are better every day. They can take awesome quality photos at large resolutions, so even beginners can be very proud of their portfolio. That’s great, but when you want to send your latest vacation photos over email, you wish they were smaller. Here are two free applications which will help you [...]
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I’m a fan of naked gadgets, so it’s hard to motivate me to buy a cover or a case, no matter how many brilliant reviews it may have. I must to admit, though, that I’m impressed with the newest all-in-one iPad 2 keyboard, cover and stand, ZAGGfolio. ZAGGfolio is the latest creation of ZAGG, the [...]
If you followed my previous lessons on how to make a website, you should already have a domain name and a hosting account. You should also have your DNS servers pointing at your webhosting company. Now it’s time to start building your website. If you don’t know too much about web design and programming, the [...]
Buying a domain name is not enough to have a website up and running. You need to host your site on a server. In order for this to work, you have to point the DNS servers of your domain name to the values indicated by your webhosting company. I’m giving you this example: I bought [...]
When I wrote about what you need to start a website, I only mentioned the basic technical things that make a site work: domain name and webhosting. However, in order for a website to become successful there are many other things needed. One of them is the branding. You want to build your site into [...]
Since I’ve started to do web design for a living, many of my friends asked me to teach them how to make a website. They thought it must have been very complicated, so they were a bit skeptical about their abilities to do it, considering their lack of coding skills. I’m happy to say that [...]
I used to think Google was awesome. I joined their AdSense program in 2006 and made sure the sites I used it on were 100% complying with their TOS. I was sure people who got banned from AdSense did something wrong which they didn’t want to share publicly. I never thought I’d ever get banned [...]
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