I love this entry form XKCD!!!!!

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Find and Replace function is a powerful tool. It can cut down many repeated replacement processes in word processing. Some replacements need not be character. For example, New Line Breaks or Spaces can also be replace.
In MS Word, I found this useful:
Edit -> Replace -> More -> Special -> Paragraph Mark -> Replace With: <space>

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I have been wanting to experiment with web designs et al and it is better to expriment on our desktop first before putting it up in the internet. Setting up a local server is really easy. This post shows how to set up a local server with wordpress engine with xampp.
So, while the local folders/roots folder [...]

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I just downloaded the Google Chrome - the web browser from Google. The immediately observation was its SPEED and minimalist clean interface! I’m waiting for more plugins and features… till then, enjoy the Google Chrome story.

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Book Title: 500 Digital SLR Hints, Tips and Techniques - The easy, all-in-one guide to getting the Best out of your digital SLR
Author: Chris Weston
Year written/published: 2006
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Contents page:

Camera Set-up
Image Quality
Getting Ready
Using your DSLR
Flash Photography
Useful Resources
Different Subjets
Camera Care
External Devices

Some extracts:
#33: I have found most useful playback screen to be the highlights screen, [...]

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Finally i found little applications that i can display on the desktop without the use of any browser or opening any applications… Yahoo Widgets!! Clocks, Convertors, weather, countdowns etc…
Looks like i need to explore something similar - Google Desktop gadget!

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I just discovered a genre of art form - creating pictures with ASCII characters! yes i have seen bits and pieces of them, but i never knew there is such a serious art form - ASCII ART! And one of my fav ASCII art has to be from Chris!
 

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All networks are interconnected to allow communication with a variety of different kinds of media. There are 2 kinds of medium:

Guided : open wire, twisted pair, coaxial cable, optical fibre
Unguided : Radio propagation

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When a set of computers/devices are connected to exchange data, the networks possible are:

local area network (LAN)
wide area network (WAN)
wireless LANs and WANs (WLAN & WWAN)

Network topology includes:

Bus
Star
Tree (hierarchical)
Linear
Ring
Mesh

partially connected
fully connected (sometimes known as fully redundant)

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So here goes the IEEE 802 standards that we see around us…

802.1 Bridging
802.2 Logical Link
802.3 Ethernet
802.4 Token Bus
802.5 Token Ring
802.6 Distributed queue dual bus (DQDB)
802.7 Broadband LAN Practices
802.8 Fiber Optic Practices
802.9 Integrated Services LAN
802.10 Interoperable LAN security
802.11 Wi-Fi
802.12 Demand Priority
802.13 Not used
802.14 Cable modems
802.15 Wireless Personal Area Networks
802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
802.17 Resilient Packet Ring
802.18 Radio Regulatory TAG
802.19 Coexistence
802.2 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
802.21 Media Independent Handoff
802.22 Wireless Regional Area Network

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I’m in love with this new art form that i saw - Electric Canvas. These artists transforms huge building facades into magnificent designs and themes using only light projections. Now talk about arts, physics and engineering all coming into play!

picture credit

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and so i learnt the 10 important terms for the basics of photography:

shutter speed
exposure
aperture
depth of field
lens
ISO
metering
white balance
focal length
DSLR technology

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How is a DSLR different form a film SLR?

and a review on the Canon 40D

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Camera lens… some links…

phographers.co.uk
photo.net
cambrige in colour

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The metering system in a digital camera measures the amount of light in the scene and calculates the best-fit exposure value based on the metering mode. There are 3 types of metering mode:

Overall Metering (Multi Segment/Zone Metering)
Spot/Partial Metering 
Center Weighted Metering

Some links about metering:

digital photography school
dpreview
ephotozine
weather scapes

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White Balance (WB) is the process of rendering the colours in the photograph so that it appears more neutral. Some times there is a blue or yellow cast and this can be removed with shifting the white balance so that original white colours looks white!
Some Links…

cambridge in colour
wiki
photoxels
dpreview
photoshop tutorials

Measurement of White Balance can be done [...]

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I must be one of the slowest to discover this… but i just love Wii… especially Wii Fit!

picture credit

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I finally found a car that runs fast as well as it’s environmentally safe with no pullution! Hybrid Technologies has the solution with their litium powered batteries. My future car!!

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How to choose a good password with high password strength? A good password is hard to guess and yet easy to remember!

at least 6 characters long
mix of lower and upper cases, numbers and punctuation marks

how to create one…

think of a phrase and use the first alphabet
don’t use names and address and Identity numbers

some links on [...]

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Focal length of a camera lens system is a measure of how strongly it converges (focuses) light. A photographic lens is used in a camera to make images of the opbjects on the film or other image sensors.
Some links…

wiki: focal length
wiki: photographic lens
photoxels: Focal length
focal length

Measurement of focal length is done in mm. nowadays:

Wide-angle lens 18mm, 20mm, [...]

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