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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ISO (International Organisation for Standards) is also the Film speed in photography. Film speed is the measure of photography film’s sensitivity to light. Film with lower sensitivity (lower ISO) requires a longer exposure and is thus called a slow film, film with higher sensitivity (higher ISO) can shoot the same scene with a shorter exposure and [...]

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Depth of Field (DOF) is the portion of the photograph that is in focus as compared to the rest of the areas of the photo.
Factors that depends on DOF:

Subject distance from the camera
Focal length
aperture

Some links on DOF:

wiki: DOF
cambridge in colour
mir.com
DOF calculator
ephotozine

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Aperture is the opening through which light is admitted into the camera and in photography it refers to the diameter of the aperture.
Some links on aperture:

wiki: aperture
wiki: f-number
mir.com
digital photography school

Measurement of aperture is in f-number = the ratio of the focal length to the aperture diameter.

picture credit
Calculation of f-number: where f is the focal length, [...]

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Exposure is the amount of light falling on the image sensor of a DSLR.
Some factors affecting the exposure:

when aperture is small, exposure is low and when aperture is big, exposure is high
when shutter speed is small, exposure is low and when sutter speed is high, exposure is also high

Some links on exposure

wiki: Exposure Value
wiki: exposure

Measurement [...]

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Shutter Speed is the length of time the camera shutter is open and it is alos known as the exposure time.
Some factors affecting shutter speed:

total exposure is propertional to exposure time/light reaching the image sensor of a DSLR
faster shutter speed requires a larger aperture, and slower shutter speed requires a smaller aperture

Picture credit 
Some links on [...]

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Book Title: The Hig-Tech Personal Efficiency Program
Author: Kerry Gleeson
Year written/published:1998
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: Organising your electronic resources to maximise your time and efficiency
Some extracts:
Paper control points at work area:
1. Tray system – In, Out, Reading, Pending
2. Reference files
3. Archive files
4. Woking files
5. Your work
6. Recycling/dust bin
Working files usually contain 6 types of information:
1. Fingertip [...]

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As veronica from tekzilla shows us a really fast and easy way to rename a groups of files in the Windows…

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This is by far one of the most rugged ‘tripods’ i have seen for  SLR cameras: Gorrilapod. And for a heavier DSLR Zoom cameras, the Gorrilapod Zoom models are simply awesome.

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Here’s another new gadget that i’m in love with: SOLIO. All it needs is the sun and it can charge almost any handheld device! Here are some of the facts from the website:

Charging Solio’s internal battery takes 8-10 hours of direct sunlight.*
Solio will charge your device at the same rate as your conventional charger.
Using the [...]

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I want this water powered clock! Yes, really… this clock is powered by only water. Here’s how…
The internal converter simply extracts electrons from water (or other liquid) molecules and provides a steady stream of electrical current acting as a fuel cell to generate power to the clock.
Check out this and a lot other eco-friendly gadgets [...]

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London Underground metro is so dense, that by connecting the points of stations some pretty cool animals can be drawn out! Reminds of how the ancient people once connected the stars above to creat objects of their own imagination as well.

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Private, journalling, very simple interface… and very sleek. Another web application as picked out by the tech65 guys… i’m very much liking the PENZU

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a really helpful post from Paul. And i had to test it out… using the flickrSlidr

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a screenshot of a typical french keyboard:
So you have to press Shift to type in the numerals. Apart from the commonly used shift key, Alt Gr is also used to type in different symbols and alphabets.
Apart from this french keyboard, i learnt that there are even more types of keyboards!!

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A really cool stuff.. for adding little things to your website Google Gadgets

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I was meddling with meta tags and robots when i came across Google Webmaster and its Help Centre. A neat little tool for stats on Search and spiders.

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Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three laws:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any [...]

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