Archive for December, 2006

The Digital Photography School blog has “16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas“. These holiday-centric photography tips focus on getting the most out of your camera in low-light settings, and capturing photos with a warm feel that reflects the season. In addition to technical photography tips, Digital Photography School also suggests a few common-sense ideas like designating [...]

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As 2006 draws to a close, Of Zen and Computing would like to sincerely thank all of its readers for contributing to the success of its first year. It has been truly amazing to watch OZaC grow from zero to its current state since it was born back in March, and we can only look [...]

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Wesley Novack suggests that Instant Messenger users check out GAIM. GAIM is a free, open-source instant messenger program that is able to connect to the AOL IM service (among others). We agree with Wes; at Of Zen and Computing, we jumped the AIM ship in favor of GAIM on our Windows PCs a long time [...]

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Advice on educating your child about socializing online, your first defense against a predator.

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Problem: you’ve got a laptop or an older desktop that’s quickly running out of storage space for all the digital stuff that you’ve managed to accumulate.Solution: You can purchase an external hard drive, effectively adding extra storage space to your same old computer. External hard drives connect to any computer via USB or FireWire.Better Solution: [...]

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SmartClose is a free Windows program that gives you one-click control over all of the programs you’ve got running. From the SmartClose website: “SmartClose is a free program that will automate the process of closing all running programs. It can also save the state of the system to a system snapshot, so all the programs that [...]

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An explanation of how a typical eBay auction works, for those who want some insight into the system before taking the leap into the online auction market.

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An introduction to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google’s free web-based alternative to Microsoft Office.

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Instructions on producing one of the most common file formats around: the txt file.

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An introduction to the OpenOffice.org office productivity software suite, a free alternative to Microsoft Office.

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