Monthly Archive: March 2007

Mar 08

That’s all she wrote?

Ever catch yourself writing or speaking to someone, mention a catch phrase or idiomatic string of words, and wonder, “Will they know what that means?” Since my Daddy is from the south I’ve heard all manner of southern phrases from him that when repeated (instinctively) by me leave numerous Yankees with a puzzled look on …

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Mar 06

Resolving to acquire greater Resolution

When plagued with original photos, images, or graphics which contain jagged pixels (jaggies), you can quite often clean-up the appearance of that file if you simply reduce it’s overall size without resampling it at the same time. Granted, most garden-variety image editors provide no control over this resampling step. But if your editor has a …

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Mar 03

Vista Capable versus Vista Competent

A recent article at TechRepublic reports Dell web site qualifications of a PCs running Windows Vista. It appears a new branding category is emerging as a method to sell legacy hardware for use with Vista. Dell’s interpretation of “Windows Vista Capable” definition adds the following description for such hardware: “… the ability to boot the …

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