April 18th, 2010 |
by teocomi |
published in
Panorama, Tips&Tricks
I have been taking panoramas for a long time always hand-holding the camera, I quickly noticed how hard it is to do this in a small ambient. To avoid strong parallax errors the only solution is using a panoramic head. There are many professional (as much professional as expensive) pano-heads out there, you can check [...]
April 18th, 2010 |
by teocomi |
published in
Panorama, Tips&Tricks
EDIT: In the following article I am erroneously talking of “nodal point” but the correct term is no-parallax-point or entrance pupil, infact:
The nodal points are widely misunderstood in photography, where it is commonly asserted that the light rays “intersect” at “the nodal point”, that the iris diaphragm of the lens is located there, and that [...]
March 25th, 2010 |
by teocomi |
published in
Tips&Tricks
Are you going for a brand new netbook? Are you not willing to spend a lot of money for a Mac? Well, consider the idea of creating an Hackintosh: a normal pc running Mac OS.
So have a look to www.mymacnetbook.com for a nice compatibility chart.
Visit also: OSx86 Project.
March 9th, 2010 |
by teocomi |
published in
Tips&Tricks
Running XAMPP or WAMP as local web servers is extremely useful to test websites, but sometimes it gets pretty annoying when other processes use port 80 (i.e. skype) so that Apache can’t start.
Recently I had the process “System” using that port, and I couldn’t help stopping it! Finilally google gave me the right solution:
You can [...]
February 26th, 2010 |
by teocomi |
published in
Tips&Tricks
That’s a very useful feature unfortunately not integrated in Gmail by default, but we can enable it via Gmail labs.
If you don’t have labs active yet, just log in into your Gmail account and then go to the address https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=1#settings.
Then labs-> Default ‘Reply to all’ (by Mark K).