Monday, October 12, 2009

45 Dual-Screen Wallpapers

From Six Revisions:

If you have two monitors in your work environment -- a common set up amongst design and development professionals -- you can use a desktop background made for users who have multiple screens. If you would like to find out about tools that give you the ability to use multiple monitors and computers, you may be interested in reading about five free tools for multi-monitor computer set-ups.

Click here to see all 45 dual-screen wallpapers.



Friday, October 9, 2009

Large Photo From Recent Sedona Hike

Here's one more photo from the recent hike I took with my youngest daughter, Rayel, long-time family friend, Douglas, and two friends of Rayel's, Myles from New Zealand and Matt from Zimbabwe. You'll need to click on this photo to see a larger image which, in turn, will let you see where the hikers are (and how big the rocks are). Before you click on the image, can you guess where the hikers are? There are some impressive Native American ruins immediately in front of the hikers, just around the corner to the left...

Photos From Recent Sedona Hike

Here are a few photos from a recent hike I took with my youngest daughter, Rayel, long-time family friend, Douglas, and two friends of Rayel's, Myles from New Zealand and Matt from Zimbabwe.



Thursday, October 8, 2009

Are New Image Sensors About To Revolutionize Digital Cameras?


Cheap Naked Chips Snap A Perfect Picture
By Paul Marks
New Scientist
October 7, 2009

EXCERPT:

How can image sensors -- the most complicated and expensive part of a digital camera -- be made cheaper and less complex? Easy: take the lid off a memory chip and use that instead.

As simple as it sounds, that pretty much sums up a device being developed by a team led by Edoardo Charbon, an engineer at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute (EPFL) in Lausanne. In a paper presented at an imaging conference in Kyoto, Japan, this week, the team say that their so-called "gigavision" sensor will pave the way for cellphones and other inexpensive gadgets that take richer, more pleasing pictures than today's devices. Crucially, Charbon says the device performs better in both very bright light and dim light -- conditions which regular digital cameras struggle to cope with.

Read complete article.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Sedona Celtic Harvest Festival - 2009

Here's a short video from Sedona's first annual Celtic Harvest Festival. The Festival took place Saturday, September 19, 2009 in Sedona, Arizona at the Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa and Tequa Festival Marketplace. To watch another video and find out more about the event, go here. To see photos from the Festival, go here. To visit the Festival's website, go here. The theme song for the video below, "Feel So Near", is sang by Steve Colby and John Good of Oceans Apart.