Windows 7 has a handy feature called God Mode which enables you to have a folder where you can get to all the settings without having to browse around and click through options and folders in Control Panel.
To enable God Mode, add a new folder...
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These were taken using the full Bowens studio kit to light the item using softboxes and light the background with separate lights to give a more even light over the items.
Below are some new samples of what we can do with the rotary table we...
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After looking at various ways to show stock items in a better format for our ecommerce sites we thought it would be good to have 360 rotating images of the items.
Commercial systems to do this cost thousands and as we already have a Manfrotto...
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On the recently redesigned Virtual Swanage website we thought it would be useful to have a Twitter feed with daily events being submitted once a day from the websites event diary.
We considered manually updating the site every day and adding...
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DIY CNC Mill Controller for Stepper Motor Milling Machine
This addon to our CNC mill was made to allow manual control of the mills cnc stepper motors using a pair of 2 axis joysticks obtained from a broken radio control plane radio transmitter.
The...
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DIY Camera Laser Break Beam Trigger MK 2
A DIY optical camera flash or camera trigger using a laser and PIC Processor based timer circuit.
Following from the basic high speed photography trigger we made, we found that it was difficult to be...
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I found this video on youtube about social media very interesting
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A DIY optical camera flash or camera trigger using a laser and basic timer circuit.
I have always enjoyed trying to take water drop photos but getting the flash and camera to trigger at the right moment by hand was always very difficult.
After...
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Over the past few days we have had a large increase of virus hoax emails claiming to be a mail server upgrade or security fix.
We would never send an email with any attachments or links to files you have to download and run to any...
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From new my Mac Pro tower has had an annoying high pitched squeal or whine when moving windows or scrolling windows on the screen.
The sound is not there all the time but only after the machine has been on for a few hours so it had to be heat...
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DIY wall for Chromakey green screen recording.
After spending a lot of time trying to get good quality green screen footage for e-learning projects using cloth backgrounds, we decided to build a dedicated wall at the studio unit for green screen...
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My first app has been accepted on the apple App Store.
This iPhone application lets you check the power output of any rifle or pistol.
Enter the weight of the bullet in grams or grains and enter the bullets velocity and then click "Calculate...
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On a new website for Add Image (http://www.addimage.net/) we added a stock gallery which uses the Atom feeds from www.iStockPhoto.com which allow a user to use a data feed of their 10 latest images.
The datafeed is in Atom...
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On Wednesday evenings I will now be helping to run a new airgun club in Swanage
I have finished a new website for the club using blogengine.net and it is online at www.purbeckairgunclub.co.uk
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