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Canon EOS 50D ships in early October

September 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

The camera ships in early October, drool, drool. $1400 list. 15MP. The other cool features I had not seen before are: Vignette control which adjusts light on the edges of JPEGs and for RAWs, it notes the error correction. It does have face detection as well.

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Getting around the PDFPen transparent bug

September 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Ok, if you try to insert a JPG signature with PDFPen and make it transparent, when you save, it isn’t. One way around is to Print and then click on PDF and choose Save as PDF.

The other way is to insert the signature, choose Edit/Make Transparent and then click on Windows/Library and click +. This [...]

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Printing out a roster and signing it

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

OK, when the coaches have turned in their forms and all kids have proof of age verified, you are ready to have a signed roster. This gets sent to the coaches and the registrar job ends
Here are the mechanics:

Click on the league like 2008 Fall Rec
Click on the quick link called Find Participant
Type [...]

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Canon XT 350D Parameter settings and correct ISO settings

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve had this camera for two years now and am still finding a new thing or two. One thing to watch out for is the Parameter settings. These are like Picture Styles in the newer Canon XTi (400D) and XSi (450D)
Canon Digital Rebel XT review EOS-350D
There are 2 pre-set parameter sets with Parameter 1 [...]

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