November 8, 2009 – 7:16 pm
Most scanning software will allow you to do all of this using “auto” settings, but that is quite boring and I prefer to do things “manually” as it gives a greater level of control over the final result.
The first step is to scan the negative.
Most people will select “scan as a negative” as that is [...]
November 1, 2009 – 10:29 am
Laptops these days seem to mainly have glossy shiny screens, unlike the original laptops of a few years ago which were mainly matt.
The trouble with glossy screens is that smears & smudges seem to be far more obvious and annoying.
Cleaning a glossy screen and ending up without any smudges is not that easy, but by [...]
September 16, 2009 – 8:34 pm
This film certainly gives some interesting colours.
The slides look very red as shown here and when the colours are “inverted” to produce a positive image the result is a nice green shade!
Click this link to see the final result once the red negative is “inverted” to form a green “positive” image
August 15, 2009 – 10:24 am
here is a link to the image after the colours have been inverted in GIMP to turn a negative into a positive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boliston/3822196687/
It’s now about 7 months since I got rid of winXP from my laptop and I thought I’d never need windows again.
I have just brought a new scanner, the Epson 4490 which is supposed to be Ubuntu compatible, but setting it up has proved to be less than straightforward so I have decided to add [...]
March 15, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Yesterday the friendly sky installer turned up to install a Sky HD box which has a lot of benefits such as HD (obviously!) and being able to record one channel whilst watching another one.
What he did not mention however was the effect that it would have on my broadband connection (ADSL).
When the box was ordered [...]
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February 22, 2009 – 9:17 pm
This is quite an intresting “Swan” sculpture that seems to have recently appeared at the Turf Locks, just next to the Turf Hotel.
This hotel is really a pub, but a very good pub which has the advantage of only allowing access via foot or bicycle. The nearest main car park is about 2 miles walk [...]
February 22, 2009 – 12:28 am
From my previous post you will see that I have tried using Skype for VOIP phone calls but I got a bit fed up with Skype for a number of reasons so I have now unsubscribed from it.
Skype is probabaly one of the best known names that people associate with VOIP but I’m not so [...]
January 29, 2009 – 10:30 pm
I have reinstalled Xubuntu from the Xubuntu iso and it seems to be working fine.
The thing that bugged me the most though was that the touchpad on my vaio laptop was set up for “tapping” by default.
Tapping is something that people either love or hate, and I am in the latter category.
Gnome seems to have [...]
January 19, 2009 – 10:34 pm
I have been trying to get Skype set up on my Vaio Laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 and I thought it would be straightforward. I was a bit worried that the Skype download page offered Ubuntu 7.04-8.04 as I’m on 8.10!
Luckily this did not seem to matter as the “.deb” file seemed to install fine [...]
