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Photography

Digital Focus: Scale Pictures for Framing

Printing tweaks that make photos fit any frame.

Dave Johnson

Ever tried to bang a square peg into a round hole? Not a problem, as long as the peg is smaller than the hole. Printing digital images is pretty much the same story. You can make a print that's more or less 8 by 10 inches, but when it comes to framing the little guy, you often have to print it a bit too small--and claim you meant it to look that way--or print it too big and cut it down to size by hand with a paper cutter. There has to be a better way.

Thankfully, there is now. The newest version of Paint Shop Pro makes it easy to crop images to a specific size. This long-overdue feature is ideal for mounting or framing your prints--all image editors should adopt it. Don't have Paint Shop Pro 8? Later in this article I'll show how to do the same thing with an inexpensive image utility. [To read more click here]

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3/4/04 Let the news come to you

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Virus & Hoax

3/4/04

New worm moves at near-record speed
Did your PC beep at you this morning? Blame a new variant of the Netsky worm, which started spreading very quickly on Monday, hitting companies just hours after five new variants of the Bagle worm were released into the wild over the weekend. Two versions of the Bagle may prove particularly troublsome: Sent inside encrypted Zip files attached to e-mails, Bagle.F and Bagle.G have been designed to slip past most enterprise antivirus gateways. Both Netsky and Bagle are rated a 6 on the CNET/ZDNet Virus Meter.
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FUTURAMA

Extending Moore’s Law

Pat Gelsinger has spent most of his professional life at Intel. He has led the Desktop Products Group, Intel ProShare video conferencing and Internet communications product development, and was involved in birthing various generations of Intel processors. Today, Gelsinger is a senior vice president and chief technology officer of Intel. He leads Intel Labs and Intel Research, with an eye toward making sure that Intel continues to push Moore’s Law and dominate markets with its products. Even Intel is not immune to disruptive technologies that can alter the landscape, and under Gelsinger’s direction the company is spending billions of dollars annually to stay ahead of the curve. In a Face to Face interview with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber, Gelsinger outlines the major areas of investigation and technology innovation that Intel is pursuing. [to read more click here]

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26 CyberSeniors attended the Feb. 24 meeting, which was devoted to a review of email handling techniques. Facilitated by Peter Burch, the discussion focused on the Outlook and Outlook Express email programs. Topics included:

• Receiving emails, including the use of the Preview Pane and how to customize the toolbar icons.
• Sending emails, including the use of the Blind Carbon Copy box and how to adjust font characteristics such as size and color.
• Email attachments, including how to send multiple attachments and the size limitations of attachments.
• Use of an Address Book, including how to form an email Group, allowing for sending batch emails to multiple recipients with a single keystroke.
• Creation of new folders to store emails, including how to drag or copy email files from one folder to another.
• Sorting emails by date or by sender.

The remainder of this presentation will be given at the next CyberSeniors meeting on March 10.