Off-Camera Flash Photography Tips – Where to Mount the Flash
August 11, 2008
This article is a continuation of the previously discussed how to trigger your flash article. Once you have your flash and are able to trigger it remotely, now you have to figure out where to put the darn thing! This is a great question and you have many different options here. The method you choose will depend on the type of photography you’re wanting to pursue…oh, and how fat your wallet is.
Email Headers Not Printing in Outlook
August 8, 2008
I recently experienced a curious problem with printing emails. It seems that if you are running Outlook Express, Outlook XP (2002), or Outlook 2003, trouble may arise when you upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.
I can’t say that it happens every time and I don’t really know what causes the issue, but the right combination of Outlook and Internet Explorer 7 can cause the headers to not appear on printed emails.
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Why the Sound of Music Sucks Today – Part 1
August 7, 2008
We’d like to welcome Aaron Gant as our very first Guest Geek on GeekInspired.com. Aaron is a professional recording engineer and music producer.
Anyone over the age of 30 has been thinking the same thing: Why does this new CD sound like crap when my old copy of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” still sounds great? Shouldn’t new music sound better?
There are many reasons for the change in audio quality over the last few years but I’ve got a few of my favorites I’ve been wanting to vent about for awhile now.
Getting Started in Graphic Design: Part 1
August 6, 2008
Design is all around us. The shapes, the lines, the colors; the concepts we are exposed to everyday whether consciously or subliminally. Design is about communication; forming a bond between the audience and the design medium and getting the message across.
While there are endless ways to get the message across, there are a few basic rules that every designer should know. While all rules are made to be broken, it’s best to show that you know the rules and understand them, so that when you break the rules you can do so intentionally and for the benefit of the design. Also, design is art, and the old belief still holds true that those who know nothing about art make art about nothing.
HTML Basics – Tags for Beginners
August 4, 2008
While I was writing our Money Blogs articles over the past few weeks, I mentioned that people who are interested in making money with content should be comfortable with using HMTL. Then I noticed that we don’t have any articles that cover HTML Basics! So, that’s what this post is all about: Basic HTML tags that every beginner should know.
Before we dive into the details, let’s take a brief look at just what HTML is meant to do. HTML (hypertext markup language) is simply a means of marking up a text file so that it can be rendered into a web page by a web browser. You could create a web page (any web page) in a plain ‘ole text editor (like Notepad or Wordpad) if you wanted to. In fact, I’d say doing just that would be an excellent exercise. But, my point is that there’s nothing special about web pages. Ideally, if you were to strip out all of the special HTML tags that markup a web page, you should be left with a perfectly readable text document (this is the content I keep talking about!).
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Lightroom 2 – Better External Hard Drive Support
August 1, 2008
The release of Adobe Lightroom 2 is packed with tons of useful new features and capabilities. One note-worthy addition is the extended support for external hard drives.
If you’re like me, you probably have at least one external hard drive used as a back-up device or for additional photo storage. In Lightroom 1, all imported photos were visually clumped together in a often-confusing folder list. Version 2 of Lightroom gives us a much more meaningful and informative view of our photo folders and attached devices.
