Tag: photos

  • Does Plaxo flood your inbox with connection requests?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Plaxo started life as a place to hold your contact information online. That was quite handy and they allowed synchronising from your Mac or PC so your contact data were always held safe in the cloud. More recently Plaxo added a feature called Pulse. Pulse allows you to tell it where you publish photos, blog…

  • Free downloadable wallpaper files

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    Tom Raftery
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    Tired of looking at the same old desktop on your computer? There’s a free gallery of very nice downloadable wallpapers for Windows Vista available here. The photos are from a blogger and prolific Flickr user called Brajeshwar and as well as individual photos, you can also download a .zip wallpaper pack. I’m not quite sure…

  • External storage options

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    Tom Raftery
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    My main computer is my laptop – it is a desktop replacement. The biggest issue with this is that laptop hard drives are, by definition, small 🙁 On my laptop I have all my music, all my photos and all my email going back to 1997! The laptop has a 120gb hard drive, but I…

  • Camera cleaning advice needed

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have a Canon digital SLR camera (eos 350d) and recently I realised there is dirt somewhere inside it. Some of the photos have dirt on them and when I look through the view finder I can see stuff that shouldn’t be there. The dirt is not on the lenses as it remains when I…