http://techbutter.com Would you eat your toast without butter? Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:48:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been seeing a lot of articles lately about high dynamic range (HDR) photography. I've always been fascinated by it. I read through a couple of blog entries and decided that I should try it myself. In the past I have said that I couldn't do things like HDR ... http://techbutter.com/2008/06/02/high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography/ A couple of weeks ago my DVD burner decided to kick the bucket. I was wanting to download Fedora 8 and burn it to a DVD so I could install it onto my computer. Unfortunately, that wasn't going to happen. Anyways. I decided that I would seek out a website ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/30/discountlinuxdvdcom/ Ever since I got this iBook G3 I've been primarily using it for communication (email, instant messaging) and multimedia (audio podcasts and my music collection). Unfortunately, the iBook doesn't have a great deal of power since it is running Tiger which is a bit more resource intensive than OS 9 ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/30/mailplane-for-gmail/ Before you begin reading this entry if you would like to watch a video of what I discuss below then scroll to the bottom of this post and download the video or watch it via Vimeo. For a while now I have been using the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/12/basic-photo-enhancements-with-the-gimp/ A couple of weeks ago my younger brother asked me to buy some songs for him from the iTunes store. So I thought this would be no big deal. Normally I buy, download and burn the songs to a CD and also put them onto his iPod shuffle for him. ... http://techbutter.com/2007/11/01/when-drm-sucks/ The Reason For Purchasing A couple of years ago I had a no-contract cell phone and before then I had a pre-paid cell phone. I got rid of those in 2005. They were simply too expensive. Ever since then I've been using Skype, Gizmo or just using the house land-line to ... http://techbutter.com/2007/10/21/smc-wifi-phone-for-skype-wskp100/ If you recall from the Taco HTML article I wrote back in June, I mentioned that my 3 year old Envision LCD (Envision EN7100) decided to kick the bucket. Ever since then, up until the 5th of October (earlier this month, for me) I had been using my backup CRT ... http://techbutter.com/2007/10/13/viewsonic-optiquest-q20wb/ A couple of weeks ago I was trying to get a design out so a client could review it and let us know if they wanted us to keep working on the design. Fortunately they did! I was struggling to try and figure out how I could have pages with ... http://techbutter.com/2007/09/22/wordpress-page-templates/ I wish people would stop using Flash for their entire website design. First of all, Flash slows my computer down to the point where I have to force my browser to close just so I can start browsing the Internet again. I lose the tabs I had open and that ... http://techbutter.com/2007/09/22/flash-a-little-dab-will-do-ya/ A month or so ago I was getting ready to call someone on Skype. For some reason I had my Logitech USB headset unplugged. I plugged it in and the volume was extremely loud. Everytime you would go into the volume control (in Windows) and bring the volume down it ... http://techbutter.com/2007/08/29/logitech-premium-stereo-headset/