http://www.asksomegeeks.com Regarding All Things Geeky Sat, 31 May 2008 18:42:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While a lot of people think that the Loch Ness Monster might be some sort of eel, long necked seal, invertebrate, or perhaps just some debris in the lake such as a log, many people believe it is an evolved plesiosaur. These dinosaurs were carnivorous aquatic reptiles with the ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/loch-ness-myth-the-monster-nessie One of the most exciting things about digital photography is not the camera itself, but what you can do with the photo after the fact using various software programs such as Photoshop. I like to take multiple images and merge them together forming a composite image. You can add ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/how-to-create-a-composite-image-from-many-photographs I was the IT Director for a chain of portrait studios. Each store had 8-10 computers and a server that housed all of the pictures. Each computer ran Express Digital to proof the customer and a point of sale system that I wrote specifically for that company. We opened new ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/which-computer-brand-to-buy One of my favorite hobbies is nature photography because I love being out in the wilderness capturing unique moments in time that may never been seen exactly that same way again. It's a fun hobby that isn't too expensive to get started in, but the price tag can get ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/tips-for-nature-photographers I bought a laptop today. It's a Dell Inspiron 1520 with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz processor, 3GB of memory, 1680x1050 15.4 inch screen, 250GB hard drive, a webcam (that I'll probably never use), and X3100 integrated video card for $950. The only thing I wish was better ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/new-dell-laptop I wrote an article today on my nature photography blog about backing up photographs, and I think the article applies here as well. Instead of just photographs though, the same concepts could be applied for any important files especially the information about Symantec Ghost. If you're not regularly ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/backing-up-your-important-files Recently, I redesigned my photography community website, The Lens Flare, and everything has been positive so far except for one thing. The pages viewed per visit has dropped in half. I suspected that the problem had to do with the navigation. I wanted to test a few things out to ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/mvt-google-optimizer The first is Google's "PageRank", which is a number from 1-10 that is displayed in Google's browser toolbar. My photography site, The Lens Flare, bounces between a 4-5 on the homepage. PageRank is a measure of links across the web that point to a particular webpage (assuming that the ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/metrics-to-gauge-a-sites-worth Xcart is a fairly popular e-commerce shopping cart program, and one of the add-on modules that you can buy from a third party company is called CDSEO. This rewrites all of the links to be SEF using a folder-style syntax instead of the regular ?variable=value syntax. However, it causes some ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/xcart-41-and-cdseo-module-creates-bugs-in-the-review-module I recently redesigned my photography website, The Lens Flare. I had Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 installed, and thus wrote the site to make it work with those browsers. Once I had it working on those 2 browsers, I tried it on IE6 and the template was ... http://www.asksomegeeks.com/2008/making-css-layouts-work-in-the-3-main-browsers-ie6-ie7-and-firefox-2