Photography: Getting reasonable results on a budget Find out what we think of the Minolta Dimage digital cameras, and the analogue cameras we still use. (more)
Swindells Family Photos (more)
This was kindly supplied by CJ Roberts. CJR understood the photo to show Eliza (Conn) Bacon, her son Robert David, and one of Robert's sons and his child. The resemblance between the standing young man and our known CE Bacon is so strong that ... (more)
You can use the GIMP image manipulation program (with some dexterity and a lot of staring) to remove the background from a photo. The best guide I've found is at photo-info.co.nz, which shows the process in six easy steps. Removing Image ... (more)
Plomesgate 2-up John Swindells + Dave Cooper rounding some blind junction. Riding tandem... There's nothing like a tandem for a bit of speed! Here are Andy and John on their way to a lightning 19:23 over 10 miles. Here are John ... (more)
The best place to go for camera reviews is dpreview.com. It's for the US market, so all the camera prices are in US dollars, but the reviewed models are identical to those available in Europe. Its categorised search function is very useful ... (more)
DataDoctor.org offers a file recovery program to recover lost files from a memory card. It offers a free trial download of its Memory card data recovery Software, but doesn't state what doesn't work compared to the paid version. On running ... (more)
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Mountain-biking and Cross-Country madness. (more)
It was once accepted that only websites handling financial data (such as customer credit card details) would need to implement security and get the padlock in the visitor's address bar - but not any longer. The padlock indicates that the ... (more)