What is “Digital Crop Factor”?

Sep 24, 2011 Photography, Tutorials
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On Digital SLR’s, when mounted with a lens of given focal length, you would have noticed a considerable change in the Field Of View, when compared to a film camera. This is nothing but the “Crop Factor”. The field of view (also field of vision, abbreviated FOV) is the (angular or linear or areal) extent [...]

How many Megapixels? – Megapixel Multiplier Rule

Sep 24, 2011 Photography, Tutorials
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When you are out to buy a Digital Camera (a point and shoot or an SLR: Single Lens Reflex) It’s normal that the salesman will do his usual up-sell. They would make you believe that if your camera has more megapixels then that’s the one for you. Well, they are just doing their job and [...]

How to create an “Add me to Facebook” link?

Mar 27, 2011 Technology, Tutorials
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When “facebook” and “twitter” took over our social lives where we spend more time online “socializing” as opposed to real life socializing there comes a time when you need to make that extra effort to make more friends in the cloud. For that — you need a slick facebook and twitter icons on your website [...]

Anatomical 18% gray card

Oct 04, 2006 Photography, Tutorials
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Any SLR user (advanced) who shoots in M mode must have surely come across the term “18% gray”. So what exactly is this 18% gray and how does it affect exposure? Mostly all cameras have an in-built light meter, which are calibrated for 18% gray i.e. the reference point for a camera’s light-meter to determine [...]

Avoiding Camera Shake

Oct 03, 2006 Photography, Tutorials
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If you are an ardent shooter using a SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera then am sure you would have experienced some shots with camera shake, even though it’s not dark. You would experience this quite often if you shooting in M (manual) mode. Well there is a reason behind this and this is often referred [...]

Validating your CSS

Oct 02, 2006 CSS, Technology
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Some Web designers regard a Web page that validates under both HTML and CSS guidelines as the Holy Grail. I prefer to think of validation as an extremely useful tool, but not a religion. CSS validation, however, is suited perfectly for debugging your code. CSS validators can catch those unclosed curly braces and other typos [...]

How do I make a submit button look like text?

Oct 01, 2006 CSS, Technology
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Styling Hyperlinks: Change colors on mouseover

Oct 01, 2006 CSS, Technology
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Styling hyperlinks could be used effectively to replace the old style navigation buttons.To create this effect we style the :hover and :active pseudo-classes of the anchor tag. Am gonna define style separatley one for the :link and :visited styles and other for :hover and :active Personally I like the hyperlinks to appear in a contrasting [...]

How do I display a list horizontally?

Sep 30, 2006 CSS, Technology
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you can use the display property set to inline on the list item. you can use the following line into your .css file to display list items horizontally 1 ul li { display: inline;}

How do I use an Image for a list item?

Sep 30, 2006 CSS, Technology
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You can use the list-style-image property instead of list-style-type for your bullets. This property accepts a URL, which incorporates the path to your image file as a value. ul { list-style-image: url(bullet.gif) }