Do I.T. Yourself

an accidental geek’s misadventures in the I.T. world

The Heralder 28 messenger bag by Vanguard – Review

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The Vanguard designers thought of everything when they designed the Heralder Series. My first impression, when I took mine out of the box, was that it was probably the most padded bag I had ever used

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The Heralder 28 messenger bag by Vanguard – Review

Written by Jim Goldstein

April 28th, 2012 at 3:25 pm

Learn iPad Week: Make your life a comic

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Photo effect apps are an ever-growing trend, and Strip Designer is the latest to take advantage of this market. Strip Designer has an impressive range of page layouts for you to choose from, including film strip-style designs and an array of grid patterns commonly seen in comics. Then you can really start to have fun by adding various speech bubbles and comic-style stickers to really make your pictures stand out.

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Learn iPad Week: Make your life a comic

Written by Jim Goldstein

April 28th, 2012 at 7:56 am

Natural Light Portraits: Photography Challenge

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To celebrate the launch of our brand new Natural Light eBook this week your photographic challenge is to take and share a portrait – lit only with natural light. Image by Sebastiano Pitruzzello Feel free to take any approach to this challenge that you want. You might like to shoot a portrait of a friend, a child, an older person or even a Self Portrait

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Written by Elizabeth Halford

April 27th, 2012 at 7:18 pm

How to Use a 10-stop ND Filter to Take Long Exposure Sunset Images

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The following tutorial was submitted in our forum by Chris Gin . I used my B+W 10-stop the other day to do some long exposures at sunset and thought I’d write up the steps I took to get the shot. Firstly for those of you who aren’t familiar with this type of filter, it’s basically a very strong neutral density (ND) filter which reduces the amount of light hitting the camera’s sensor by about 1000 times.

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Written by Darren Rowse

April 27th, 2012 at 3:28 pm

Learn iPad Week: Set up iCloud in six simple steps

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With the recent launch of iOS 5, iCloud was finally unleashed on the world, and now is the time to take advantage of its features if you own more than one

Written by udijw

April 27th, 2012 at 12:04 pm