Poster Digital Printing at its Best

Poster Digital Printing at its Best

by: Kristine Llabres

The most commonly used style in poster digital printing today are those digital posters with photographs in it. Since photographs embody life and energy, they seem to attract more customers to take into further detail in the poster later on be interested in the business that the digital poster offers. Photographs play vital role in digital posters for it may make or break the digital poster itself.

The quality of photograph prints on the digital poster will greatly depend on the materials used. The resolution of the image or photograph must be clear with appropriate light and texture. Poor picture and image prints just ruin the totality of a poster but not in the case of digital printing. Since digital printing sees to it that everything is in its appropriate level with proper coordination with everyone else.

For almost 25 years now, improvements on the photograph prints were discovered to get the highest possible photographic prints that are far more clear and precise. These kinds of prints can be achieved with the popularity of digital photographic prints. This innovation in the photographic printing is a great tool for the printing companies that print brochures, posters, banners, business cards and others that need a photograph or images to enhance the worth of the printing services.

Since it is very common now that almost everything and anything can be personalized just like by putting their pictures on it and do whatever they wanted to do with it and that is what digital printing is. Digital printing sees to it that the desires and expectations of the customers are being met with high quality satisfaction.

Poster digital printing can be adjusted with the specifications that a customer wanted it to be. With the use of digital imaging and digital printing it is handy, hasslefree and with competitive prices. It may not be of the same price as to the conventional posters but then the output of the printing is far enough from each other.

Glossy paper and good quality inks are recommended to achieve the greatest poster digital printing that you’ve been dreaming of. Designs and layouts of the elements in the poster should be in accordance with the company’s field and with bearing to the desire of the company to increase profit. None the less, all of the needed materials in making digital posters should be given importance for the effectiveness of the poster depends on each others quality and precision.

About The Author

Kristine Llabres

A devout reader of classical novels and Marxist books that boost her stand with regards her philosophies in life and a young lady who wants her life to be documented in every single detail of it. A diary and photograph addict, a young writer who wants to grow and excel in her writing career.

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This article was posted on March 31

by Kristine Llabres

What is Broadband Phone?

What is Broadband Phone?

by: Aki Majima

A broadband phone is one that makes phone calls over the Internet using the IP protocol. Several large broadband phone companies have come to the forefront in recent months offering the ability to make phone calls with a regular phone, that are routed over Internet Protocol using broadband Internet access. The most popular method of using voice over IP among the household users of this technology is connection to IP telephony via a digital adapter. This is the device that is connected between a broadband modem and a normal house phone to gain access to the broadband phone line. The digital adapter unscrambles the digital voice data that is received via the Internet and converts it to an analogue signal that can be heard and understood with regular nondigital phones.

Without a doubt, voice over IP is the future in telecommunications and long distance communication. Making phone calls over IP is much cheaper than either conventional phones or cellular communication. The technology is extremely efficient and it is very easy to implement due to the fact that it uses the infrastructure of the Internet, a communications structure that already exists.

As internet telephony and its surrounding technology become more and more refined over the coming years, so will the technology that gives us access to it. Even over the coming twelve months, we will see a change from the use of a digital adapter to convert digital data from the web into analogue. Instead, we will see an increase in the availability of digital telephones and USB phones that plug directly into a USB port and that can make and receive phone calls digitally. You will also notice other mediums produce products that will attempt to bridge the gap between old technology and new. While other companies will keep their eye on the digital future and come up with more advanced variations of voice over IP to take us into the future.

The above article is copyright 2005 by Aki Majima.

About The Author

Aki Majima is a successful author and publisher of http://www.phoneserviceexplained.com. Informing and recommending the best route to take when dealing with your phone service needs.

This article was posted on January 24

by Aki Majima

Cable vs. Satellite TV Which is Best?

Cable vs. Satellite TV Which is Best?

by: Brian Stevens

The move is on. Last year millions of Americans switched from cable TV to satellite TV.

Why? When you compare satellite TV to cable TV youกll discover the main reasons are cost, picture quality, program choices, and customer satisfaction.

Letกs check out the differences …

Cable vs. Satellite TV Fees

Cable TV fees across the country average $39.99 per month. In our area the cost for cable TV is $37.30 a month for 64 channels, plus $10.95 a month to add digital channels. Installation in one room is $39.95, plus $9.95 for each additional room.

Satellite TV fees from Dish Network are $31.99 per month for 60 channels, while DirecTV charges $41.99 per month for 115 channels. Both satellite TV providers currently offer free satellite TV equipment and free installation in up to four rooms.

Cable vs. Satellite TV Programming

Cable TV in most areas offers almost as many channels as satellite TV, and is broadcast in analog (overtheair) format. If you want to have digital picture and sound youกll have to pay an additional fee, usually $10 to $15 a month.

Satellite TV offers more channels than cable TV (more than 250 channels), and more HDTV (high definition TV) programming. All satellite TV channels are broadcast in digital format for the highest quality picture and sound.

Cable vs. Satellite TV Equipment

With cable you only need cable boxes that connect the incoming cable line to your televisions. There is usually no charge or rental fees for cable boxes, however, If you want a digital video recorder, youกll have to pay an extra fee.

With satellite TV you need a satellite TV dish and TV receivers. Both Dish Network and DirecTV offer that equipment, plus installation, for free. Dish Network will give you a DVR (digital video recording) receiver or an HDTV receiver at no charge, while DirecTV charges $49.99 for DVR receivers and $299 for HDTV receivers.

Cable and Satellite TV Reliability and Customer Satisfaction

Cable TV outages average 3% to 5% per year. J.D. Powers and Associates ranks cable companies as good to poor in customer satisfaction.

Satellite TV outages average about 1%. J.D. Power and Associates has ranked the two satellite TV providers Dish Network and DirecTV higher in customer satisfaction than any of the cable TV companies for the last five years

The Bottom Line

If you only watch a couple of shows a week, and you live in an area where you can’t get overtheair TV and cable TV costs less than $20 per month, then cable may be your best option.

If, on the other hand, you want the biggest variety of shows, movies, sports, and news for the least amount of money … you want to watch your all your shows in digital video and sound … and you want the option of watching them in HD format and recording them on a DVR receiver, then satellite TV is what you’re looking for.

About The Author

Brian Stevens is a professional freelance writer and webmaster who has written extensively on free satellite TV systems. For more information on free satellite TV systems go to: http://www.thesatellitetvguide.com

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This article was posted on August 14

by Brian Stevens

Create Your Own Digital Library

Create Your Own Digital Library

by: Jelaine Macaraeg

The moment you got your first digital camera, your view of the world has totally changed. You always seem to see something beautiful or artistic in your surroundings, worthy of being captured in pixels. You experiment quite a lot and keep on loading your pictures in your computer. Until one day, you thought of working on a project. You’re sure you have the kind of picture you need – you knew you have it somewhere in your hard disk… in one of those folders… You can’t run a search for it though because you pretty much use generic filenames like Flower1, Flower2, Flower 3 and so on. Uhoh! Looks like it’s high time for you to organize your digital photos!

Microsoft has something that can help you do that. It’s called the Microsoft Digital Image Suite 9, which actually consists of two imaging applications – MS Digital Image Library 9, which serves as your database of digital images and MS Digital Image Pro 9, which is a photo manipulation program.

A lot of people may like it’s familiar Explorerlike interface – the left pane being the folder pane, while the right side of the window is the image browser, showing thumbnails of your images.

The good thing about Digital Image Library 9 is that you wouldn’t have to transfer your photos from their current location. Instead, it scans your hard disk and locates folders it considers photo folders, afterwhich you may deselect folders that are not appropriate. The images may then be sorted according to date or keywords. From here, you may doubleclick on a photo to bring it up in a fullscreen view and use the basic controls for zoom, fit to screen, rotate and print. You may also select multiple photos for slideshow, the speed of which range from 1 second to 1 minute.

Oftentimes, pictures taken with a digital camera contains metadata. These are information about the photo, such as shutter speed and the date and time the photo was taken. Digital Image Library 9 allows you to add these metadata with captions and keywords to easily categorize and later on identify images. Another nifty feature of this application is that it even allows you to rate your photos! From the preview pane, simply click on how many stars, the highest being five, you wish to assign each photo.

If you wish to do some retouches on an image, simply click the edit button and Digital Image Pro 9 launches and opens the selected image. This application has a lot of quickfix features such as the Red Eye tool and the Smart Erase, which caters to novice retouchers and home users who don’t want anything complicated.

Being the allinone application that it is, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 9 comes with tons of mats, frames and templates for creating professional photo projects such as scrapbooks, photo albums, calendars and postcards. You may also get Microsoft Photo Story, an addon to the suite that lets you turn your photos into video. Simply choose which photos to include then add some narration if you have a microphone and add music and zooming effects.

About The Author

Jelaine Macaraeg

I like to read anything that contains words in the old English form, though I can’t understand it. You know, the King James Version of the Bible with words like thou, thy, thine, wilst, etc. The words used are different. The construction of the sentence is different, too, which makes sentences sound artistic. I also like gothic metal, a music genre, because most of the lyrics contain such words. It is not only the words that fascinate me; it’s the hidden meaning it contains. It’s like an abstract painting; you don’t get the real picture until you see through it.

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This article was posted on March 11

by Jelaine Macaraeg

Get The Most Out Of Your Digital Camera Today!

Get The Most Out Of Your Digital Camera Today!

by: Kevin Rockwell

Point and click. The new life of digital cameras gives us all the opportunity to capture images as we go. Whether you simply hit the shutter button to take pictures of your friends and family or if you want to have your camera with you at all times in order to capture the beauty of life wherever you find it, getting the most out of your digital camera can be easy.

Letกs imagine ourselves with the perfect set up of digital camera and a few accessories to make things just right. My personal and professional recommendation is that we start with memory. Get more today. If you only have one memory card for your camera it is time to add to the collection. If you have more than one then good job! The more memory you have for your digital camera the less likely it will be that you get stuck wanting to take more pictures and have no more room on the storage. Memory is relatively cheap, takes up no space in your kit and gives you total control over creativity.

Your camera comes with a variety of quality settings to work with when taking images. Don’t use TIFF, leave it on one of the medium quality level settings and your camera will take fine images for you and not eat up all your memory. If you use the highest setting you will get very few images onto your card. They will for the most part be of very high quality but you would only want to shoot at that level of quality if you are intending to make high quality large format prints of your images.

Now if that child of yours is just so incredibly cute and your wall is aching for a portrait of his or her shining face then by all means do it on the highest quality. The key will be to use good software to process the image and then a printer that can make a large format, high quality print of your image. They exist and for not unreasonable prices I might add.

I was stunned at a recent art show in my neighborhood to be looking at a photographerกs exhibit of large size prints (18×24 and up in size) to find out that he shoots exclusively in digital now. He was a former film photographer who switched over in recent years and now makes stunning prints from his digital images. His landscape images were simply amazing and to find out that he shot them on a good digital camera made me very curious about the process, but that is fodder for another article.

Juice is the answer to your next question. Always have more juice. I spent 20 years in the TV news business and my mantra was always have extra batteries ready to go and an extra tape under the back seat in case of emergency. For TV cameras the batteries were always big and heavy rechargeable NiCads. Lithium batteries are the rage nowadays as they are lighter in weight, have no memory problems, and run longer. Digital still cameras can take advantage of Lithium batteries but the cost is often slightly prohibitive for most of us. Some camera systems use proprietary battery systems. I would recommend not buying into that sort of system. Try to buy a camera that uses universal types of batteries such as AAกs. I use a camera that takes AAกs and I have three sets of rechargeable batteries so I can rotate through them and never be caught short. Total cost for three sets of batteries is about $30, and they will last you several years if you treat them right. If you just buy regular AA batteries and shoot a lot of images your battery cost might triple that over a like period of time.

Edison did it and now we consider him a genius. Experimentation is the name of the game. Digital images cost you nothing but time and a little battery life. Play around and take lots of shots of things, people, events, you name it. Look at magazines, newspapers and notice what images look cool to you. Try to take shots like that yourself so you can see how it is done. This will get you thinking about how to make your everyday shots better. Look for new and different ways to frame things, take both a vertical and a horizontal shot of the same thing and see how it changes perspective. Get closer to your subject, or get farther away to see which looks better. Find something unique about your subject and look for a way to exploit that for a better image. Here is and example, say for instance you have a great looking car you want a picture of, well don’t stand across the street from it and zoom in on the car, get right up close with the sun behind you so the car is sparkling shiny and fills the whole frame of the image. Find itกs best feature and center that in the shot say the awesome lines of front of the car or snazzy wheels.

Print something from your camera every week to remind you of the beauty of everyday things. Take shots all the time, pick one and print it out and then put it in front of you for a day or a week. Live life as though you want beauty around you all the time. If you are madly in love then surround yourself with pictures of that love. If you live in a beautiful place then take pictures of it all the time to make sure you never forget how special it is to be there in your life. Don’t let those images hide away and not be seen. Wallpaper on your computer can be another place to put your weekly image, change it regularly with images from your family, work, life, hobby and you will get more smiles and more joy out of your camera than you know what to do with. My current wallpaper takes me back to a wonderful day on a mountain lake this past summer paddling kayaks in the afternoon breeze. What about yours?

About The Author

Kevin Rockwell worked as a network TV cameraman for 20 years shooting news. Now a devoted fan of digital photography and video he works to gather information and news for digital camera users. Free reports >http://greatdigitalcameras.com/gdcj.html

This article was posted on September 14

by Kevin Rockwell

Digital Printing Press: An Update

Digital Printing Press: An Update

by: Marlon D. Ludovice

Way back in 1998, the digital printing world refined its processes and made significant production operating cost reductions, as well as introduced various new equipment and technology in printing. This revolutionary trend is expected to accelerate as the industry moves in the coming years.

Digital printing progress is being made in both the fixedimaging onpress plate making approach, as well as the directtopaper technology (plateless variable imaging) alike. The popular กI can do it better, faster and cheaper than you can,ก was the battle cry of Indigo, Xeikon, IBM, Xerox and Agfa, as the variable imaging digital color printing press pioneers intensified their maneuvering for market share. A good sign of variable digital color printingกs expanding reach into the traditional print market is the press dealerships.

The association of new models and the noticeable modifications on existing modern machineries opens a better and less expensive production performance which will provide a better service to the general customers. All moving at the direction where cost of digital variable printing has declined considerably. And a decline in cost is enlarging the market.

Xeikon one of the leading provider of hitech digital printing services recently announced strategic partnership with Varis which is expected to result in sophisticated fullcolor digital printing software becoming available early this year. Indigo has announced two new press configurations, one at each end of the cost and performance spectrum.

Today with highspeed color copiers are beginning to look more like lowend variable imaging digital printing presses. Xerox has split its DocuColor 40 copier/printer line into two basic versionsthe 40 CP and the 40PRO. The 40CP is a network connected copier/ printer equipped with a digital controlled from EFI. Itกs suitable for walkup copying as well as lowvolume network printing. The 40PRO is intended for sophisticated color document production, which emphasizes speed and color quality.

As printers look at reequipping their plants for the 21st century, difficult choices between conventional and an emerging digital press must be made. A mistake can put a firmกs survival at risk, but failure to reequip to meet client expectations will almost certainly be fatal. Knowing when to harness available pressroom technology has become printing managementกs most difficult task.

Digital press development is proceeding at an accelerating pace for both fixed image and fully variable imaging presses. Fixed image developments are being led by directtoplatemaking onpress technologies. Fullcolor, 100 percent variable capability presses are entering the production mainstream as their operating costs decline, while output quality improves and the presses become wider and faster.

About The Author

Marlon D. Ludovice

Actually I’m not fond of writing, I don’t even write at all. I am not expecting to be in this field. But nevertheless, I love to read books…almost everything interest me. Reading is my passion! And now that I am in an article writer team, writing gives me an additional thrill in myself…Before I love to read books but now I’m also in a writing stuff. I can say that I am not a good writer but I am always trying to be one.

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This article was posted on April 13

by Marlon D. Ludovice

Can It Get Any More Digital?

Can It Get Any More Digital?

by: Nash Ville

Everyone seems to be talking about digital photography because it’s fun, fast and less costly than we might think. It’s almost everywhere – in printed materials, in the news, and on the net. What makes digital photography a hit? One, digital takes the fear out of photography because it lets us take as many pictures as we want. Two, we can see right away if we got our desired image and delete the pictures we don’t like. Three, we can upload and share those pictures with our loved ones using a computer or a mobile phone anytime, anywhere. Four, digital costs less because we don’t need films and we don’t pay developing fees. Lastly, almost all people such as doctors, scientists, fire fighters, police officers, insurance agents, and real estate agents use digital photography in their work everyday.

In digital photography, Adobe Photoshop allows digital photographers, web and graphic designers to work more efficiently, explore new creative options, and produce the highest quality images for print, web and other media. Its software delivers a comprehensive toolset that helps users to meet any creative or production challenge. Its creative tools help graphic art professionals generate appealing visual effects and stay ahead of the competition. It is no doubt that it’s very significant to general users, web designers, and even, video editors.

The book, ขEnhancing Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshopข by Chris Orwig, will guide us through the workflow of getting our digital photos from our camera to a computer and then into our hands. We will learn about the basics of taking digital pictures, loading photos to our computer, and using Adobe Photoshop to adjust our images and printing and sharing our images. Truly, this is a great way for new users to get up to speed on digital photography and modify photos using this application. This full color book provides an approachable introduction to Photoshop Elements and offers tips and insights into the vital aspects of photo manipulation. The book will offer the clearest possible route to achieving great images with Photoshop Elements as illustrated with full color images.

Do you have a digital camera, a computer, a printer and an Internet connection? Then, you’re set to go digital. But remember, even with this technology, you still need the imaginative idea and the enthusiasm to be entertained. Indeed, ขEnhancing Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshopข is expected to greatly increase the digital imaging skills and creativity of professional photographers, imaging professionals, and enthusiasts. With this book, you can work through the examples or branch out with your own Photoshop ideas. From here, welcome to the brave new world of digital photography!

About The Author

Nash Ville

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This article was posted on January 24

by Nash Ville

Offsite Backups Provide Digital Peace of Mind

Offsite Backups Provide Digital Peace of Mind

by: Harald Anderson

In today’s fast paced datacentric world of personal computers and consumer/business electronics (such as PDAs and digital media players) we have, as a society, developed a reliance on digital data. We have particularly developed a dependence on data stored on various magnetic media such as hard drives, removable disks, and magnetic tape. While some computer users may never have had a problem with loss of data due to viruses, Internet worms or file corruption, most of us have at some time experienced the frustration and loss of productivity that comes with the loss of computer data.

Perhaps someone in your office deleted files off the network that your entire team had been working on for months. Or maybe the corporate firewall didn’t stop the latest Internetborne virus that has a penchant for overwriting ข.docข files with junk data. Like it or not, if you connect your computer to the Internet (and in some cases, even if you don’t), your mission critical data is at risk. The question is: What can you do about it?

An excellent solution is to employ offsite backups. Offsite backup solutions allow you to store critical data that is crucial to your business or personal computing experience. Offsite backup providers make it quick and easy for you to back up your most important files to a secure, offsite facility that offers redundant storage, and round the clock accessibility to your files in the event of a critical ขsystem meltdownข. When you use an online offsite backup provider, you can be secure in knowing that your files and important information will be available to you no matter what happens to the machines you work on every day.

Even if your computer needs to be completely formatted or your laptop is stolen you can have the peace of mind that the most important part of your computing experience — the data you generate on a day to day basis — is safe and secure and always available to you.

Your DATA is your Life. Protect it.

Copyright 2005 Harald Anderson

About The Author

Harald Anderson is a freelance writer and webmaster for http://www.SafeHarborData.com an online backup service. Download your free thirty day trial and experience the Digital Peace of Mind that accompanies a secure disaster recovery routine for your business. http://www.SafeHarborData.com

This article was posted on February 01

by Harald Anderson

An Embarrassment of Riches Part II

An Embarrassment of Riches Part II

by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

http://www.doi.org/

The DOI Foundation has unveiled the DOIEB (EB stands for ebooks) Initiative in the Book Expo America Show 2001, to, in their words:

กDetermine requirements with respect to the application of unique identifiers to eBooks

Develop proofsofconcept for the use of DOIs with eBooks

Develop technical demonstrations, possibly including a prototype eBook Registration Agency.ก

It is backed by a few major publishers, such as McGrawHill, Random House, Pearson, and Wiley.

This ostensibly modest agenda conceals a revolutionary and ambitious attempt to unambiguously identify the origin of digital content (in this case, ebooks) and link a universe of information to each and every ID number. Aware of competing efforts underway, the DOI Foundation is actively courting the likes of กindecsก (Interoperability of Data in ECommerce System) and OeBF (Open eBook). Companies ,like Enpia Systems of South Korea (a DOI Registration Agency), have already implemented a DOIcumindecs system. On November 2000, the APAกs (American Publishersก Association) Open Ebook Publishing Standards Initiative has recommended to use DOI as the primary identification system for ebooksก metadata. The MPEG (Motion Pictures Experts Group) is said to be considering DOI seriously in its efforts to come up with numbering and metadata standards for digital videos. A DOI can be expressed as a URN (Universal Resource Name IETFกs syntax for generic resources) and is compatible with OpenURL (a syntax for embedding parameters such as identifiers and metadata in links). Shortly, a กNamespace Dictionaryก is to be published. It will encompass 800 metadata elements and will tackle ebooks, journals, audio, and video. A working group was started to develop a กservices definitionก interface (i.e., to allow webenabled systems, especially ecommerce and mcommerce systems, to deploy DOI).

The DOI, in other words, is designed to be allinclusive and allpervasive. Each DOI number is made of a prefix, specific to a publisher, and a suffix, which could end up painlessly assimilating the ISBN and ISSN (or any other numbering and database) system.

Thus, a DOI can be assigned to every ebook based on its ISBN and to every part (chapter, section, or page) of every ebook. This flexibility could support Pay Per View models (such as Questiaกs or Fathomกs), POD (Print On Demand), and academic กcourse packsก, which comprise material from many textbooks, whether on digital media or downloadable. The DOI, in other words, can underlie DCMS (Digital Content Management Systems) and Electronic Catalogue ID Management Systems.

Moreover, the DOI is a paradigm shift (though, conceptually, it was preceded by the likes of the UPC code and the ISOกs HyTime multimedia standard). It blurs the borders between types of digital content. Imagine an enovel with the video version of the novel, the sound track, still photographs, a tourist guide, an audio book, and other digital content embedded in it. Each content type and each segment of each content type can be identified and tagged separately and, thus, sold separately yet all under the umbrella of the same DOI! The nightmare of DRM (digital rights management) may be finally over.

But the DOI is much more than a sophisticated tagging technology. It comes with multiple resolution (see กEmbarrassment of Riches Part Iก). In other words, as opposed to the URL (Universal Resource Locator) it is generated dynamically, กon the flyก, by the user, and is not กhard codedก into the web page. This is because the DOI identifies content not its location. And while the URL resolves to a single web page the DOI resolves to a lot more in the form of publishercontrolled (ONIXXML) กmetadataก in a popup (Javascript or other) screen. The metadata include everything from the authorกs name through the bookกs title, edition, blurbs, sample chapters, other promotional material, links to related products, a rights and permissions profile, email contacts, and active links to retailersก web pages. Thus, every bookrelated web page becomes a full fledged book retailing gateway. The กanchor documentก (in which the DOI is embedded) remains uncluttered. ONIX 2.0 may contain standard metadata fields and extensions specific to epublishing and ebooks.

This latter feature the ability to link to the systems of retailers, distributors, and other types of vendors is the กbarcodeก function of the DOI. Like barcode technology, it helps to automate the supply chain, and update the inventory, ordering, billing and invoicing, accounting, and reordering databases and functions. Besides tracking content use and distribution, the DOI allows to seamlessly integrate hitherto disparate ecommerce technologies and facilitate interoperability among DRM systems.

The resolution itself can take place in the clientกs browser (using a software plugin), in a proxy server, or in a central, dynamic server. Resolving from the clientกs PC, ebook reader, or PDA has the advantage of being able to respond to the userกs specific condition (location, time of day, etc.). No plugin is required when a proxy server HTTP is used but then the DOI becomes just another URL, embedded in the page when it is created and not resolved when the user clicks on it. The most userfriendly solution is, probably, for a central server to look up values in response to a userกs prompt and serve her with cascading menus or links. Admittedly, in this option, the resolution tables (what DOI links to what URLกs and to what content) is not really dynamic. It changes only with every server update and is static between updates. But this is a minor inconvenience. As it is, users are likely to respond with some trepidation to the need to install plugins and to the avalanche of information their single, innocuous, mouse click generates.

The DOI Foundation has compiled this impressive list of benefits and beneficiaries:

กPublishers to enable cross referencing to related information, control over metadata, viral distribution and sales, easy access to content, sale of granular content

Consumers to increase value for time and money, and purchase options

Distributors to facilitate sale and distribution of materials as well as user needs

Retailers to build related materials on their sites, heighten consumer usability and copyright protection

Conversion Houses/Wholesaler Repositories to increase access to and use of metadata

DRM Vendors/Rights Clearing Houses to enable interoperability and use of standards

Data Aggregators to enable compilation of primary and secondary content and print on demand

Trade Associations facilitate dialog on social level and attend to legal and technical perspectives pertaining to multiple versions of electronic content

eBbook software Developers to enable management of personal collections of eBooks including purchase receipt information as reference for quick return to retailer

Content Management System Vendors to enable internal synching with external usage

Syndicators to drive sales to retailers, add value to retail online store/sales, and increase sales for publishersก

The DOI is assigned to publishers by Registration Agencies (of which there are currently three CrossRef and Content Directions in the States and the aforementioned Enpia Systems in Asia). It is already widely used to cross reference almost 5,000 periodicals with a database of 3,000,000 citations. The price is steep it costs a publisher $200 to get a prefix and submit DOIกs to the registry. But as Registration Agencies proliferate, competition is bound to slash these prices precipitously.

About The Author

Sam Vaknin is the author of กMalignant Self Love Narcissism Revisitedก and กAfter the Rain How the West Lost the Eastก. He is a columnist in กCentral Europe Reviewก, United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com

This article was posted on February 2, 2002

by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

Photo Plus 2005

Photo Plus 2005

by: The Digital Room Moderator

The Photo Plus Expo 2005 is sure to draw digital enthusiasts as once again new products are showcased and innovative technologies are demonstrated. This is an ideal venue for seasoned professionals and amateurs as well to discover new breakthroughs and ideas that will prove indispensable in their craft. Also, more than 100 photography and design seminars and handson workshops taught by worldrenowned experts with a focus on cuttingedge innovations in digital imaging products and techniques. You will learn new techniques and solutions while being inspired by the Masters of Photography.

What’s in Store?

Preview the products that will keep your vision and skills ahead of the curve.

Gain inspiration and knowledge from the greatest photographers and imaging experts by networking or attending our seminar series.

Get upclose and handson with thousands of products and solutions and make purchases directly from dealers on the Expo floor.

Visit with over 200 manufacturers and suppliers of photographic capture, storage, output and display equipment, services and more.

Discover the Expo floor photography galleries.

Connect with colleagues and the best in the industry at networking events… And so much more

The Expo will be held at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York from October 2022. An advanced reservation would be advantageous since there is a limited number of space available for the participants.

Take advantage of this exciting program and learn all there is to know about new progressive technologies.

About The Author

For Comments and Questions about the article please contact the Digital room Moderator at 888 888 4211 or visit http://www.digitalroom.com.

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This article was posted on January 18

by The Digital Room Moderator

7 Tips for Shooting Great Digital Photos

7 Tips for Shooting Great Digital Photos

by: Gary Hendricks

Do you have trouble shooting good digital photos? Perhaps youกve been taking digital photos for some time, but never really got the beautiful shots you wanted. Maybe you somehow messed up the photos you took of important events, like your daughterกs birthday or your trip to Paris.

How do you begin to take good photos? Well, the first thing to remember is this: Itกs the photographer that takes great photos, not the camera. Think about that for a minute. Itกs true isn’t it? Iกve seen some people take great photos with a simple pointandshoot camera, while some take lousy shots with the most expensive SLR.

Fret not! Read these tips on shooting digital photos and apply them the next time you have a chance. Before long, youกll be shooting photos like a pro!

1. Know Your Camera

Does this sound familiar? You buy the latest digital camera out there, come home, rip off the box, then proceed to fiddle with the device. You briefly flick through the hundred page camera manual and then never look at it again. Not a good idea! If you buy a digital camera, you owe it to yourself to understand its ins and outs. Learn how to control exposure, how to use different camera modes and how to use the flash. The knowledge you gain about the camera will be invaluable when you’re out in the field taking those special photos.

2. Learn to Control the Flash

One of the most important things you need to know about digital photography is to control the flash. Personally, I hate to rely on the automatic flash that comes with the digital camera. Depending on the situation, you need to switch off or switch on the flash.

For example, when taking outdoor photos, it is sometimes good to turn on the flash to illuminate the subject, especially if he or she is in the shade. On the other hand, you can also choose to turn off the flash when taking indoor shots. Sometimes, using the flash indoors will result in unnatural skin color and harsh glare in your photos.

3. Play with the Macro Mode

Almost all digital camera these days have a macro mode. This setting is ideal for taking close up shots of objects like flowers or insects. On my Canon PowerShot S500, itกs represented by a flower symbol. What you do is to pick a subject, turn on macro mode, then get as close to it as your camera will allow. Make sure you allow the camera to focus properly before depressing the shutter button fully.

4. Hold the Camera Level

A basic rule of photography is to hold the camera level. Since most digital cameras come with a LCD, you can use it to properly frame your shots. Next time you’re taking a shot, try to look for the horizontal lines and use them as guides. A good example is to make use of the horizon when you’re taking a photo of a sunset.

5. Use The Tripod

I recommend this tip to all budding photographers camera tripods are an essential tool in your photography arsenal. When will you need a tripod? Well, itกs useful if you’re taking shots under lowlight conditions or trying to capture fast moving objects. I like to use a tripod when taking night shots city streets, for example. Always try to look for a tripod thatกs convenient to carry around. For personal use, you don’t need a huge one just a simple compact one thatกs easy to pack.

6. Play with the ISO Setting

I find the ISO setting in digital cameras very useful. The ISO setting of a essentially camera controls itกs sensitivity to light. If you’re taking a photo of a still object, like a flower, then always use a low ISO setting. It allows for a longer shutter speed and produces a cleaner image. If you’re shooting a moving object, like a baby playing with a toy, then a higher ISO setting of say 400 would be better. Do take note, however, that a higher ISO setting gives a faster shutter speed and requires less light. This will produce noiser photos.

7. Have Enough Memory Capacity

Just like you must have enough rolls of film when using traditional cameras, make sure you always have enough memory capacity in your digital camera. Itกs terrible to be on a holiday taking great photos and suddenly realizing youกve no memory space left. Here are some general guidelines for digital camera storage.

2 megapixel cameras get at least a 64MB card

3 megapixel camera get at least a 128MB card

4 megapixel camera get at least a 256MB card

5 megapixel camera and above get at least a 512MB or 1GB card

Conclusion

Whew. A pretty long article. I hope Iกve managed to give you some good tips on shooting great digital photos. Always remember what I said while the latest and greatest digital cameras have amazing features, you still need a skilled photographer to take nice pictures. Apply the above tips to your everyday shooting and learn to be a better photographer.

About The Author

Gary Hendricks runs a hobby site on digital photography. Visit his website at http://www.basicdigitalphotography.com for tips and tricks on buying digital cameras, as well as shooting great photos.

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This article was posted on February 09

by Gary Hendricks

The Medium and the Message

The Medium and the Message

by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.

A debate is raging in epublishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) or should it be distributed freely and thus serve as a form of viral marketing (Seth Godinกs กideavirusก)? Publishers fear that freely distributed and costfree กcrackedก ebooks will cannibalize print books to oblivion.

The more paranoid point at the music industry. It failed to coopt the emerging peertopeer platforms (Napster) and to offer a viable digital assets management system with an equitable sharing of royalties. The results? A protracted legal battle and piracy run amok. กPublishersก goes this creed กare positioned to incorporate encryption and protection measures at the very inception of the digital publishing industry. They ought to learn the lesson.ก

But this view ignores a vital difference between sound and text. In music, what matter are the song or the musical piece. The medium (or carrier, or packing) is marginal and interchangeable. A CD, an audio cassette, or an MP3 player are all fine, as far as the consumer is concerned. The listener bases his or her purchasing decisions on sound quality and the faithfulness of reproduction of the listening experience (for instance, in a concert hall). This is a very narrow, rational, measurable and quantifiable criterion.

Not so with text.

Content is only one element of many of equal footing underlying the decision to purchase a specific textกcarrierก (medium). Various media encapsulating IDENTICAL text will still fare differently. Hence the failure of CDROMs and elearning. People tend to consume content in other formats or media, even if it is fully available to them or even owned by them in one specific medium. People prefer to pay to listen to live lectures rather than read freely available online transcripts. Libraries buy print journals even when they have subscribed to the full text online versions of the very same publications. And consumers overwhelmingly prefer to purchase books in print rather than their eversions.

This is partly a question of the slow demise of old habits. Ebooks have yet to develop the userfriendliness, platformindependence, portability, brows ability and many other attributes of this ingenious medium, the Gutenberg tome. But it also has to do with marketing psychology. Where text (or text equivalents, such as speech) is concerned, the medium is at least as important as the message. And this will hold true even when ebooks catch up with their print brethren technologically.

There is no doubting that finally ebooks will surpass print books as a medium and offer numerous options: hyperlinks within the ebook and without it to web content, reference works, etc., embedded instant shopping and ordering links, divergent, userinteractive, decision driven plotlines, interaction with other ebooks (using Bluetooth or another wireless standard), collaborative authoring, gaming and community activities, automatically or periodically updated content, ,multimedia capabilities, database, Favourites and History Maintenance (records of reading habits, shopping habits, interaction with other readers, plot related decisions and much more), automatic and embedded audio conversion and translation capabilities, full wireless piconetworking and scatternetworking capabilities and more.

The same textual content will be available in the future in various media. Ostensibly, consumers should gravitate to the featurerich and much cheaper ebook. But they won’t because the medium is as important as the text message. It is not enough to own the same content, or to gain access to the same message. Ownership of the right medium does count. Print books offer connectivity within an historical context (tradition). Ebooks are cold and impersonal, alienated and detached. The printed word offers permanence. Digital text is ephemeral (as anyone whose writings perished in the recent dot.com bloodbath or Deja takeover by Google can attest). Printed volumes are a whole sensorium, a sensual experience olfactory and tactile and visual. Ebooks are one dimensional in comparison. These are differences that cannot be overcome, not even with the advent of digital กinkก on digital กpaperก. They will keep the print book alive and publishersก revenues flowing.

People buy printed matter not merely because of its content. If this were true ebooks will have won the day. Print books are a packaged experience, the substance of life. People buy the medium as often and as much as they buy the message it encapsulates. It is impossible to compete with this mistique. Safe in this knowledge, publishers should let go and impose on ebooks กencryptionก and กprotectionก levels as rigorous as they do on the their print books. The latter are here to stay alongside the former. With the proper pricing and a modicum of trust, ebooks may even end up promoting the old and trusted print versions.

About The Author

Sam Vaknin is the author of กMalignant Self Love Narcissism Revisitedก and กAfter the Rain How the West Lost the Eastก. He is a columnist in กCentral Europe Reviewก, United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com

This article was posted on February 2, 2002

by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.