Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Get FULL RSS Feed from partial RSS Feed Address

I love RSS feed, especially when I can read the feed news while traveling via downloading it offline to a RSS reader. Although mobile broadband connection is very common nowadays, download it offline can help save plenty of battery power!

However, some of these feeds which you are really interested in only shows 1st few lines of the content...

Solution is here... Thanks to http://www.wizardrss.com/. Just simply enter your rss address and it will translate and fetch you the FULL rss content, then just copy the newly created rss link into your rss reader or online rss reader. :)

Note: Not all RSS sites can be magically transformed to FULL RSS feed, but many can, just try. :)

Updated: 8 March 2014
This seems to be a better site for converting partial content RSS to full content RSS:
http://fulltextrssfeed.com

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Learn about Basics of Photography

Since most people have a digital camera or a camera phone, but many do not really know how the basics in shooting a reasonably good photo. Study the manual, if any, before heading out to take any shots. :)

The very 1st tip and simple tip is I would like to share is:

Scenario:
For camera with auto-focus mode, many will just aim and shoot by pressing the shutter (shoot) button all the way down before the camera can do its auto-focusing. By doing so, the image taken may be blur at times.

Solution:
Always aim at your subject and half press your shutter (shoot) button, get the camera focus on the subject (there should be an indicator or a beep sound), before doing a full press down. :)

I find the below site provide very useful and interactive tutorials, though it is for DSLR, many tips can be applied to other cameras as well.

To learn more

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Combine Photos for Printing


Very easy to use especially when you want to print multiple images, say 4R photo.

To prepare the combination of 4R photos, once you are in the software:
1) Click on "Page" at the top
2) On the right panel, on the "Size" there is an icon by the right side. When mouse over it shows "Assign the size", click it and choose "Assign paper Size".
3) Key in Width = 2730, Height = 1820 for 4R, then OK.
4) Zoom out using the zoom bar at the bottom. Select your suitable layout from the right panel and start dragging the photos from left panel to the respective frames. :)

Bonus: To add Text, after finishing your layout, use the "Edit" button on the right panel. Click Object from the bottom panel and add your text.

Play around with the features. Personally I think it is very easy to use and very helpful. :)