OT: unexpected early prezzie

Aren't friends like that nice! I'm using a pre-loved flat monitor donated along the same lines.

When I upgraded my digital camera I gave the older, still working Nikon to my grandson, including three flash cards and two batteries. Since it is exactly like the one my DD uses, they now have a nice stockpile of accessories.

Beverly

That's a great gift! You will enjoy it. Emily

For best battery performance - (on digital cameras that don't have their own Lithium battery) use Nickle-Metal-Hydride rechargable batteries. Use only the Nickle-Metal-Hydride charger - a Ni-Cad charger will fry these batteries ! Regular alkaline batteries will work OK, in a pinch, but will not last nearly as long. Here's a web site for info & in-depth reviews

Your Canon A75 review is still there. A good photo comes from a steady hand ; good light ; and practice ... more than any technical features in the camera. With digital photography you can take 100 pictures to get 1 keeper - the other 99 cost nothing ... unlike film. John T

That is so cool! If you haven't had a digital camera before, you're going to love this! If you have, you'll love it anyway. ;-) I have an old copy of Paint Shop Pro that I use to edit my photos. There's also

for a free program that you can use to do a limited amount of editing - quick and easy. If you don't have space with your ISP for photos, web pages, etc., there are sites like that provide free space for photos and albums to share with family and friends.

It really is fun to get an unexpected gift. He is a nice guy,quiet, good sense of humor, and has always been around when we needed someone in an emergency. We should be giving him gifts in stead of the other way around. Juno

That was very nice, grandchildren really appreciate things like that. Juno

Emily Bengston wrote

I've been enjoying just trying it out, I really appreciated his doing that. Juno

Thanks John for the information. I've looked up the site. lots of good info. Juno

Juno

He probably would have appreciated the upgraded even more. He's very much into electronics. But he's a really good kid, (eighteen and I still get a huge hug, kiss and "GRANDMA!" when we get together).

Beverly

I also recommend Irfanview. It is a great little program - simple, efficient, & free. You can zoom-in & crop sections of the photo; then "save-as" and re-name the new cropped picture - just that easy. You can easily re-size photos - to reduce for email - with just a few simple mouse-clicks. John T.

Resize, "crop to selection," and rotate are the three that I use the most, in any editing program. Since Irfanview will do those, it's a real problem solver, and the price is right!

Two things I would emphasize are that you usually need to resize - shrink - pictures before emailing them or posting them to public boards. Be sure to "save as .jpg" as well. I often receive pictures that I have to change to .jpg from .txt just so I can see them.

When you save a resized picture, add a number to the name - i.e. xmasquilt.jpg to xmasquilt1.jpg so that you don't lose the original. Sometimes you want to go back and crop a small part of the big picture to show detail, and it's easier if you have the ginormous original.

You are so organized with you photos. Put me to shame. I know when His Highness, The Crown Prince, comes over, He'll organize me even more. This is the one who didn't know where his clothes belonged or how to put away anything he used. Juno

Have you been peeking???? I did clear off the dining room table. For a while....then things arrived.... We won't talk about the kitchen, the bedroom, or the uh....room with sewing machines...

If your room with the sewing machine looks anything like mine it's an immaculate mess. Immaculate because I ran the dust mop over the floor today to pick up some of the loose threads and pins. The rest is creative disaster. If any one, like the King, thinks it's going to get any better, he can figure out how to do it. Juno

Floor? You can see it?

after I run the dust mop portions come dulling through

Sounds like mine, which is a total HEAP after last week's sewing in school! I have eight machines to pack away, plus all the fabric and stuff, and a heap of other things left out from my own last sewing... Bed? What do you mean, there's a BED under this lot? Is there even a FLOOR???