Learn something about Photo Printer

Maximum people want their photographs to look as same five years from now as they were printed. But, colour photographs from inkjet printers have often suffered from premature discolouration.

It is not a matter your best digital camera prints good or bad. If you want to get the most out of digital photography, you need to give as much time to learning about photo printers as you give for digital cameras. A part of this procedure is to know which photo printer will best suit your needs. Another part is to know that which features commonly touted by printer manufacturers.

In the market, any colour inkjet printer will be able to print your digital photographs but it is not true because an inkjet printer designed specifically for printing photographs will do better job at printing photographs than a printer that does double or triple duty as a text and graphics printer.

The reason is that photo printer is designed to handle the myriad of colour gradations and tonality which is the need of photographs because general purpose colour inkjet tends to have only four separate ink tanks or a single ink tank that hold several colours while photo printer has more than eight separate ink tanks.

The additional colours of ink typically include lighter shades of magenta and cyan, and different types of black ink to allow you to print very nice black & white photographs on various kind of paper.

Now, those problems have been towards to varying degrees by the major photo printer makers and ink especially Epson and you can buy photo printers that feature inks provide prints that can last up to 200 years without fading.

Good news about photo printers is that they don’t have to cost a lot but it is well known that inkjet printer manufacturers make maximum of their money on ink and paper. In near future, the cost of ink will far exceed your initial expense for the printer.

New Technique To Increase Computer Speed

Everyone want to increase the speed of computers that consume less and less energy. For designing such computers of the future, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain in the processors.

We have to give thanks to a new electron holography technique invented by researchers at the CEMES- CNRS, it is possible to map deformation in a crystal lattice with a precision and resolution never previously attained. This new patented measurement device removes nearly all the limitations of current methods and it should enable manufacturers to improve microprocessor production methods and to optimize future computers.

“Strained” silicon is a basic component of all recent microprocessors because local strain-induced deformation in the crystal lattice improves processor performance. The deformation increases electron mobility, making it possible to boost computer speed and reduce energy consumption. Manufacturers could not analyze deformation accurately, so they didn’t have complete mastery of chip design. But they relied on simulations and monitoring of performance without knowing the strain state. This problem has now been solved, and thanks to a new strain measurement method developed by a CNRS team.

This technique is based on electron holography (technique for measuring magnetic and electric fields), it makes it possible to measure deformation (compression, tension, and shear strain) in numerous materials with high precision and spatial resolution. Real innovation compared to traditional techniques that makes it possible to analyze a micrometer area rather than the previous 100 nanometers with a level of precision never reached before.

Future Source of Power will be WIND

A group of  environmental activist  has carried out new economic modelling, which shows that wind power may be cheaper than coal i future( by 2030 ).

According to a report, Greenpeace Australia has given this claim, which is put in an ambitious blueprint to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This  blueprint, Australia`s Energy  evolution , proposes cutting greenhouse emissions to 60% of 1990 levels by 2020 by generating 40% of electricity from  new sources. It states that this would stabilise energy prices in the future, as long as it is added with significant gains in energy efficiency. But in some way,it warns that if Australia does not move away from fossil fuels, electricity prices will nearly double by 2020 and triple by 2050 ,because of rising world prices and the increasing price of carbon permits under an emissions trading scheme.Fossil fuels will continue to get more expensive, while the cost of wind will fall because of economies of scale.

According to reporter, “For the first time we can see that how we are able to phase out the dirtiest fossil fuel in Australia and by 2030 have removed the biggest sources of greenhouse gas , coal”.This report concentrates on the transport and energy sectors and  advocates improved insulation, more efficient electrical appliances, and replacing electrical heaters and hot water systems with solar devices.

IBM warms to utilities in EED (Energy Efficiency Drive)

A keynote speech will be delivered by IBM’s top hardware executive, William Zeitler, at a large utility industry conference for bridging the worlds of IT and electricity. Steve Cole said, “We want to challenge the electricity industry to stop thinking about lighting and motors–the traditional stuff–and look at IT as a big user of electricity”.

It is estimated that data centers alone use about 2 % of the world’s electricity and the rate of energy usage and spending is going up steadily.Due to the rising cost of growing environmental awareness and electricity, IBM and other IT vendors have invested in more energy-efficient computing gear.There are several technologies, such as virtualization and techniques for minimize energy usage. A current IBM customer survey found that only 26% of IT managers had responsibility for energy usage.

IBM deals with IT professions, utilities have customer relationships with the facilities managers at companies that work with energy usage and management. Once a standard EnergyStar rating for servers and storage is completed, measuring efficiency will be more easy.

Important Tips on Microsoft Photo Editor

Some handy tips on Microsoft Photo Editor for your images…

1. Resize Image : On the menu bar ,click on the Image function and select ‘resize’. Then you will see a menu box pop up with Width, Height, and a Percentage for both, Units, and two click boxes – distortion and smooth. You can change the percentage according to your neePhoto Editor changes the image size automatically corresponding to the percentage. Click OK to apply .

2. Crop Image : If you want to remove some portions of the image , pick up the Select tool from the toolbar and select the area you want to retain.After it go to the Image menu and click on Crop. Your image gets cropped.

3. Convert to black and white (Gray Scale) : You can change your colour images to grayscale . For it click right on the image and select Properties. In the Properties box go to the Type scroll menu and select Gray Scale and click OK.

4. Set the Right Resolution : If you want to change the resolution of your image, right click on the image and select Properties. In the Properties dialog box, set the resolution which you want. To use your pic for the Web, select 72 dpi and to print in high quality, an image of 300 dpi is required. Click OK for this.

5. Apply Artistic Effect : If you want to apply artistic effects,go to the Effects option in the menu bar. You can choose from a number of effects and apply to your image. If you want to apply the effect on a part of the image, you can select that particular part by using the Select tool from the toolbar .Then apply the effect.

A Tiny Pocket Video Projector – The PocketCinema V10

With technology getting smaller and smaller, there are some great gadgets being launched, the latest one is from Aiptek with their pocket projector, the PocketCinema V10.

As you can see from the photo the PocketCinema V10 is tiny compared to standard projectors. It uses technology developed by 3M which we featured on the site before.

This tiny projector can project an image up to 50 inches, which is pretty impressive. It comes with 1GB of internal storage, not a lot for movies, but there is also a built in multi card reader which can read SD, MMC and MS Pro cards.