Saturday, October 21, 2006
Daily Specials on Memory Cards, Inkjet Supplies, Blank Dvds, USB Drives
Daily specials on:
- usb flash drives
- SD memory cards
- Compact Flash
- Blank DVDs
- Blu-Ray Drives
- MP3 Players
- inkjet supplies
- gadgets
- Toner Cartridges
Monday, October 16, 2006
How to Change A Drive Letter In Windows
I use Microsoft’s free backup tool SyncToy to do basic backup of several important folders onto an external usb drive. SyncToy does not allow the user to change drive letters once set in the application.
That poses a problem when plugging and unplugging numerous external devices like digital cameras, PDAs and flash drives. The assigned drive letters change as you add or remove peripherals. When SyncToy is run again, the drive letter originally assigned in SyncToy may not exist.
To manually change the drive letter in Windows XP go to the Control Panel.
- click on Performance and Maintenance (in Category view) or Administrative Tools/ Computer Management/Disk Management (in Classic view)
- right click drive, partition or volume you wish to change drive letter
- click Change Drive Letter and Paths
- click Add
- click Assign the following drive letter and select the drive letter from the menu
- click OK
The drive letter will be assigned to the drive, partition or volume you specified and the drive letter will show up in the Disk Management tool and in My Computer.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Prevent Photoshop CS from Truncating Filenames When Export to Web
Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS 2 has a terrible default setting whereby it truncates image filenames to 31 characters for Mac OS 9 compatibility.
For those of us who are interested in SEO work this is unacceptable. Fortunately I found the solution at this site.
http://philip.greenspun.com/photography/photoshop-scripts/
Setting Up Photoshop Defaults
Photoshop out of the box will truncate filenames to 31 characters for compatibility with the feeble file system in Macintosh OS 9. This only happens on the “save for Web” thumbnail part of the script. A kind soul at Adobe sent me the following instructions for disabling this default:
Create or open a file, then bring up the Save For Web dialog. Pop open the little flyout menu (circle with arrow in it) to the right of the Preset menu and choose “Edit Output Settings...”. In the Output Settings dialog, choose “Saving Files” from the second popup, then uncheck the “Mac OS 9” checkbox under “Filename Compatibility”. OK the dialog and click Done in the main Save For Web dialog.
Photoshop also applies a lot of automatic adjustments to Camera RAW images by default, including as much as one f-stop of exposure adjustment. If you’re generally careful about exposure and other settings at the time of exposure you’ll probably want to turn off the automatic adjustments and “save new camera defaults” each time that you get a new camera (or maybe just a new RAW format extension). The procedure is explained on page 162 of the hardcopy manual that is included with Photoshop CS2.