Sickles Insight

Tips & Tricks – “Frame within a Frame”

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate
HOW IT WORKS: When composing a picture, include some foreground material in front of your subject that helps frame the subject. Often this involves stepping back or looking through something which can artistically bring attention to the subject being photographed. This technique works because […]

Word’s AutoCorrect feature is designed to fix your typos as they occur. You’ve probably noticed that “teh” is changed to “the” and “adn” is changed to “and.” This saves you some time when it comes to editing your document. If you are less observant, you may think you are a better typer than reality […]

I’ve often been asked, ‘how do I create a PDF’ file. I always reply with the same answer - it’s easy, use PrimoPDF. I figured I had to write this down since I was asked twice within several hours today.
Creating a document from content you’ve already created that will display in Adobe Reader is […]

Let’s be honest, passwords are annoying, sometimes even more annoying are the usernames. Perhaps you are one of the lucky few to have your username available on any system you use - I, however, find myself often in need of changing my username due to the systems requirement or someone else already consuming the name. […]

 
Do-It-Yourself Laptop & iPod Repair, this is the self proclaimed title of ifixit’s excellent ‘fixit’ guides. If you have broke your computer or iPod, the fixit guides provide detailed disassembly instructions that will walk you through the whole process from start to finish. With pictures, step by step instructions, and occassionaly locations on where to […]

Spam filtering will never be 100% accurate, but we can sure try to keep on top of the ugly situation! More than three people asked me questions this weekend pertaining to Microsoft Outlook and the built in junk e-mail filtering, so I thought it best that I jot down some quick notes concerning this […]

 
Tips & Tricks – “Triangles”

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate
HOW IT WORKS: When posing people or objects try to arrange them in triangles. This goes hand in hand with many of the photo “tips & tricks” from 2006 by way of breaking symmetry and creating odd numbered compositions. This helps give the eye a pattern or […]

Yes, I said free back-up protection for your contacts. This is a note to all Verizon wireless customers, my upfront apologies for those of you who are connected to another wireless network carrier. Okay now for the good stuff, this is really good news - and it would be an absolute shame for you not […]