Swordie Bloggie

Do you have photographs taken with megapixels digital camera? I’m sure you do, because digital cameras are compact and reasonably priced nowadays. The pixels are getting higher and higher where even the most compact and cheapest digicam can have resolutions of 5 megapixel or more.

Each photograph will require as much as 1.5MB or more storage space. Of course with the higher pixels and resolutions, the photographs details and colors will be more brilliant. And the large size is not a problem today since storage card are cheap and large in capacity. You can have 1GB storage card and 4GB are getting common. And if you need more space, there are 8GB or 16GB. In fact 32GB are already in the market right now.

The only problem with large size photographs is when we need to transfer it to another medium. The most frustrating will be when we need to email or publish it on the web.

If you don’t have photo editing software, the only option you have is using the PaintBrush which comes with the Windows. You can reduce the size of the photographs to about 20% for instant and save it to another file. You can reduce your 1.5MB photographs to roughly about 50KB, but all subject to your original photographs. This method is not bad, I have been using this trick for sometimes and when I’m on a machine which doesn’t have any photographs tools.

But that trick requires you to do some typing and clicks. Microsoft actually has a tool called Image Resizer. It is available since June 20, 2005 and you can download it for FREE at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx and the manual at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx.

The tool is very small, only 521KB and once installed, it will integrate with your file explorer. Using Image Resizer is as easy as right clicking on your photographs file from file explorer and chooses the size you like to have from the popup window. Your photographs will be resized and save on another file. For example, if you resize your image001.jpg file, it will be copied to image001 (small).jpg automatically after it being resized. Just make sure you don’t tick on “Resize the original pictures (don’t create copies)”.

So, go a head… give it a try if you don’t have any photograph editor to resize your super huge photos 🙂

My photography is getting better I guess. I’m using the Canon PowerShot S3 IS set to manual mode. The two pictures are my trial on doing detail shot. Focus on the subject and blurred the background.

Flower on the table at Tuaran Beach Resort… the flower looks so fresh and real.

Papaya branch leave with water droppings during rainy day behind my garage… the water bubbles looks so real, right? 🙂 Can you see my reflexion on the water bubbles?

At last, I manage to configure my database, php and wordpress. Now, the next step is to move my blog data from swordbomber.blogspot.com

Any posting you see before this posting are my old posting from my old blogspot 🙂

Someone got stucked on soft side of the road…
 

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swimming pool.

life guard stuff…

volley ball…

the only non-natural play things for the kids on the garden.

the feng shui fountain.

walkway from the seaside…

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They still doing some renovation on the resort… They have been doing it since last year, even during our workshop last year.

Between the main hall (left) and the rooms.

Three bald coconut tree.

Cupid on the right side of the main hall entrance…

… on the left side.

bicycles…

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Four of us arrived first… so we were given apple juice and cakes 🙂

Nasi Goreng

Fried Noodle

Sandwich

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7 of us went to Tuaran Beach Resort to have a look at the site for our workshop at the end of this year. We also had our workshop here last year. I drove my car accompanied by Darius. Two of our coleague arrived a head of us.

 
Tuaran Beach Resort welcoming file

The Arch…

closer.

Opposite view from the arch.

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Went back to the shoe shop during lunch time. I was worried the taukey will try to make excuses for not going to replace it.

Surprisingly, they were so helpfull… I said “is this ori?”… taukey said “ya ya ya… tat y we will change it… we will claim it from the supplier…”. And the taukey also siad “you can use it for 1 week and if something goes wrong with it, you can come back…”. Wah… this is good… so i was happy… they ask me to get another shoes as long it priced the same. I end up getting a cheaper shoes and asked to get a socks too… well its looks like after adding it up, it still cheaper… but i said, what the heck… after all they giving a good service… from :O to 🙂 The replacement shoes is Camel Active Nautor II.

My old torn shoes… Camel Active X-Ranger
  

This is what happened to your shoes if you practice golf swing with it…

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While flipping between TV3 News and Golf Channel on Astro just before 9pm… thunggg… a sound came from the ceiling fan. A bee landed on my lap! On my pants! The bee was hit by the fan blade… it looks lost & hurt…

I was stunned for a minute… I just stare at the bee. Then I realized it was in attacking possition… butt pointing down and its head curling down towards its but… goshh… its butt was pumping… it actually trying to sting me although the bee looks lost & injured… luckily it was on my pants!!! Then I knock it off using my fingger… it landed on the floor. But it left behind its sting on my pants.

 
The bee after I knock it off from my pants.

The sting it left behind stucked on my pants.

 
The poison it left on my pants!

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