Technology

Penny Alcohol Stove

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Penny Alcohol Stove Features “The low-pressure Penny Stove is so simple that you can build a rough one on the trail with a full service knife (no insulation, epoxy, needles, or tape.) If you’ve built a stove before, this one will be a snap.” The hardest part about making this stove is emptying 3 Heineken … Read more

Silent PC Review

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Review: AcoustiPack Noise Damping Kit :: SilentPCReview.com I want to make E’s PC quieter. This info might help.

Walter Murch Keynotes Digital Video Expo West 2004

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Polymath and editing demi-god Walter Murch holds forth at a digital video conference in a Flash video stream – here’s a direct link to the stream. Murch created the terms “sound designer” and “sound montage,” won an Oscar for Best Sound for Apocalypse Now, dual Oscars for The English Patient (Editing and Sound Editing), Oscar … Read more

Unsharp Mask

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”[This tip] involves two things: 1) images that are transformed to a size, say, 75% or smaller from the original size, and 2) the Unsharp Mask filter. Now, I’m speaking in Photoshop terms on that second one, so those of you who speak Fireworks will have to translate for the rest of us.” Using the … Read more