Digital Cameras And The Modern World

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Today is the age of science and technology. Billions of people all around the world need technical devices for their daily routine activities. These products include computers, laptops, fax machines, telephones, mobile phones and cameras etc. These devices are of great help to the users. Now you can send you recent photos to your friends and family members no matter wherever they are, within no time.

Camera is a vital example of technological advancements that have revolutionized the world beyond the boundaries of imaginations. Life was never such easier and joyful ever before. Camera is an electronic device that captures and records the images you want it to capture and then you can take a print of these images whenever you want.

Models and designs of cameras have been continuously varying since its discovery. The engineers used to put latest features in it by keeping under consideration the need of time and the competition in the market because to survive successfully in the market, one must keep himself updated of the competitor products being sold in the market and the feed back of the customers.

Now digital cameras have occupied the market wholly and manual cameras are considered old styled. Digital camera work on the principle of electronics and results of a digital one are receiving great feed back.

As the technology progresses further, such mobile phones are introduced in the market which have a built-in camera. Wow, it means that you have a camera of your own in hand all the time and now no memorable incident of your life could be missed. You are now able to capture all the moments of your life by pressing a single button. Remarkable, is not it? Life was never such a joy.

Latest models of digital cameras have remarkable features in them. Here is a list of some latest models of cameras with rock-solid features in them;

Canon EOS 5D Mark II;

Canon EOS 5D Mark II has a follow-up of 5D and delivers high quality results. Now, you have no need of any professional photographers.

Nikon D5000

Canon PowerShot S95

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1

These latest cameras, not only captures still images, but also capture movements through video making feature. You can make video of any important moment of your life for example, first word said by your baby. Such moments will never come back and technology has provided you the opportunity to make them stored in your album forever. You can alter the picture by adding different interesting effects; you can change colors of your picture and put colors of your own choice to make your photo perfect.

Digital camera show immediate result of your snap shot, you can delete the photo if you did not find the result satisfactory. The mega pixels of the camera are responsible for delivering a good picture. The more mega pixels your camera has, the clearer your photo will be.

Life was never so entertaining and happier without the use of camera. Now, no precious moment could escape from being captured and stored.

Salt Cavern CO2 Storage in Northern Pennsylvania

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Clarion County Pennsylvania is in the conceptual stages of storing CO2 underground in salt caverns. Basically, carbon dioxide released during coal burning for energy, will be captured and pushed underground instead of into the environment, of which contributes to global warming.

We’ve seen many examples of the other uses of salt cavern storage, for instance; natural gas, CAES, but here is a good example of the use of CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequester) in salt caverns.

The government in Pennsylvania has not only discussed the concept but has requested the assessment of the state’s geological storage potential. The technology will create jobs and will allow the states coal burning industries to continue to operate in an environmentally sound regard. The more states that jump onto this clean tech bandwagon, the quicker the US can mandate these practices.

The carbon storage capacity in salt caverns is quite large in the US, something to the amount of 600 billion tonnes of CO2. It is a feasible long term solution as well as being quite safe. However, the research on CO2 leakage, contaminating drinking water, and the accountability, isn’t 100% and this is usually the hindrance in launching a CCS project.

For Clarion County, deep and solid salt beds made mostly of halite could be created by solution mining to bore out the wells for CO2 storage. The dissolved salt could then be used for fertilizer or other commercially valuable products.

If Pennsylvania can headline this technology, it could bring huge returns for the state. Investors understand the lucrative future of such a clean tech project, and will be eager to support them. Not only do the investors win, but so does the earth.

Jason Fradley

Top 10 Ways to Clean Up, Organize & Save Space On Your Hard Drive

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If your computer is running slower these days, or freezes up when you have too many programs running, you might need to reorganize your hard drive. Even if your computer runs smoothly right now, it is still beneficial to know all of the space saving techniques that you can use to make sure your computer is clean, easy to navigate and in it’s best possible condition. Before you begin, take a look at the current disk space you are utilizing and how much free disk space you have available.

Go to “My Computer”

(PC Users) Right click on “C Drive”

Go to “Properties”

In the General tab, it should give you pie chart and information regarding the amount of free space currently available on your hard drive. If your free space is less than your used space, it is important that you make sure you are maximizing your computer’s performance by cleaning up your disk. Here is a list of ten ways to clean up, organize and save space on your computer’s hard drive.

1. Save space on your hard drive: Disk Clean Up

In the “Properties” dialogue box that you checked out by right clicking your “C Drive” folder, again, go to the “General Tab.” Click on “Disk Cleanup.” After this function has scanned your computer for available space, it will present you with another dialogue box. Here, you can view the files that are currently available to be deleted without causing problems on your system. These types of files include: Temporary Internet Files, Recycle Bin and can even compress your older files. You can click on each item, and view a brief description of what their purpose and reason is for being on your system. If it says, “You can safely delete these files” definitely check mark these items. The other items you will have to use severe discretion, as once they are deleted they will not be available again. After check marking the files you want to delete, click on “Clean up.”

2. Save space and organize your hard drive: Defrag your Computer

In the “Properties” dialogue box that you checked out by right clicking your “C Drive” folder, go to the “Tools” tab. Click on the “Defrag Now” button and your computer will analyze the space and information on your hard drive. After this, it will let you know if you need to defrag. If it recommends that you defrag, go ahead and do this. Nothing will be deleted, but your computer will maximize all the information it has on it by reorganizing the files.

3. Save space on your hard drive: Delete old or unused Program Files

Go to your control panel; Open up the folder entitled, “Add or Remove Programs.” Your computer might take a couple minutes to list your currently installed program files. Once it compiles the list, look through it and observe carefully the amount of space each program is taking up, how often you use each program, what company the program was downloaded from, and the name of the program. Do not delete any program that you aren’t aware of its use. It could possibly be a very important windows program that you aren’t aware is running to ensure proper computer functionality. But, if there are old, unused programs that you do not plan to use any longer, or do not need, go ahead and remove these programs.

4. Save space on your hard drive: Invest in an external hard drive

External hard drives are a great resource for anyone and everyone. They provide a great way of saving space on your computer by allowing you to transfer old, rarely used files that you may want to access later, onto another hard drive that will store them safely. Another great use for a hard drive is for back up purposes. An external hard drive will not get a virus, so by transferring important files onto it; you are guaranteeing a safe back up of all your documents.

5. Save Space on your hard drive: Zip it up!

Zipping up your files is basically a way of compressing your files into very, very small files, while keeping them easily accessible if you ever need them. There are many ways to do this, but the most common and easy way is to use a program like “WinZip.” You can get a free version of this program at:

Winzip Archive Utility

It advertises as a free trial, but, between you and me, you never really have to purchase the full version. The evaluation version will work fine.

Good files to zip up are documents and files that are important, but you do not need to access very often. If you need these files at least once a month, don’t archive them, because it will become a hassle trying to open them back up all the time. Take the files you don’t need to use all the time, zip them up into pertinent folders, and delete the originals. Anytime you need to use the files, simply unzip the contents of the folders and enjoy!

6. Save Space on your hard drive: Save onto Data Disks

Saving files onto data disks is not the ideal scenario, as you can’t really fit all that much onto them, and they cost money. But, if you first zip the files up that you’re going to transfer onto the data disks, then you will be able to fit more information onto them. After that, you can go back and delete all the files from your computer. Personally, if you’re going to purchase data disks, and go through the trouble of transferring files onto them, it would be better to invest into an external hard drive. They will hold more information and be easier to work with.

7. Save Space on your hard drive: Music Files

Music files take up a ridiculous amount of space on your computer. By transferring these files onto an external drive, zipping them up, or burning them all onto data disks you will free up an exorbitant amount of space.

8. Organize your Hard Drive: Delete Files from your Desk Top

Having too many files on the desk top of your computer can feel cluttered and obtrusive. If you work on the computer, or use it for any time at all, you will feel all warm and fuzzy inside by deleting or moving the files from your desktop and putting them into files within your “My Documents” “Pictures” or other directories within your computer. It will also help you to access the files more intuitively and stay organized.

9. Organize your Hard Drive: Book Marks

This isn’t necessarily related to your hard drive, but it is refreshing to have a nice set of organized, well titled and descriptive bookmarks in the browser that you prefer. Open up your book marks, and properly title, organize in folders, delete unused links and view all your book marks. This will also take some time, but will probably save you time in the long run, by finding the sites you need right away and with ease.

10. Organize your Hard Drive: Delete, Rename and Organize your Folders

On your computer, the top tier of folder should be: My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, Program Files, Temp, and Windows (or whatever operating system name or designation is here.) There may be some others depending upon what you have downloaded onto your system, like PHP, APACHE or others. Under these folders, you should do your best to organize, delete, rename and prioritize your files so that you can access them as easily as possible, and as intuitively as possible. It may take some time, but it end up saving you time in the long run; instead of searching through your whole computer for a file or folder, you’ll know exactly where it’s at. Also, by doing this, you might find folders and/or files that you can safely delete. DO NOT delete any files or folders within your windows or other operating system directory. In fact, don’t even go in that folder unless you are an experienced operating system professional.

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