Whenever I’ve needed to print digital photos, I’ve found that Photolab – the photo processing arm of the Canadian grocery chain Loblaws – has always done a great job. Photos are typically printed in a day or less, are easy to pick up – just stop by your local supermarket! – and have always turned [...]
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Sending Email with PowerShell: Implicit and Explicit SSL
I never quite understood the attraction of scripting; sure, not having to set up the scaffolding code of a more formal language is nice, but the limitations of the environment just seemed too great. The Unix community has it far better than the Windows community in this regard; shell scripting can accomplish amazing feats – [...]
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EXIF Quick Reference
Over the past few years, I’ve used the EXIF data stored by modern digital cameras in a couple of programs I’ve worked on. Having access to the date the photo was taken – or which way the camera was rotated when it was – is useful information to have. Even though it’s relatively easy to do, finding the right identifier for the information you want is much harder than it should be. This page fills that niche – the most useful/popular EXIF properties in an easy-to-find format.
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