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Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Free Screen Capture Utility
In this video Rede shows you how to use a free portable screen capture utility & your “Prt Sc” key on your keyboard.
I have found this very useful if you need to print or save what is showing on your monitor. I have found some websites that don’t allow printing or saving, with this method I have been able to work around this. I have also used this method when I need screen shots for presentations.
The disadvantage is if you can’t read it on your monitor, you won’t be able to read it when you print or save the image.
Software can be downloaded from Portable Freeware:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775
Friday, June 11, 2010
Free Rede Videos
Rede has organized some of his videos into 2 CDs & they can be downloaded for free. They work like a website but can be run on your computer, your memory stick or burned to CDs. No internet required to play them, just an internet browser & flash 9 or higher, which is probably already installed on your computer. Just extract (unzip) the “ZIP” file, open “Index.html” and your on your way.
Rede has licensed this work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
So feel free to copy, share, remix just respect the license & keep it free.
- Get The Story: Examples on how to make a story from your sources.
- Online Family Trees: How to use other’s information.
- Online Book: How to use free online books
- Census: How to search HeritageQuest censuses, but the technique works on other sites.
- Newspapers: How to search free online newspapers.
- Land: How to find locations & land records, and plot them on a map.
- Internet Search: Tips on using search engines.
- Tips: Computer tips.
- Useful Links: Free links on the internet.
- Introduction: Introduction to GIMP
- Picture File Format: Pros & Cons of different picture formats.
- Scanning & Acquiring A Photo: Loading pictures into GIMP.
- Using The Selection, Curves & Levels Tools: Using different tools in GIMP.
- Wrinkle Repair: Repair wrinkles and other defects with GIMP.
- Fixing A Torn Picture: Fixing a picture torn in half.
Rede has licensed this work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
So feel free to copy, share, remix just respect the license & keep it free.
Labels:
Census,
Educational,
Free Website,
genealogy,
Software,
Tutorial Video
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Photographing Documents on Microfilm Readers
In this video Rede goes into the use of using a digital camera to photograph images from Microfilm & Microfiche Readers. The pros & cons of a digital camera with a tripod, camera mount, and holding the camera. He also goes into editing the digital images with Picasa & GIMP, free imaging software.
The advantages of these techniques are cost, time, and quality. Not as good as a real microfilm scanner, but scanners are not available everywhere.
Looks like the DCM-1 Microfilm Camera Mount that he shows in this video is still available: http://www.gscassociates.com/camera_mount.html
Software used in this video:
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
The advantages of these techniques are cost, time, and quality. Not as good as a real microfilm scanner, but scanners are not available everywhere.
Looks like the DCM-1 Microfilm Camera Mount that he shows in this video is still available: http://www.gscassociates.com/camera_mount.html
Software used in this video:
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
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