If you can subtract six hours from your local UK time, there ya go.  Who needs an ugly widget; use your fingers if you must.

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I do one better I take down whole websites in my spare time that criminals set up as phishing traps :)

..and how do you accomplish that feat, 3Dillusions?? ;-)

Yes, I'd like to know that answer myself, seeing as how I'm a Systems Manager for one of the world's largest A/E firms.

Thanks for the recognitioin :)  My squirrel friend thanks you, too! :)

This is truly a surprise for me!  Thank you for the recognition, and conratulations to the rest of those chosen :)

Not knowing what type of monitor you have, but if it's a 22" LCD widescreen (16:9), your native resolution on the monitor should be at 1680x1050.

Incredible photographs, really a treat to view his gallery :)  Easy to see why he was selected.  Congratulations, Eddie!

Thank you very, very much!  I'm very happy for the recognition of the macro, and the subject fly, well if he could, would thank you too :)

Congrats to all those selected!  Nice work by all :)

Kind Regards,

Steve

As usual, great selections of great work!  Congratulations to all those selected!

I feel honored to have had one of my images selected.  Thank you so much for the recognition, and a hearty congratulations to the rest this week!  Wonderful photos by all :)

Good Shooting :)

Steve

Another product to consider is Photo Acute.

It gives decent results for up-rezzing, DR, HDR, focus stacking, etc.  You can download a trial version.

Regards,

Steve

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Please be considerate of those who are on dial-up connections.
If you insist on "shrinking" your uploads to the maximum 500kb....you will be losing almost all of the folks who are still on dial-up.  I for one will be very reluctant to wait for a 500kb image to load unless the thumb is a real stunner.

Interesting thoughts.

I'm one of the spoiled ones on broadband.  As a matter of fact, I have more broadband than I know what to do with.  Due to my wife's business which requires massive bandwidth, we have required twin FiOS (fiber optic) connections installed in our home (20mbps and 50mbps) plus a residential DSL line provisioned at 3mbps that is used for other non-business purposes.

Guess which one I use?

You raise a very good point in that many people tend to size their images rather large, and I'm probably one of them here, tending to average well over 300k.  I suppose it's easy to forget there are dial-up users out there who are still using it for one reason or another; lack of broadband availability or cost of high-speed access.  From a business standpoint, the FiOS that is installed in our home is fairly cheap at less than $220 per month for both circuits.  The 3mbps DSL is tied with the residential phone and is less than $40 per month.

Pew performed an interesting poll earlier this year on availability of and desire to have broadband access in the U.S. ...

NEW YORK — A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.

The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the argument that broadband providers need to more aggressively roll out supply to meet demand.  Only 14 percent of dial-up users say they're stuck with the older, slower connection technology because they can't get broadband in their neighborhoods, Pew reported Wednesday.

Thirty-five percent say they're still on dial-up because broadband prices are too high, while another 19 percent say nothing would persuade them to upgrade. The remainder have other reasons or do not know.

"That suggests that solving the supply problem where there are availability gaps is only going to go so far," said John Horrigan, the study's author. "It's going to have to be a process of getting people more engaged with information technology and demonstrating to people it's worth it for them to make the investment of time and money."

Nonetheless, the Pew study does support concerns that rural Americans have more trouble getting faster Internet connections, which bring greater opportunities to work from home or log into classes at distant universities. Twenty-four percent of rural dial-up users say they would get broadband if it becomes available, compared with 11 percent for suburbanites and 3 percent for city dwellers.

Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's key inventors and an advocate for the idea that the government should be more active in expanding broadband, suspects that many more dial-up users would be interested in going high-speed if they had a better idea of what they're missing. He pointed out that broadband access is available from only one provider in many areas, keeping prices high and speeds low.

"Some residential users may not see a need for higher speeds because they don't know about or don't have ability to use high speeds," Cerf said. "My enthusiasm for video conferencing improved dramatically when all family members had MacBook Pros with built-in video cameras, for example."

Overall, Pew found that 55 percent of American adults now have broadband access at home, up from 47 percent a year earlier and 42 percent in March 2007. By contrast, only 10 percent of Americans now have dial-up access.

Despite the increase in overall broadband adoption, though, growth has been flat among blacks and poorer Americans.

Of the Americans with no Internet access at all, about a third say they have no interest in logging on, even at dial-up speeds. Nearly 20 percent of nonusers had access in the past but dropped it. Older and lower-income Americans are most likely to be offline.
 

Pew's telephone study of 2,251 U.S. adults, including 1,553 Internet users, was conducted April 8 to May 11 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. The error margins for subgroups are higher — plus or minus 7 percentage points for the dial-up sample.

www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/02/1633414-study-says-many-dial-up-users-dont-want-broadband

Regards.

Thank you warmly for the recognition this week, I really appreciate it!  And congrats to everyone else mentioned this week.  But most importantly, congrats and thanks to everyone who share their photos on this web site.  It's always a pleasure to see the images your cameras have captured and the effort you have put forth in presenting them.  While I can't comment on them all, I really do LOOK at them all, and nearly every one of them brings a smile to my face and as well present ideas in creativity for my own work.

There's an incredible amount of talent in the Renderosity Photography Gallery

Renderosity and its members simply remain the friendliest, and by far, the best.  I know I'm not alone in that feeling.

Kind Regards,

Steve

I wouldn't use a leather shammy from any animal as it may contain natural animal oils.  Buy a few microfibre cloths instead...the kind used for cleaning eyeglasses, but make certain they are true microfiber.  They are available for purchase from many outlets on the Internet as well as nearly every camera shop, as are Rocket Blasters (to blow off your sensor), available from Amazon or other.  Also, consider a lens pen for cleaning your lenses.

What camera gear do you have?