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Motorola E398 USB Data Cable and Charger Modification

asu — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:59:30 +0000

Motorola is difficult mobile phone, when you are trying to replace the charger with non-original one, then the phone will tell you “Invalid Charger”. To avoid this case, this tutorial below is show you how to modification data cable which enable for both for charging or transferring data. So your Motorola data cable will more usefull not for flashing only.

Here is your data cable look alike.

1. Open it up and get all wires out

2. Remove the protection

3. Check out the pin scheme by clicking on the picture

4. Scratch the panel on the back and Solder 22Komh resistor end on pin 2 and the second on the scratched place (ground)

now you have modded your usb cable!

(originally taken from:modmymoto)

Tips for Adobe Photoshop CS3, How to Pick an image resolution (Understanding Image Resolution)

asu — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:34:06 +0000

After you have the concept of resampling under your belt, how do you know what size you should be resampling to? How many pixels do you need? Here are your general guidelines:
Photos for your inkjet printer:
Inkjet printers are stochastic printing devices: That is, they use a series of droplets to replicate each pixel in your image, as shown in Figure 2-12. In theory, the optimal image resolution is ƒ1?3 of the printer’s rated resolution.
For example, a printer rated at 720 ppi works best with images at 240 ppi.
1,440 ppi printer, the formula calls for an image resolution of 480 ppi (and that goes for the 2,880 x 1,440 printers, too). However, most folks find that regardless of the printer’s rating, they never need an image resolution higher than 300 ppi.
Web images: Ignore resolution. Ignore the entire Document Size area of the Image Size dialog box. Consider only the image’s pixel dimensions. Determine what area of the Web page the image will occupy and then resize to exactly those pixel dimensions.
Page layout programs and commercial printing: If your image is to be placed into a page layout program’s document and sent to a commercial printing facility, you need to know the line screen frequency (the resolution, so to speak) of the printing press on which the job will be run. Ask the print shop or the person handling the page layout. Your image resolution should be either exactly 1.5 times or exactly twice the line screen frequency. (You shouldn’t notice any difference in the final printed product with either resolution.)
PowerPoint presentations and word processing documents: Generally speaking, 72 ppi is appropriate for images that you place into a presentation or Word document. You should resize to the exact dimensions of the area on the page or slide that the image fills.

3 Things to Consider When Finding Cheap Web Hosting

asu — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:58:00 +0000

Cheap web hosting can be tricky and it definitely takes one with the technical knowledge and experience to be able to judge whether the host is good. More often than not, it is the bad experiences from using cheap web hosting that eventually leads people to lose trust in these low cost endevours and move onto more expensive options, which may not necessarily be better.

Here are few things you should consider when you are looking at a cheap web hosting plan. This should save you from having to go through the things I went through to find the ideal host.

1. Testimonials from existing customers

See if the host has testimonials and check the validity of these testimonials. Many times, the testimonials are from old customers that have already left the host. To find out if that is the case, try visiting the website that accompanies the testimonial and see if it is working. If there is no website, the testimonial is invalid. Find these using the search engines from external sites as those are usually unbiased.

2. Bad Customers Sharing the Same Server

Remember this – bandwidth and diskspace have a limit, no matter how much it seems a web host may have. If you take this fact into account that the host can actually run out of either of these, consider what will happen if another person on the same server abuses this abundance of the two most valuable assets of a web hosting plan. They may do things that get your server blacklisted by the search engines, or cause problems with website loading speeds.

3. Long Term Benefits

Will the web host be able to survive long enough for you to eventually build bonds with them as a loyal customer? When your business has to grow and move forward, will they be able to accomodate with the growth of your company? To gauge, use testimonials to see if they have clients with successful websites that have been with them for more then 2 years.

Formats for digital photos (Tips For Adobe Photoshop CS3)

asu — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:13:58 +0000

If you print your images yourself at home or the office, you can stick with the original format or use the PSD Photoshop format. If you send the photos to the local camera shop (or discount store) for printing, stick with JPEG — or, if they accept it, TIFF. Here are the pros and cons of the major formats that you should consider for photos:

PSD: Photoshop’s native file format is great for saving your images with the most flexibility. Because the PSD format supports all of Photoshop’s features, you don’t need to flatten your images — and keeping your layers lets you make changes later. If your file size is very large (4MB or larger), make a TIFF or JPEG copy before printing, flattening all the layers. Don’t send PSD files to the local shop for prints.

TIFF: Although the TIFF file format (as you use it in Photoshop) can save your layers and most other Photoshop features, make sure to choose Layers Flatten Image before sending files out for printing. Layered TIFF files generally are compatible only with programs in the Creative Suite. If you don’t flatten the image prior to saving as TIFF or if you elect to include layers when saving as TIFF, Photoshop presents you with a gentle reminder.

JPG: JPEG, as it’s called, is actually a file-compression scheme rather than a file format, but that’s not important. What is important is that JPEG throws away some of your image data when it saves the file. Save important images in PSD or TIFF and use JPEG only for copies. When should you use JPEG? When sending images to a photo lab that doesn’t accept TIFF files and when sending images (perhaps by e-mail or on CD) to people who don’t have Photoshop. Unlike PSD and TIFF, you can open JPEG images in a Web browser and print from there — and so can Granny, and Cousin Jim, and that overseas soldier you adopted. When saving JPEGs, the lower the Quality setting you choose in the JPEG Options dialog box, the smaller the file but also the more damage to the image. I discuss saving as JPEG in more detail in the sidebar, “Resaving images in the JPEG format.”

PDF: It’s easy to overlook Adobe’s PDF format when talking about photos, but you should consider using this format. Although the local photo lab probably won’t accept it, it’s a great format for sharing your pictures with folks who don’t have Photoshop. Unlike JPEG, your images won’t be degraded when saving as PDF; and like JPEG, just about anyone with a computer can view the files. (Adobe Reader, which you can use with PDFs,
is found on just about every computer now, just like Web browsers for JPEG.) Keep in mind, however, that PDF files are larger than JPEGs.

Large Document Format (PSB): Really, really, really big pictures over 30,000 pixels wide or long or both need to be saved in the PSB file format. Will you ever need this format? Consider that 30,000 pixels at a
photo-quality resolution of 300 ppi is 100 inches long. At a resolution of 85 ppi, more appropriate for a long banner to hang in a hallway, you’re talking about artwork that stretches almost 30 feet! Can your printer do that? If not, you probably don’t need the PSB file format. You could theoretically use a number of other available formats, such as DCS, PNG, and Photoshop Raw, but there’s no real need with the more common and more versatile formats about which you just read.

If you’re working with photos from your digital camera and you want to save them as JPEG but that format isn’t available in the Save As dialog box, convert the image to 8-bit color with Image > Mode > 8-Bits/Channel. If you shot the image in Raw (or TIFF) and need to save as JPEG, you’ll have to convert to 8-bit color because JPEG doesn’t support 16-bit color.