I sell digital photos on my home page, and the most common question I get is, “Are these pictures 300 DPI?” Unfortunately, I usually can’t answer definitively, because they don’t tell me the size they’re going to print at.
DPI (dots-per-inch) depends on two factors: the resolution of the picture (“dots”) and the size of the image as you will print it (“per inch”). My website shows the resolution for every picture at the top of the page, as part of the pictures description.
For example, this picture has a resolution of 3072 x 2048:
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If you wanted to print it at 3×5, it would be 614.4DPI (3072/5=614.4). Vertically, it would be 682.6DPI (2048/3), but you’d need to crop it vertically to get the 3×5 proportions, so the DPI will be the same once it’s cropped.
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Hi Tony!
I’m going to try to make this simple. Retired,love my back yard birds of which some species I had to work on attracting them after reading (Back Yard Birds), Woodpeckers,Finches etc. I got good at this and was flabbergasted when I finally got to see my first woodpecker. This was a big event for me and now I want a camera to go along with this great media center windows xp computer with 20” wide screen monitor. I would like to purchased a middle of the road digital camera that is fairly user friendly and yet has some step up settings for defined photos. With so much software out there which would you advise for me in the type/brand of camera and the softwhere that makes things more simple. I also have the printer that can handle this,a ( all in one photo printer ),pic bridge.plenty ram,photo ink & paper,and a wide variety of supported memory cards of different cameras. It would greatly appreciated if you could help me on this subject about which camera and software.
This is a windows xp media center computer and the monitor & photo printer was in mind with this kind of computer. One more thing, a external hard drive. Would it be wise to have one for photo backup or what would be appropriate and gig size. I liked your simple kitchen photos since I also garden peppers of all colors for my homemade salsa. I also would like to be able to make 8×10 portraits-Pixels ?
Sincerely,JDEME
Print a photograph from a memory card Printing tasks Scanning/Copying/Faxing tasks Troubleshooting
Most digital cameras use a media card to store photos. The Dell Photo AIO Printer 964 supports the following digital media and USB keys:
CompactFlash Type I and II
Memory Stick
Memory Stick PRO
SmartMedia
Secure Digital
MultiMediaCard
xD-Picture Card (up to 512 MB)
DELL – 256 MB High Speed USB 2.0 Memory Key, Part Number 311-4341
DELL – 128 MB High Speed USB 2.0 Memory Key, Part Number 311-4340
DELL – 64 MB High Speed USB 2.0 Memory Key, Part Number 311-4339
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I’m a fickle gamer. I love games, but I don’t have much time to play games, so when I do sit down with a controller I want the game to be great.
For years, I just bought games new from the local Circuit City. Often, though, I’d get a game home and realize I hated it, and I was out $50. When GameFly started, I thought, this’ll be cheaper than buying the games, and I won’t have to worry if I get a game that I hate–I just send it back and get another.
I’ve been a GameFly member for more than three years now (since January of 2004), and overall I’d give it 3/5 stars. It does work as advertise–they mail me games, and I send them back postage-free in the included mailer. They’ve always given me whatever game I had at the top of my queue, including games that would have been hard to buy in stores. They sell used games at very cheap prices ($20-$35) for the few occasions that I want to buy one.
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I’ve used Vonage for voice since August, 2004. Voice was okay; it was never great. There was always some delay/latency. Sometimes it wasn’t really noticeable, and other times it was very distracting–it seemed like a whole second between the time you spoke and the time the other person heard you speak. You’d be surprised how awkward that makes conversation, because you’ll often be inadvertently interrupting the person you’re speaking to, and you won’t realize it for a second.
I decided that I needed some Quality of Service (QoS) so I replaced my router with one of these D-Link GamerLounge
routers. That series of routers has a much more aggressive QoS than other routers, because it will constantly break large, lower-priority packets into smaller segments. See, while QoS will prioritize realtime traffic like Voice over IP (VoIP) over traffic like Web transfers (say, HTTP and FTP), it can only prioritize queued traffic. That helps, but if the router is in the middle of transferring a large packet, it can’t be interrupted with a VoIP packet, and the VoIP packet has to wait the few milliseconds it takes to transmit the large, lower-priority packet. The GamerLounge routers minimize this effect by fragmenting all large, low-priority outbound packets so that the interruption will be less.
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For the love of God, please stop watching Lost. Look, if you’re waiting for questions to be answers and secrets to be revealed, you’re really just waiting for the writers to make up answers. This show hasn’t been planned out; they’re making it up as they go along. Until the show gets cancelled, they’ll just keep making up more stuff and adding more ridiculous characters.
I’m still watching it. It’s like 7th Heaven; it’s an awful show, and I hate it, but I can’t stop watching it. I loved Lost at first, though, and my conversion happened gradually over season 2 and 3. Now, every time they introduce a new character, I swear I’m going to stop watching.
But my stupid DVR tapes it next week, and at some point, I end up watching it again.

As they say, “If you liked Flash Element TD, you’ll love Flash Circle TD.” In this flash game (it runs within your browser), enemies come in waves and navigate your simple maze. You setup towers to kill the enemies. You have five different towers to pick from, and each tower can be upgraded up to level 9.
I tried two main strategies to choose from:
- Add as many towers as possible
- Apgrade a smaller number of towers.
A larger number of towers is clearly the better strategy (I tried both). My high score is 2326 (proof after the jump), which I got using the “add more towers” strategy. Upgrading a fewer number of towers only got me 1059.
I can’t imagine that the Slow tower does any good, so just avoid it.
Start by adding only Splash towers, positioning them to cover as much area as possible. After the first Air creeps appear, add enough Air towers to take them out. If you get Air creeps circling around and hanging around too long, add a bunch of Air towers. You don’t need to eliminate them quickly; you just need to keep the total below 100. Ideally, you’d keep your Air towers busy 100% of the time without letting the Air creeps build up too much..
Unlike Flash Element TD, you don’t earn interest on the money you have saved up. So, spend it right away.
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