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For those of you who automatically go to either MapQuest of Google Maps, the online mapping services listed in this CyberNet article about five other places to go for maps may surprise you. 

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If you use Gimp, and who doesn’t, you may want to upgrade to version 2.4.

You can download it here.
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If you watch CSI, you will notice it is Nikon digital cameras that they use. All of the photographs you see displayed on this blog that were created by us in the last two years have been taken with the Nikon D50. The D80 is our wish list camera.

It was on a trip to Alaska that inspired us to get something more than a point and shoot camera. We took a point and shoot on the trip to Morocco and kept leaving it places. It was only through sheer luck and a fellow traveler who lived within driving distance of my brother that got that camera back to us.

I started with a Konica and a Leica SLR back in the late Sixties but once Nikon came into the picture it has been a fight between their SLR and the Elf point and shoot. For quality, it certainly is the Nikon, hands down.

These are not the opinion of a professional photographer, but of someone who took over a thousand photos in ten days along the coast of Alaska and up into the Yukon. Even with the 4Gig memory card, I still downloaded onto my laptop’s auxiliary drive.

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Nikon D80 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-55mm ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens

Flickr : Nikon D50-D80

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Of the ten blog editors mentioned in the Mashable.com link to this list, they only one I’ve set up that I don’t already use is Zoundry.

The interesting thing about this editor so far is the Media Repository option. It asks for the FTP settings for where you host your blog. It was easy to fill out as soon as I was able to remember the server password. Everything is set up to act automatically it is a wise thing I keep a secure list of my passwords on… Wait! That wouldn’t be a very smart thing to do…

This works on SquareSpace. That’s good to know if we every want to spend money there and reopen that account.
The only one we couldn’t figure out was Xanga.com. It has its own “X-Tools” for offline editing. So, we won’t be making too many new entries there.

This is written in Zoundry.

Lets see what it looks like live on the Blog.

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This link at Mashable.com brings to the list of 10 Desktop Blog Editors. 

I found two about which I knew nothing or little. 

If they work, you will see comments here about them. 

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Boing-Boing link a proposed mandatory blog-licensing bill before the Italian Legislature. 

Get out the signs!!!
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The song associated with the graphic on the left would get me a total of eighteen cents.  To qualify for the required $100.00 to get any payment I would have to have 556 people by this 89 cent song.  Ooooh, I can’t wait to count the cash!!!  hee hee heeeeeee!

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Stopzilla blocked the instalation of WinAmp 5.5. with a Media-Codec file identified as a highly dangerous Trojan. A little research in the WinAmp forums and around the net found this to be a False Positve reading. I also discovered in my wandering that StopZilla deleted the instalation componants of the file. Not good.

If this happens to you, shut down StopZilla during the instalation. When all of the basic options are set for WinAmp, close it and reboot. This will restart StopZilla, (Assuming you have in the StartUp file.) Then WinAmp should play with no problem.

Speaking of WinAmp 5.5, it can totally replace iTunes in the management of your iPod. I mentioned in an early blog entry that the plugins for iPod control in WinAmp were clumsy. Not a worry any more, it is now part of WinAmp to manage any portable Mp3 player, including iPod. I synced all of the files I have loaded since iTunes committed hari kari in its last upgrade attempt. No more worry, at least with my ancient 60 Gb iPod Photo.

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