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 | Digital USB Microscope Video Camera |
 | "Microscope wonderful, when the connections work..." | 2008-05-06 |
1) This microscope requires you to focus and press the snapshot button--hard--to take a picture, while simultaneously trying to keep the camera perfectly still. 2) I can't remember what combination of menu items I had to click in the included software, Digital Microscope - DirectShow Video Capture Sample, ver 1.00, copyright Syntek Corp, before I got the program to preview any image at all. 3) Each time you click the red button to take a snapshot, a new window opens OVER the preview window, so you have to save and close the image, or at least drag and drop it elsewhere, everytime you snap a shot. 4) The folder where the Digital Microscope program saves image files by default is a system folder under Windows. Hmm. That's awkward. 5) I found that I preferred previewing and editing the images in Photoshop Elements 2.0, which, once I reinstalled the driver/software a few times recognized the microscope as a TWAIN device. The preview window has a button you click to take the snapshot. Plus, wherever you save the first file, the rest are saved to the same place unless you specify a different target destination. Now all that aside, I just tried to use my microscope again, however now Photoshop Elements is giving me an error message and even after I reinstalled everything, neither Digital Microscope - DirectShow Video Capture nor Elements will preview images from the microscope.
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 | At Home with the Braithwaites - The Complete First Series |
 | "Braithwaites' Stew" | 2007-11-25 |
No matter what else I had planned to do, whenever this show came on, I found myself in front of the TV, holding my breath.
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 | Canon i470D Photo Printer |
| "last of a series of inexpensive printers equally inexpensive to operate" | 2007-08-06 |
I have owned the Canon i450, two i455s, and now this i470. Although they wear out quickly when you use them as much as I do--they are definitely not intended for that--these are lovely little printers, cheap to operate. The only thing you have to do is keep plenty of cartridges on hand, and use it, use it, use it, because otherwise the jets clog and the printer dies an early death.
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 | Rome - The Complete First Season |
| "what's not to love? Rome has it all" | 2007-06-10 |
This is one of the best productions I have ever seen. The story is compelling, the characters equally so, and the set.. ah, the set! Opulent would be an understatement. Watching Rome is like being in a wonderfully entertaining dream. Everything in it is larger than life.
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 | Canon Powershot S2 IS 5MP Digital Camera with 12x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom |
 | "camera doesn't live up to the press" | 2007-06-10 |
I love the look and feel of this camera but the program mode went out immediately, and to get sharp photos I have to use portrait mode in most cases. Am taking it back to get it fixed/replaced this week.
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 | Yardage Pro Sport Laser Rangefinder - 20-0015 |
| "Basic Bushnell laser rangefinder perfect for bowhunting" | 2007-05-05 |
I'm not sure any laser rangefinder would be effective at long ranges, but this one at least is absolutely perfect at close ones. It even works in dim light.
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