How to kill mosquitos

How to Kill Mosquitoes - NOT A JOKE

 

You may be aware of this, How to Kill Mosquitos - NOT A JOKE I can't wait to try this in the summer! I was at a deck party awhile back, and the bugs were having a ball biting everyone. A man at the party sprayed the lawn and deck floor with Listerine, and the little demons disappeared. The next year I filled?a 4-ounce spray bottle and used it around my seat whenever I saw mosquitoes. And voila! That worked as well.. It worked at a picnic where we sprayed the area around the food table, the children's swing area, and the standing water nearby. During the summer, I don't leave home without it....Pass it on. OUR FRIEND'S COMMENTS: I tried this on my deck and around all of my doors. It works - in fact, it killed them instantly. I bought my bottle from Target and it cost me $1.89. It really doesn't take much, and it is a big bottle, too; so it is not as expensive to use as the can of Bug-spray you buy that doesn't last 30 minutes. So, try this, please. It will last a couple of days. Don't spray directly on a wood door (like your front door), but spray around the frame. Spray around the window frames, and even inside the dog house. Now these are Good Mosquitos!!!

An incredible night scene

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Lightroom Plugins - Windows 7 Themepacks for Lightroom

Lightroom Plugins - Windows 7 Themepacks for Lightroom

Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s “Tree Publisher” Lightroom Plugin

Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s “Tree Publisher” Lightroom Plugin

This Lightroom “Publish” plugin (for Lightroom 3 and later, Win and Mac) allows you to export copies of your Lightroom photos to local disk in a folder hierarchy that mimics either the folder structure of the original master images, or the collection hierarchy you build in the Publish Service.

This might be considered a Publish version of Tim Armes' Tree Exporter plugin, but works in Lr3 only and is “Publish”, not “Export”.

Unlike a normal export, this Publish service allows you to create an ongoing relationship between the photo in Lightroom and the copy on disk. The tree on disk is refreshed for any changes (new images, removed images, and image changes) each time you “Publish”.

Personally, I use this plugin to replicate my whole Lightroom catalog as a tree of small JPEGs on a shared disk that my wife can access from her computer. Allowing her to have immediate and simple access to my photos helps encourage her to put up with the more annoying aspects of my photography (e.g. perpetually waiting for me to catch up when we're out and about, because I'm lingering at some leaf or flower or something to take pictures). As any married photo-hobbyist knows, anything that helps with the SAF(Spousal Acceptance Factor) is a good thing

The Canon 7D and eye-fi pro x2

Eye-Fi SD Card Works with Canon 7D and CF Adapter in WiFi Direct Mode for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

For years now, it’s been unfortunate that Eye-Fi doesn’t make a Compact Flash (CF) version of their Eye-Fi camera cards for professional DSLR cameras that lack the consumer appropriate SD card slots.

However, the latest Eye-Fi cards do work with proper SD/CF adapters in CF based DSLR cameras, at least the set of items I have work fine:
Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Eye-Fi Pro X2 8 GB Class 6 SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-8PC

SD/SDHC/SDXC to High-Speed Extreme UDMA mode CF Type II Adapter support 16/32GB and over 64GB Sells for under $15.

I think the key to making this work is the adapter. Not all adapters are created equal, and this one appears to be pretty fast, and doesn’t block the WiFi signal. I’ve seen numerous comments from others saying the Eye-Fi won’t work in the Canon 7D, or other DSLRs that are CF based. Hopefully this clears up some confusion, especially when it comes to what’s needed in a Compact Flash Adapter.

The SDHC Eye-Fi card has a max speed of 6MB/s (48mbps), which is too slow for 1080p on the Canon 7D, but plenty fast for taking pictures (either not in burst mode, or for short bursts).

The Direct Mode of of the Eye-Fi works great, and is really easy to set up if you understand the basics of what an ad-hoc network is. Better yet, the Eye-Fi app is free for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

Pictures transfer really fast over 802.11n between the Eye-Fi and your iOS device, but will also transfer just fine over 802.11b/g.

Images that get transferred show up in the Eye-Fi iOS app and in the “Camera Roll” photo album. The Eye-Fi app is multitask and push enabled, which means you can have images stream over to your iOS device automatically, and get little badge alerts when they arrive.

It gets better…

You can set up your social networks and photo services like Facebook and Flickr with your Eye-Fi account, so images can go directly from your camera to your iPhone and then over 3G be sent automatically to the sites you want. This also includes having them sent via FTP to your blog or website. All of this can also be manually or semiautomatically set up.

A nice companion app would be Adobe Photoshop Express, also free in iTunes. You can use this app to crop and apply all kinds of effects before uploading to wherever you’d like.

If you think about the workflow here for a second, it’s really pretty cool. Imagine being somewhere and having that perfect scene for a nice Facebook profile update. You can take the picture with your DSLR, transfer it quickly to your iPhone, crop and adjust the image, and then upload to Facebook over 3G, or pretty much anywhere with any number of apps and services.

This could also work well for client previews. Of course if there’s WiFi at the location, you don’t need to be in Direct Mode (the ad-hoc network) and can send the images even faster by going directly to the Internet from the camera where a client could be reviewing the shoot in progress.

I would imagine the other Eye-Fi X2 cards work as well, and that they work in the Canon 5D MKII as well has other DSLRs. I’ll be testing other CF cameras out as I get access to them. Meanwhile, the Eye-Fi X2 Pro is working well in other SDHC based cameras such as the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V and the Canon SD4000is.

http://kevinjedwards.com/298/eye-fi-sd-card-works-with-canon-7d-and-cf-adapter-in-wifi-direct-mode-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/

Clean a DSLR camera

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Marry Your Camera to Your Mobile With This Wireless SD Card

• Eye-Fi Mobile X2
• Digital Cameras & Camcorders
 
• · $80 
• · Eye-Fi

Reviewed by Michael Calore   ·  April 12, 2011

Boy, are my Instagram friends going to be jealous. Now, when I share a photo using my favorite Lomo-Twitter mobile app, my photos are going to look sharper, crisper and better than everyone else’s.

Why? Because I’m not using the crappy camera on my phone. I’m using a nice prosumer camera with anEye-Fi Mobile X2 card in it. Every time I press the shutter, my photo transfers wirelessly and directly to the phone in my pocket. From there, I can add whatever fancy, appy goodness I want, and share it on the internet.

Eye-Fi has been making waves for a while by producing SD memory cards that can transfer pictures from your camera to your PC wirelessly. We’re big fans — we gave the Eye-Fi Pro a great review in 2009.

This new product, the Eye-Fi Mobile X2, builds on Eye-Fi platform but eliminates the PC part of the equation and sends photos directly to an iPhone, iPad or Android device over the air.

Slap this card into your prosumer shooter, download an app to your mobile device, and every picture you take with your camera will appear in your phone or tablet’s photo library about 10 seconds later. If you have neither smartphone nor tablet (really?), you can just send the photos to your PC, as with the older Eye-Fi cards. It also has 8 GB of regular SDHC storage, too.

The new functionality is something Eye-Fi calls “Direct Mode” — it transfers your photos wirelessly even if there’s no Wi-Fi connection available. So if you’re out birdwatching at your cabin on the Lake Isle of Innisfree, the card itself becomes a hot spot and transfers the photo using the Wi-Fi radio in your phone.

There are Eye-Fi mobile apps for both iOS and Android devices. I tested it on a Nexus S running Android. (The iPhone/iPad app was developed concurrently, but it won’t be available for download in the App Store until around April 16 or 17.) We were only able to test the Android version, but the company says the experience will be the same on both Android and iOS.

The apps are free, but the card costs $80. A regular Class 6 8-GB card is about $15, which means the extra $65 adds nothing but convenience.

Eye-Fi is launching the Mobile X2 card on April 17, when it will be exclusive to Best Buy for a short time before showing up at all the other retail outlets. As a bonus, anyone with a last-gen X2 Eye-Fi card — Explore X2, Connect X2 or Pro X2 — will get Direct Mode enabled on their existing cards via a firmware update.

You start by plugging the card into a Mac or Windows PC using the supplied USB card reader. The card mounts on your machine, then you browse it and install a simple desktop app. Here inside the app, you configure the card to transfer to and from your various devices.

You can also set it up with login information for any wireless networks you may use. You can add login info to the card with one click if your computer can see a network, or you can add networks manually.

I didn’t do any of this when I tested it. I just downloaded the Android app and gave permission for the card to talk to the phone, then popped the Eye-Fi into a Canon G11 and started shooting. The Eye-Fi defaulted to Direct Mode and transferred each picture to the Nexus S about 10 seconds after I took it.

So, the Wi-Fi login information isn’t necessary if you’re using Eye-Fi’s Direct Mode, but it’s nice to have that stuff stored on your card so you can utilize Wi-Fi when its available. The transfers in Direct mode take about five seconds each. But once I added the Wi-Fi information to the card and connected to the same network as the phone, I was able to shave a second or two off of each of the file transfers.

I was shooting in the highest quality JPEG setting on the Canon. The Eye-Fi transfers the whole file, whether video or still photo, without employing any additional compression. If you prefer to shoot RAW, the phone probably won’t be able to understand the file type, but it can store the files.

But the killer feature of the Eye-Fi Mobile X2 is that it turns any camera into an always-on device. You’re out walking around and you see something you want to Tweet or Tumbl or what-have-you. You’re no longer limited by the crappy camera in your phone. You can shoot through real glass using a quality sensor, then whip out the phone and upload the picture.

Sure, you could argue that for super-processed Instagram photos or for Facebook party shots, the phone in your pocket is good enough. And you’d be mostly right. But the Eye-Fi lets you use whatever camera you want and post the results without having to go home and dump the card.

That’s enough of a convenience factor to get enthusiasts excited. It should also raise a few eyebrows among users of iPad photo-editing apps like Photogene and PixelMagic.

In addition to the hardware, Eye-Fi also offers a cloud-based storage service called Eye-Fi View. You can upload web-accessible versions of your photos there and store them for seven days. If you need more time, you can pony up $5 per month for an Eye-Fi View account with no limits on time or storage space. Using Eye-Fi’s web service, you can also auto-publish to any of the two dozen or so supported photo sharing sites, including all the biggies.

This isn’t a notable feature for most of us, though, because we already have that end of the equation figured out. But for your Pep Pep who just started a Tumblr, it might be the best thing he’s ever used.

WIRED Sure to please Instagrammers and mobile Facebookers who prefer to use real cameras. Easy to set up and use. Mobile apps are svelte and free. You can stop wrestling with ShutterSnitch.

TIRED You’re paying $80 for the convenience of not having to walk over to your computer, empty your SD card and sync your phone. For some, that’s a bargain. For others, not so much.