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One generally does not realize how much actually goes in to taking a photo. How the elements all work together, continuity, symmetry, balance all play a big role in the overall quality of a photo.

One key point is having access to sites that are all relevant to what you need. I was googling around looking for a good photographer blog.  While there are many out there, it pays to have access to a concise relevant blog with lots of information, as there are heaps of small things that i picked up from there, that I can now use even on a Saturday night at a nightclub or while taking landscape photos on a weekend away.

I do encourage you to start if you have access to a digital camera as it is so easy to share your photos. Don’t forget that if your mobile phone has a camera you can use that too. My n95 outperforms my first digital camera. It’s fast and easy to use, and far more convenient when you need to take a photo then and there.

Thankfully, Chris Hill from Albury has figured out the solution:

Drought Newspaper Article

I haven’t been able to verify this as I don’t have access to the Border Mail, however I really enjoyed reading this. I don’t know whether the funniest thing is that he wrote the article, or whether the newspaper actually printed it is funnier.

I have talked about spybot before, and I highly recommend you use this tool. It is incredibly powerful and efficient. Make sure you download this and install it. Very easy to use, so just do it.

The next weapon in my arsenal against spyware is AdAware personal. Yet again available free from here.

Antivirus, one would think that something like antivirus is only worth getting the best, and so you MUST have to pay for it, but for the average, (non commercial), Joe, there is free antivirus solutions that is more than competent for what we need.

I personally have only ever used AVG on my personal computers, it is fast, does not lag up my system, does not mess up my gameplay and updates regularly enough for me to feel comfortable. You can get it from the avg site.

One that my relatives seem to use is Avast! home, personally I’ve never used it, but they’ve never complained, so I would love some feedback on this if people have used it, and make sure you grab it from the avast! site.

So there you go a basic security package to prevent viruses and spyware, the two things that slow down computers. If your computer is running slow, give it a try before you reformat, what’s a couple of minutes trying to do this quickly over a full reformat and reinstallation of your software.

Also just a disclaimer, I’m not saying that these options are the ULTIMATE BEST EVER NEVER GET A VIRUS/TROJAN/SPYWARE/POSSESSED CAT or anything like that, these are some easy to use tools, that can be used as part of an arsenal to combat these problems, except for maybe the possessed cat.

I have been using Facebook almost since they first allowed international members. It’s a fantastic site for social networking, I’ve found friends on there that I would have had no form of contact with any other way, and I highly recommend it. However as your friends list starts creeping into the hundreds, you notice that all of a sudden you get more and more application requests. It gets ridiculous. Like 50 on an average day, over a hundred on a really busy day. And my name starting with an A doesn’t help either.

But alas my dream cure has arrived. Since Facebook has obviously received countless requests to block application requests, (the closest you can get as far as I know, is to delete all your applications and block applications all together, or the next best is to go through and block each one, one by one.), as shown by the countless groups with thread after thread on Facebook support wont write back to me on the issue.

Well the cure is here:

If you want to ignore all requests (should work on any browser), use this here:  http://www.ignoreall.com/

If you want to Block all requests or Block and Ignore all requests, (this one requires you to use firefox, with greasemonkey and addon a script, all instructions provided), go here: Block ALL Application Requests with One-Click

I use the block and ignore addon and it has made my life a million times easier. I would recommend this to anyone who thinks such a utility would be useful.