I’ve been tagged by Randy Seaver of the Genea-Musings blog, asking me to carry on a meme where I share some facts about myself. Here are the rules: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Eight Random Things About Me
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Meme on November 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
John Sexton – Zooming Into a Life
Posted in Photos, tagged Deep Zoom, family photos on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post, I introduced Microsoft’s new Deep Zoom technology and showed how we could use it to zoom way in on a large family photo. This time, I’m posting a collage of 191 photos of my Dad that lets you zoom way in on each individual photo. If you’ve never seen Deep Zoom [...]
Deep Zooming Into a Family Photo
Posted in Photos, tagged Deep Zoom, DPI, family photos, Resolution, Scanning, Zooming on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One tough thing about posting family photos to the web is that you need to decide which resolution to post your photo at. If you have a high resolution photo that you’d like to post on a web page, you basically have two choices: Option A: Resize the photo (make smaller) so that it fits [...]
Review – Amiglia.com
Posted in Site Reviews, tagged amiglia.com, Family history, Family History Site, Family History Site Review, family photos, Upload by e-mail or with camera phone on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent post, I included a list of genealogy-related web sites, including sub-categories for “Online Family Trees” and “Social/Family Networking”. I’m going to start reviewing the sites listed in these two categories and publish some of my findings/thoughts here. As I review each site, I’ll try to go a bit beyond just publishing a [...]
