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Adding RAW (CR2, NEF, PEF, SR2, ORF) Files Support into Vista Photo Gallery

If you are shooting with your DSLR in RAW without JPG, then quick preview of your RAW files (Canon’s CR2, Nikon’s NEF, Pentax PEF, Sony’s SR2, Olympus’s ORF) is quite inconvenient, unless you have installed any third party viewer.

Thanks to modular design, camera manufacturers can create their RAW image codecs for Windows Vista, which will add RAW file support to the built-in Vista Photo Gallery.

After installing the relevant codecs, the support RAW file can be previewed as thumbnail. Besides, you can also double-click your RAW file, and it will be shown in Photo Gallery, just like any other typical image files.

However, the codec doesn’t provide any image editing support.

Click at the following links to get the relevant RAW codec.

By the way, on a side-note, there’s a new slider called “Clarity” in Photoshop Camera RAW, since version 4.1, which increases mid-tone contrast for selective parts of the image, resulting in a “punchier” image. Personally, I find this extra feature to be very useful. If you don’t see the Clarity slider in your Photoshop Camera RAW, it’s time to consider upgrading the version :)

Claim More Free Disk Space with Vista SP1

If you’re running on Windows Vista now, have you installed Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)?

Manual download and installation of Windows Vista SP1 was released on 18th March, and available from Windows Update beginning from 15th March. If you’ve not manually downloaded this service pack, chances are, by now, you should have been prompted for automatic update of Vista SP1 from Windows Update.

I’ve updated to Vista SP1 on 19th March, a day after the release of manual download hehe. Itchy hand lo… I was kind of frustrated with some performance issues and bugs residing in Windows Vista, and thus very much anticipating for the availability of Vista SP1, hoping to see some notable issues resolved.

7GB Free Space to Begin

For Vista 32bit, SP1 requires minimum 7GB of free space in C drive to execute installation. However, no worry, SP1 is NOT going to eat up your 7GB hard drive space. Continue reading ‘Claim More Free Disk Space with Vista SP1′

How to Transfer Your Songs from iPod to PC

I have a 30GB iPod as mobile “entertainer”, which I use for the following purposes:

  1. Store MP3s
  2. Store some latest pictures so that I can easily show-off my recent trips to friends
  3. Store podcasts

iPodHowever, just like any other iPod owner, I’m facing a kind-of-disappointing iPod “feature”, which only allow songs to be transfered into iPod, and not vice versa (transfer songs from iPod to PC). If given a choice, I don’t really want to keep 2 copies of the GBs of songs, especially in my office laptop; I would rather keep them all in iPod, and transfer any individual song out to PC if needed. But how?? Continue reading ‘How to Transfer Your Songs from iPod to PC’


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