Author: emilgas

SSD (Solid State Drives) is FAST, and everybody knows that, but what happens when your put it in RAID 0 Mode? Well as most of you might think the speed doubles. Well in my system I have 3 SSD Drives in RAID 0 Mode, which I was surprised to find out tripled the speed. So…

In the United States, when the photos are taken then the photographer owns the copyright to the photos. The copyright owner (photographer) has the right to control a list of things, including: (a) who gets to reprint the photos, (b) who gets to make derivative works of the photos (such as a painting of a…

Have you ever wonder where do all the products at your local supermarket come from? You wonder that because of so much competition everything must be super good. Well, it turns out that there are only a handful of companies that control the whole market and the rest are their subsidiaries. Check out this diagram…

This is the Scoville Scale which I find very interesting. From time to time I want to refer to this index because I’m curious to see how spicy that chili pepper is. If you want to know more about it you can read it on Wiki Page

I get this question asked quite a lot and half the time people don’t really mean or understand what RAW means. However, this post is not aimed at those who actually do know the difference. “Can I get all the RAW images?” What people really mean is if they can have all the pictures that…

I saw this online and found it to be very true especially in my field of Wedding Photography, and so I decided to share…

  You’ll have probably noticed by now that the Sun doesn’t set in the video, but instead goes round and round. This is because when the video was shot, the ISS was orbiting parallel with the Earth’s terminator line. The terminator (not Schwarzenegger, this time), or twilight zone, is the moving line that separates day…

I was never able to utilize the full capacity of a Gigabit (1000Mbps) Ethernet connection up until now.  The way I was able to do that was to have two computers with SSD (Solid State Drive). Then I copied data from one computer to the other. Just see for yourself…   In the past whenever…

Rotating JPEG’s without loss in quality Up until today I was hesitant to rotate my photos right after downloading them from my camera. The reason was that rotation is considered editing, and every time you edit JPEG file loose quality. Now after doing some research I found out that I was wrong all along. If…

Pasadena’s Old Town public parking had a billboard ad displaying my photography.

Took a picture of myself during work

In my earlier blog posts True Power of Your PC I stated that I’m able to do practically everything with only 4GB of RAM. That’s still is true, however yesterday I noticed that my current system which has 8GB of RAM is still running out of memory when rendering the video with Adobe Encore. Some…

Cooling Down Your Intel i7 2600K CPU I was never big on Overclocking the CPU, simply because it was not worth the compromise. I didn’t think 10-15% performance increase is worth losing the stability of your system. But Intel’s new P67 chipset along with i7 2600K CPU make it worthwhile simply because there are no…

Symantec Ghost is the number one software used for mass image deployment in enterprises. There are many others tools, including free and open source, but Ghost by far is number one. Sysprep is a utility developed by Microsoft to facilitate the mass image deployment process. What sysprep does is creates unique SID (Security ID) for…

What is a Fast Computer, and do you really need one? There are many applications, and special needs that require fast computer processors. I edit videos, and to me rendering portion is where the true power of CPU comes in handy; rest of the time it not as relevant. Faster CPUs such as Intel’s i7 Core will surely help…

Many people get fooled at the local drug store when they are buying over-the-counter medicine.  A good example of this would be Tylenol.  I constantly get into arguments with friends and relatives about this subject, but there are people who refuse to believe that the Generic Version of Tylenol – a drug called Acetaminophen – is…

What motivated me to write this blog was when my friend purchased a stereo system using the points he earned from his credit card. He was so excited to share the new that the $180 system cost him Zero dollars because he used the Rewards Points that he accumulated over the past year. Well, I…

Should you overspend for the popular brand? Or, are they all the same? When my first baby was born, I received a gift basket from the hospital while we were at the hospital. I thought that was very nice of them, and it was cute at the same time. In there I found some baby literature,…

This might sound like a Promotional Ad for Costco, but it’s not. The only reason I want to write this piece is because I was discussing it with my cousin the other day whether it’s worth signing up for a Costco Membership or not. Before I give my answer let me say that if you…