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How about one of my dogs? http://sheppardphotographic.com/dog.jpg Out doors photos do show up the limitations of the camera, and low light work is not the greatest. But even so, when compared to other £50 cameras, it does do well.

I like turtles?

Canon PowerShot A470 Specs, Digital Camera Reviews on CNET UK Features * 7.1 Megapixels * 3.4x optical zoom * 14 easy to use shooting modes * 2.5" LCD screen * Motion Detection Technology * Face Detection Technology * Red-Eye Correction * DIGIC III and iSAPS * VGA and LP movies * Powered by AA batteries Point, shoot and share. The PowerShot A470 is available in four attractive colours - choose from Silver, Red, Blue and Green. 7.1 Megapixels A 7.1 Megapixel sensor produces sharp high quality photos, enabling large prints and detailed crops. 3.4x optical zoom A 3.4x optical zoom lens gives you the flexibility to frame as you want, up close or from a distance. It combines with digital zoom for up to 14x magnification. Shooting Modes and Special Scenes 14 shooting modes include Special Scenes like Sunset, Portrait and Kids & Pets, which make it easy to get great results in common shooting situations. My Colors in-camera photo effects such as Black & White can be applied during shooting. Motion Detection Technology Motion Detection Technology works to eliminate blur by compensating for subject motion and camera-shake. Part of High ISO Auto, the intelligent system uses various inputs such as Face Detection Technology and information about scene brightness to achieve blur-free images, and maximise image quality. Face Detection Technology Face Detection Technology ensures superb people shots by automatically setting optimum focus, exposure, flash and white balance. Face Select and Track lets you choose and track your primary subject, so you never lose a special face in the crowd. Red-Eye Correction Red-Eye Correction quickly and easily removes red-eye in camera. It can be set to remove red-eye automatically as you shoot or in playback mode, making it simple to achieve natural looking eyes even when using the flash. DIGIC III and iSAPS Canon's DIGIC III processor provides lightning quick responses and superb image quality. iSAPS technology uses shooting scene data to optimise camera settings even before a shot is taken, so you’re free to concentrate on capturing the moment. 2.5" LCD screen The bright 2.5" LCD screen is ideal for easy group viewing. Night Display mode aids visibility in low light while a selectable Grid Line display helps with composition. Movie Options Movie modes include Long Play (LP) for VGA (20fps) clips that use half the normal memory card space. Conveniently powered by AA-batteries The PowerShot A470 is powered by affordable, widely available AA batteries, ensuring that you can keep shooting for as long as you want to.

Heads up, these a470s are fantastic little cameras, fantastic quality pics, Argos are giving the away at £50. I have bought 12 for school and one for myself. Why? How about this pic. http://sheppardphotographic.com/spider.jpg This has been resized down to a 500kb file from an 4mb and is at a far lower resolution. The original is very much better. This from a camera that costs about the same as the bag I put my 50D in. It also takes great quality video in AVI format and supports SDHC. It has a tilt sensor and face recognition. You can also hack it with CHDK A470 - CHDK Wiki to make it do all sorts of fun stuff, like shooting in raw. Really this is a bargain, and even has a DIGIC III Processor! The same as a 450d SLR.

Our kids bang them on the desk if they don't work 100%, that usually kills them pretty quick.

L4d for 6 players with lots of weapons, I bought it on the cheap, release delayed on steam last night by 8 hours

Download details: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Deployment Tools for Advanced Users (32 bit) This contains a newer version of sysprep than I had been using, its up to ver 5.2.3790.1830

I may actually do it this way, though it would be nice to have it already installed. :/

It gets broken, Dynamoo's Blog: "The system is not fully installed": Windows XP, WMP 11 and Sysprep

There were problems with sysprep, xp and media player 11, there appears to be an updated version of sysprep that fixes this.Also mini setup fixes the issue, but I have not been able to confirm this. Anyone had dealings with this problem and if so how did you fix it?

The only real practical way of speeding it up is to move to vista 64 and add a ton of ram. 8 gigs or more.

So they are not high quality professional fonts then I take it? You probably don't need more than 100 for most work, mostly I have seen a lot of argument for only using 12 or so high quality fonts for 99% of applications. Unless you like your work to look like it was put together by the school secretary.

We rent a networked colour laser copier, works out at £100 per 1/4 0.5p per bw print and 5p per full colour A3 print. We don't pay for toner just the cost per page.Its a Rioch copier. Slashed our print costs.

This months PC pro has a write up on laser printers and costs.

Pretty much what I thought, I just wondered if anyone would actually use this, it seems clunky on the phone.

No problem, is great for getting vids off of of the bbc website too.

Is it a gimick, or is it worth using? Has anyone been using it? Now its free on all Three tariffs I have installed it but have no idea if I will ever use it

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software not streaming but does record well you need their lossless codec for quality, then convert in windows movie maker to something more portable.

ahhha, do you have an isa server? Or other proxy? It plays merry hell with most email. Perhaps the ohter ones have a direct connection to the county proxy?

Is probably an IE issue, not sure if easymail works with firefox, but give it a try.

The zooms are fantastic, still great.

Never mind, I got through eventually, found out that the T.A. buy putting a pencil onto the kbd membrane means we need a whole kbd swap out £30 ish which is not too bad. But still!

Can't seem to get through to their technical support, goes through to a mailbox full notice. Though you might be able to help, I need a send key for an alphasmart 3000, If you have a duff one then get in contact, I would certainly buy it from you at a reasonable price for spares.

Smart water is meant to be the mutts nuts, no idea on the cost. Website is as obtuse about cost as a BOSE acoustimass radio/cd player advert.

If you really want to deter them then mark everything, lot of time and effort though. Hot glue slows them down plenty.