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Publicación: ¿Sentarse a esperar?
A pesar de que tu editor publicará una referencia a tu libro en su web, lo listará en su buscador interno y lo dará de alta (por ejemplo) en Amazon, es complicado que tu público objetivo lo encuentre de manera directa. Puede suceder que el tipo de libro...
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Selección avanzada con GIMP
En un artículo anterior, describí cómo hacer una selección básica, o bien algo más compleja combinando diferentes áreas mediante adición y substracción. Además, GIMP proporciona herramientas más avanzadas para mejorar la selección, lo que conseguirá que...
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¡Viva Venezuela! (o no)
Ayer tuve un visitante desde la zona de San Cristóbal, en la región de Tachira (Venezuela). Debió estar bastante rato por aquí, tengo registradas visitas a 32 páginas diferentes... No creo que se dedicase a copiar los artículos - no se moverán de aquí,...
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GIMP + InkScape + Scribus: Rueda de Color
Muy bien, en muchas ocasiones has intentado crear un diseño para una web, o un logotipo, y los colores no acababan de encajar entre sí... ¿qué hacer? Scribus podría tener la respuesta... Scribus incluye una herramienta llamada "Rueda de Color", que calcula...
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Changes to the blog...
As it seems, Over-Blog has changed its policy for advertisement payments (I'm still pending confirmation); now it's clear to me that I will NOT get rich with this blog... So I decided to remove most of the "invasive" advertisement. If you were around...
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Photo course...
A couple of weekends ago I was presenting a short session on photography at the "Centre Cívic La Fusta" in Valls, where I currently live, as an activity of its "Banc del Temps" (Time bank, an interchange program). I was presenting the basic function and...
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¡Viva Venezuela! (or not)
Yesterday I had a visitor from San Cristóbal, in Tachira (Venezuela). He / she was quite a long time around, I have registered up to 32 different pages viewied... I don't think he / she was copying / downloading the posts - I don't intend to remove them,...
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Cambios en el blog...
Al parecer, Over-Blog ha cambiado la política de pagos por publicidad (sigo esperando una confirmación...), y ya tengo claro que NO me voy a hacer rico con este blog. Así que he decidido eliminar gran parte de la publicidad "invasiva". Si habías consultado...
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GIMP + InkScape + Scribus: Colour wheel
OK, you have tried many times to produce some design, for a web page or a logo, and colours did not seem to match in the end... what to do? Scribus might have the answer for you... Scribus includes a tool called "Colour Wheel", that calculates different...
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Adobe again...
Probably inside their commercial strategy, Adobe has released their CS2 suite for free access. No support is provided, and the software is already a few years old. But for basic edition, this should be enough for most of us... You may find the downloadable...
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How to backup your Over-Blog posts (I)
Well, this is a bittersweet post... A blogging platform should allow the bloggers to make periodic backups to prevent IT failures, or rather (since in this case Intellectual Property remains on the blogger, as per Over-Blog contract), to move the posts...
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Edit 06
In this case, the lonesome rose was already separated from the background. To improve the effect, I used a big aperture, controlling the speed value, so that it remained within acceptabe values. The result was not very satisfiying to me. Leaves were too...
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Edit 08
This image, captured in the pre-alpine region of Bavaria, intended to be a minimalistic rendering. The texture in the hill is produced by cows, as they stroll on bland grounds in the rainy season (Spring). Colour image did not show much colour, indeed....
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Edición 08
Esta imagen, obtenida en una zona prealpina de Baviera, pretendía ser una imagen minimalista. La textura que se puede observar en el prado está producida por el ganado, al caminar sobre terreno blando en época de lluvias (primavera). La imagen en color...
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Edit 07
This image is the result of some strange vacation, full with rain; during a few days in May 2013, the Tegernsee lake (in Bavaria, Germany) was flooded. This statue was meant to be in a lakeside promenade, but it was completely surrounded with water......
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Una nueva app: booX
Un grupo de estudiantes de Informática la Universidad de Valencia está a punto de lanzar una App para Android para el intercambio de libros. ¿Su nombre? booX. Puedes dejarles tu dirección de correo electrónico en http://ooomf.com/boox para que te avisen...
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A guide to selecting an Ethernet external hard drive
The continuous improvement in home networking (also valid for small companies) has made external LAN drives a valid option for low-cost data storage, independent from each user's computer. This article could review the basic characteristics that those...
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What is FAT disk format?
FAT stands for "File Allocation Table" - and it is just that. Some kind of index, that the operating system (OS) uses to store the real position (in the hard drive) of each single file. The OS uses an area of the hard drive, which is not visible to the...
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Adding some light here...
I just published a small glossary for terms and acronyms that I use in these posts. So far, only Spanish version is available, but I am already working in the English version (links are not active). As I post new articles, I will update the list of terms...
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A new App: booX
A group of Computing students of Valencia University is about to launch an Android App for books interchange. Its name? booX. You may leave your email address at http://ooomf.com/boox so that you will get a notice when it is released... From the beginning,...
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Cómo publicar un libro online: Edición del libro
Los espectaculares avances del software de edición, junto con la impresión digital bajo demanda, están permitiendo la creación y publicación de libros en lotes muy reducidos - desde un único libro hasta unos cientos de unidades. A pesar del precio algo...
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Coloreado de fotografías en blanco y negro con "multiplicar"
La fotografía en blanco y negro sigue teniendo gran cantidad de adeptos, a pesar de la situación actual de cámaras ultramodernas, programas automáticos, 3D. Pero no todo es escala de grises. Existen multitud de técnicas para el coloreado de fotografías...
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Spiegelreflex: Das muss man beachten
Spiegelreflexkameras sind heutzutage günstiger geworden - Die sind aber nicht alle gleich... Wenn Sie sich eine SLR kaufen wollen, müssen Sie erst ein paar Sachen prüfen... Mindestens sollten Sie auf folgendes beachten: - Marke: Falls Sie schon eine SLR-Analogkamera...
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XQD Cards - update...
In my last post, I already indicated that I want to go (one year...) to the CES in Las Vegas. Sony has just announced they will present their range of XQD memory cards (developed by the Compact Flash asociation) there. More speed, to work with the (also...
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Recovering old photographic equipment (Part I)
Winter is coming, and I almost did not see Fall go by.... I need to go out for a stroll, take pictures, forget about the job for a while... My latest proposal: to recover my old lenses from the analogue camera (a Praktica MTL-5B) to use them in the current...