Kristal Kraft asked me to followup on my photo class - specifically, when you're taking an inside shot, how do you get to see what's outside the window.You take your photo and make it into two layers. You treat each layer separately, so in one you adjust the contrast and coloration to make the in
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01/14/2007
There hasn't been enough rain in St. Petersburg, Florida, this year to keep the grass green. From lack of water, or bugs, or sprinkler problems, we're getting patches of brown on many lawns. This has led to an addendum in offers/contracts in which the buyer is requesting the seller to resod porti
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01/13/2007
Florida International Museum, in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, has announced the opening of it's new exhibition, Wolf to Woof: The Story of Dogs. This interative exhibition will run from January 19 to May 13, 2007. There is a series of events planned during that time, the first of which is t
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01/13/2007
2006 in St. Petersburg and Pinellas County, Florida has been a slow year in sales, turning around and heading up only in December 2006. Buyers slowed because their homes haven't sold, and not all sellers were motivated to sell. It was a standoff - buyers weren't making offers because they feared
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01/13/2007
Figures are out from the Pinellas Realtor Organization, and the numbers confirm an upturn in the market, which showings and offers on our listings have shown as well, starting the two weeks before Christmas. December shows the first upturn in absorption rate in months. For single family homes, t
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01/13/2007
A week ago, before the CyberStar Summit in San Antonio, Alan Mah gave a pre-conference class on Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 - about 50 of us attended. Helped by Josh Lorenz, he showed us lots of tricks and shortcuts of the many things we can do in Elements. Learning to use and modify layers was
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01/13/2007
One Note is a Microsoft program that is especially useful on laptops, because you can take notes, make drawings, import photos, and even use it as a control of your listings and clients. I particularly like the note taking feature, and use it at all the conferences, meetings and classes I attend.
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01/12/2007
This wonderful family compound was built in 1925 or before. The main building has 5,088 sq ft plus uncounted space on the third floor that has angled ceilings. Behind it is a building with a 3 car garage and rec room on the ground level, and two guests apartments on the second floor (these are n
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01/12/2007
Visistat is a web analytics tool that can slice and dice your website in many different ways - now only how many hits you get, but where they came from - by browser, by state, even by city. It can also track which page the visitor came in on, and where he went while on your site. Search terms he
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01/12/2007
It seems that every time I go through airport security, I forget something prohibited and have to throw it away - from tweezers to miniperfume that was itself legal but wasn't in the proper sized ziplock bag. This week I thought I had it all down pat: when I arrived at the security line I had my
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01/12/2007
