Hi! there Folks, May I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving wherever you are in America. I have the above digital camera, and I would like to obtain a copy of the review for this camera. It being a US brand and not sold outside the US, I would like to know which magazine, would have reviewed it? I would hope that the magazine would have archives, which I would be able to access and download the review? Please do come back to me as I live in Scotland and I am unfamiliar with US Computer Mags? Best wishes, Fred. -- Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional attachment on this e-mail transmission. -- Be yourself because no one else is qualified. >From Cumbernauld, Scotland E-Mail: - [email protected] anti-Spam, change second @ to dot Web Site: - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fremac/ Surnames: - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fremac/webdoc001.htm Lanarkshire FHS #387. Glasgow & West of Scotland FHS #5261.

I went to Google Search (www.google.com) and entered "RCA Digital Camera Model CDS6300" and found several reviews. Fred MacKay <[email protected]> wrote:Hi! there Folks, May I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving wherever you are in America. I have the above digital camera, and I would like to obtain a copy of the review for this camera. It being a US brand and not sold outside the US, I would like to know which magazine, would have reviewed it? I would hope that the magazine would have archives, which I would be able to access and download the review? Please do come back to me as I live in Scotland and I am unfamiliar with US Computer Mags? Best wishes, Fred. -- Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional attachment on this e-mail transmission. -- Be yourself because no one else is qualified. >From Cumbernauld, Scotland E-Mail: - [email protected] anti-Spam, change second @ to dot Web Site: - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fremac/ Surnames: - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fremac/webdoc001.htm Lanarkshire FHS #387. Glasgow & West of Scotland FHS #5261. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

Fred, Whenever I'm looking for a review, I just put the make/model in a google search and come up with a bunch of hits. Here's one for that camera: http://www.sysopt.com/userreviews/dcamera/reviewhtml/RCA_(Thompson_Multi media)_CDS_6300.html Don't know about specific magazine reviews, although ZD Publishing has their reviews on the web. S. >-----Original Message----- >From: Fred MacKay [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 8:49 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SP] Re. RCA Digital Camera Model CDS 6300. > > >Hi! there Folks, > >May I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving wherever you are in America. > >I have the above digital camera, and I would like to obtain a >copy of the review for this camera. > >It being a US brand and not sold outside the US, I would like >to know which magazine, would have reviewed it? > >I would hope that the magazine would have archives, which I >would be able to access and download the review? > >Please do come back to me as I live in Scotland and I am >unfamiliar with US Computer Mags? > >Best wishes, > >Fred.

I believe my wishes have finally been satisfied! I've been looking for a digital replacement for my favorite 35mm (HEAVY) outfit - a Nikon with an autofocus 28-300mm zoom. At 72, I just am no longer comfortable carrying this combo around all day. The answer? - an Olympus C-730 with a 10X OPTICAL zoom, all small enough to fit in the palm of my hand. This is a NEW Olympus offering, and is an upgrade to the C-720, with an 8X lens. My question . . . is there someone in this group with ersonal experience with either of these to cameras? Anything you particularly like, or more importantly, you don't like? I've been VERY reluctant to give up the beautiful performance of my film camera, until someone at least comes close to my wishes. I wish the C-730 provided a bit more than 3.2 megapixels, but I guess I can learn to live with it. Alas, no more 20" x 30" enlargements! Thanks for any comments . . . praise or pans. Carl Sachs

Try this handy little program called DIRPRINTING. From the website: "DirPrinting is a simple program for viewing and printing directories. It offers a drive/directory window and a file list, which can be arranged and sorted according to various criteria. This list can be sent to any printer (printing preview and storage included). Functions as "copy to clipboard", "save as file", "send by email", "include subdirectories" or "file filter" are all available." As an example, I use this for cutting and pasting details from CD's I have made, into an Index in MSExcel. I also print-out the listing to make a cover for the CD. Great little aid, and it will probably do what you require. Find it at: http://www.majusoft.de/DirPrinting/index_en.htm Lance -----Original Message----- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SP] Microsoft ACCESS - links --=======57882A12======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-7A0E5887; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Australian PC User October 2002 cover CDs include a macro for changing fi= le=20 names of the format drive\folder\filename to a field code that will display the image in Word. I don't know whether this would then be transferrable to Access. I haven't tried this but if anyone would like to, email me privately and=20 I'll send you the two files. One a readme on how to use the macro, the=20 other the macro. They are 26kb and 31kb. Does anyone know how to read the filenames of a folder into a text file? = I=20 remember doing this in DOS days long ago but can't remember what I used. Cheers, Cathy [email protected] At 13:30 26/11/02 -0800, you wrote: >If one uses Access to sort and catalogue the photos that are already in >folders and subfolders on your hard drive, can you in one of the columns >or rather fields make it a link to the actual photo? I know that's not >a thumb nail, but is it possible? > >S. Fasano --=======57882A12=======-- --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 2002-11-13 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 2002-11-13

--=======7FFD689D======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-59E144E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Lance, That's just what I need to do as well - print a list of what's on CDs. Cheers, Cathy At 13:57 27/11/02 +1000, you wrote: >Try this handy little program called DIRPRINTING. > > From the website: > >"DirPrinting is a simple program for viewing and printing directories. I= t >offers a drive/directory window and a file list, which can be arranged a= nd >sorted according to various criteria. This list can be sent to any print= er >(printing preview and storage included). Functions as "copy to clipboard= ", >"save as file", "send by email", "include subdirectories" or "file filte= r" >are all available." > >As an example, I use this for cutting and pasting details from CD's I ha= ve >made, into an Index in MSExcel. I also print-out the listing to make a c= over >for the CD. Great little aid, and it will probably do what you require. = Find >it at: http://www.majusoft.de/DirPrinting/index_en.htm > >Lance --=======7FFD689D=======--

--=======57882A12======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-7A0E5887; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Australian PC User October 2002 cover CDs include a macro for changing fi= le=20 names of the format drive\folder\filename to a field code that will display the image in Word. I don't know whether this would then be transferrable to Access. I haven't tried this but if anyone would like to, email me privately and=20 I'll send you the two files. One a readme on how to use the macro, the=20 other the macro. They are 26kb and 31kb. Does anyone know how to read the filenames of a folder into a text file? = I=20 remember doing this in DOS days long ago but can't remember what I used. Cheers, Cathy [email protected] At 13:30 26/11/02 -0800, you wrote: >If one uses Access to sort and catalogue the photos that are already in >folders and subfolders on your hard drive, can you in one of the columns >or rather fields make it a link to the actual photo? I know that's not >a thumb nail, but is it possible? > >S. Fasano --=======57882A12=======--

Thank you Lance and Cathy. I will look into this after the holidays. Sincerely, S. Fasano

Thank you Cathy for your help. It's the investigations that makes it interesting. Kind regards Ron & Pat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Pinner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [SP] HAIR STYLES. > --=======376C4891======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-207B22A9; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > I can't do it from photographs but I understand that putting your hair up= > =20 > was a sign of being grown up. It wasn't done until you left school thoug= > h=20 > most of the population left school much earlier if they went at all. Girl= > s,=20 > particularly in upper classes, didn't drift into adult society but "came=20 > out". I understand that the age of the debutante was about 18 although=20 > earlier in the century it could be a year or two younger. > > Cheers, > Cathy > > At 23:43 25/11/02 +0000, you wrote: > > >Hello List. > >A lot of the people on this list are working with old photographs. > >In Victorian times girls at a certain age changed their hair style from=20 > >plaits to "Up". > > >From the evidence in old photographs could anyone tell us what that ag= > e was. > >Many thanks and kind regards. > >Ron & Pat Reed. N/Yrks. UK. > > --=======376C4891=======-- > >

Hello Carol. Thanks for your help. We had a wonderful holiday in B.C. a few years ago. Kind regards Ron & Pat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "h2owgn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [SP] HAIR STYLES. > Hello Ron & Pat, > > Dating photographs can be a lot of fun AND very frustrating!! I have > purchased a couple of books on the subject. Clothing is very important > along with hairstyle but there are many other aspects that can date a photo. > For instance, the type and colour of card used to print the picture, the > background used, the signature style of the photograper etc. I believe > there are some sites on the internet which explain some of this. > I have a book called Looking at Old Photographs by Robert Pols, published by > the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd. 2 - 4 Killer > Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire BL0 9BZ I have found this book to be > very helpful and I believe I purchased it at a family history fair here in > British Columbia - so you should have no problem finding it. > > Good Luck! > > Carol > B.C., Canada > > >

--=======376C4891======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-207B22A9; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I can't do it from photographs but I understand that putting your hair up= =20 was a sign of being grown up. It wasn't done until you left school thoug= h=20 most of the population left school much earlier if they went at all. Girl= s,=20 particularly in upper classes, didn't drift into adult society but "came=20 out". I understand that the age of the debutante was about 18 although=20 earlier in the century it could be a year or two younger. Cheers, Cathy At 23:43 25/11/02 +0000, you wrote: >Hello List. >A lot of the people on this list are working with old photographs. >In Victorian times girls at a certain age changed their hair style from=20 >plaits to "Up". > >From the evidence in old photographs could anyone tell us what that ag= e was. >Many thanks and kind regards. >Ron & Pat Reed. N/Yrks. UK. --=======376C4891=======--

If one uses Access to sort and catalogue the photos that are already in folders and subfolders on your hard drive, can you in one of the columns or rather fields make it a link to the actual photo? I know that's not a thumb nail, but is it possible? S. Fasano

Hello Ron & Pat, Dating photographs can be a lot of fun AND very frustrating!! I have purchased a couple of books on the subject. Clothing is very important along with hairstyle but there are many other aspects that can date a photo. For instance, the type and colour of card used to print the picture, the background used, the signature style of the photograper etc. I believe there are some sites on the internet which explain some of this. I have a book called Looking at Old Photographs by Robert Pols, published by the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd. 2 - 4 Killer Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire BL0 9BZ I have found this book to be very helpful and I believe I purchased it at a family history fair here in British Columbia - so you should have no problem finding it. Good Luck! Carol B.C., Canada

Hello List. A lot of the people on this list are working with old photographs. In Victorian times girls at a certain age changed their hair style from plaits to "Up". >From the evidence in old photographs could anyone tell us what that age was. Many thanks and kind regards. Ron & Pat Reed. N/Yrks. UK.

Hi! there Folks, I have been reading your messages about digital photo albums and I would appreciate your input about the above. To find out more about it go to < http://www.flipviewer.com/ >, and all that I know about it is it is a programme in three versions and I would appreciate it if SKS has knowledge of this programme and if you have input to give me? Best wishes, Fred. -- Unless specifically stated otherwise in this message, there is no intentional attachment on this e-mail transmission. -- Be yourself because no one else is qualified. >From Cumbernauld, Scotland E-Mail: - [email protected] anti-Spam, change second @ to dot Web Site: - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fremac/ Surnames: - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fremac/webdoc001.htm Lanarkshire FHS #387. Glasgow & West of Scotland FHS #5261.

Before using Excel for sorting photos or family events, check out the range of dates that can be sorted. Sorting by year only might be okay. Some genealogy programs allow scrapbooks to be rearranged by drop & drag but that is not as convenient as "sort by date" genealogy scrapbooks (years from 100 AD to about 4000 AD for historical items or science fiction.) Also consider the cost of the software. MS Office with Excel (& Access in Office Pro) used to be supplied with "office" computers assembled mostly for working with text. New computers advertised to customers interested in working with pictures and video might have a simple word processor but no longer come with MS Works and it didn't open Excel files. An upgrade to Office is very expensive if the old version doesn't work on a Windows XP computer or isn't included. My only family file in Excel was a list of land transactions so it was easily printed while the program was available. yyyy-mm-ddTopic.jpg will allow a set of images to be listed in logical order for a slide show. I keep Windows sub-folders to about 50 images just like Grandpa planned his 1950's trays of colored slides by topics and time periods. Excel or other image organization programs do not print family tree box charts showing relationships. Each researcher will need to decide if it is worth the extra work to keep a separate program for photo details. My own choice is one genealogy file for each branch with about 250 pictures available. Convenient backup of single files of 50 mb or less with inserted pictures is more important to me than keeping all names in one database or searching through all photos. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "h2owgn" > Anyway..........I'm thinking of just using Microsoft Excel for my > photo-sorting problems. I don't think the actual picture could be entered > into Excel but I already have scanned and saved them onto a disk and I have > printed out many of them and put them into the various "family books" that I > am making, so re-entering the actual photo is redundant.

Carol, Another nice feature of Excel is that you can transfer all the data into Access at a later date if you get so many photos you feel you need a more professional program for searching and sorting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "h2owgn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [SP] Digital Photo Albums Helen

Carol, If you decide to use Excel for a database of your photos, I would encourage you to make a copy of the file everytime you are about to sort it. It is quite easy to scramble your file if you choose the wrong options for sorting. But that should be no big drawback. Excel has a feature where you can add a comment/note about the entry which is very useful. The comment is out of signt unless you choose to view it. There is a little flag to show that there is a comment. This would be in addition to all the columns of whatever size and number you want. If you will have an enormous number of photos, it is probable that Access would be a better choice, especially if you already own that program. With Access there is no risk of accidently scrambling your file and you would have better search capabilities. Of course backups would still be very wise. Helen Allen

Sorry List! I thought I was replying directly back to the "sender" (blush) instead of the whole list!! My apologies! Carol

Hi Vera, Sorry for the lengthy delay in replying to your email requesting information on a program for "us greenhorns". You just wouldn't believe how nutso my life has been lately!! Anyway..........I'm thinking of just using Microsoft Excel for my photo-sorting problems. I don't think the actual picture could be entered into Excel but I already have scanned and saved them onto a disk and I have printed out many of them and put them into the various "family books" that I am making, so re-entering the actual photo is redundant. This of course is all for the genealogy nuts out there - and I don't know if you qualify for that particular club!!? Then I would enter into Microsoft Excel each photo by descriptions e.g. Male or Female, Description of Subject (sitting, standing, holding a book, weird hat etc.), Photographer, City (that the photo was taken in) etc. It is my understanding that you can "sort" in this program so I could call up all photos with ladies with hats or all photos taken by the photographer White of Vancouver. Now.......the big problem..........I COULD BE WRONG!! I haven't had time to play with Excel and lord knows I haven't had time to read the directions for the program ( that, of course, is the last resort anyway.....right??). So..........that's it!!! Not much help huh?? I'm a green horn too so if you get it figured out before I do.......let me know!!! Thanks! Carol Coquitlam, B.C.