The Facebook scandal

The Facebook scandal is not a surprise and, for those readers who aren't yet nauseated by the overwhelming amount of news and opinions on the subject, here is my view and interpretation. In my opinion the real issue is not that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica harvested data, personal and sensitive information for some commercial and...

KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE on Windows 10

If you run Windows 10 on your computer and get a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) with a KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE error message forcing you to reboot and if this happens when launching Photoshop CC (2015 onward), I found this solution which seems to be working. When the computer reboots, before you launch Photoshop, open C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop...

Yellow Screen on Camera Raw 9+

It was about time to replace my old laptop, which served me very well for a few years. My new hardware, packed with a 6th generation i7 processor and tons of RAM for image processing power, includes an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M graphic card. When I first open a RAW file in Photoshop through Adobe...

Reconvert a Linux formatted SD Card for normal use on Windows

If you have been playing with a Raspberry Pi and the usual SD cards, chances are that you also found yourself unable to reconvert your SD card back to Windows for normal use. When you try to reformat the card in Windows, you will most likely get to a point where you have only one...

Twitter, what a marvel: a champion of intrusion and privacy violation

To see and understand the best of social networking, I had to join Twitter. I utilised an email address which I use for a single purpose, this email address is shared only with a relatively small group of people with whom I share some interests. One of them has a Twitter account where some periodic...

HDR Photography, Tone Mapping… do your photos still look like photos?

HDR has been growing in popularity for a while in digital photography. No wonder, considering that the capabilities of our camera sensors are, with all the costly technology packed in them, rather primitive. The limited dynamic range of camera sensors is the reason why most pictures do not come out the way you see the scene...