The AMD-iville Horror - Transcript

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David Lawrence: Alright I appreciate it. Now you can get versions of Ad-Aware and SpyBot Search & Destroy that cost you money and if you want to support them that*s great but I wound not buy any of the other commercial items that are available. I just wouldn*t do it. These work best and they work best in concert with each other so unlike antivirus software, which you should only run one at a time and we recommend Panda there. These three pieces of software should run in concert with one another so run one, then run the next one and then run the next one and do it everyday. And hopefully that will get you cleaned up.

180039 online is our telephone number, coming up next we have got a Geek Speak and we will tell you what an Image Scanner is? Alright so standby, toll free telephone number here is 180039 Online, our E-mail address david@onlinetonight.com and my screen name on AOL is Lawrence.

David Lawrence: Geek speak, alright the Geek Speak for this hour where we tech term and turn it into plain English. By the way Geek Speak is a registered trademark of this particular radio program and I do appreciate all of the people out there who have chosen to use Geek Speak and that*s fine. I don*t want to get all crazy about it but we were doing it first, we have got the trademark so. We take tech term and turn it into plain English before your eyes that*s why we call it Geek Speak. And in this case we are talking about Image Scanners. Image Scanners, now an Image Scanner which you know can be everything from a document scanner to a slide scanner to a photo scanner to an optical character recognition device. They all take a photograph printed text, handwriting, a slide, a negative, a print and bit by bit convert what it sees into the data into a digital image. Now, most of the time when you see a scanner you will see a flat-bed scanner where you lay down a piece of paper you lay down a photograph and you hit a button on the machine itself or you open up Photoshop or some other piece of image editing software and you acquire the image.

It sends a signal out to the scanner that says okay scan it line by line, dot by dot at a particular depth usually 300 dots per inch or 600 dots per inch or 1200 or 1440 and it basically breaks up the image into dots that are 1/300th or 1/600th or 1/1200th and so on of an inch. And it registers what that dot looks like and it does it for the entire page so you can imagine that more dots it looks that, that converts to a number for data, the bigger the file is going to be. So that*s what an Image Scanner does. It shines a light on something or through something if it*s a slide or a negative and registers what is seen by the scanning device itself as data. Colors, brightness, luminance etc, all putting in and then when you recreate it on your screen it looks just like, looks just like it, doesn*t it, it does. Now, you can scan things and then save them as much lower quality but not apparent to the eye. If you scan a nice big huge head shock for example an 8x10 head shock it could be megabytes in size, in raw format in *tif* format in *jpeg* format and then when you reduce it in size or in pixel depth from 300 depth per inch down to 72 for use on the web or from 16 million colors down to 256 colors for use on the web. All of a sudden these big huge photos, they get dropdown to just a couple of cay and yet there is not that much of a difference in how good they look. And that*s thanks to the Joint Photographers Experts Group, Joint Photographers Experts Group who created the format called *jpeg* which is the one constant among all scanning that goes on.

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