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Craig Knapp
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Fort Belvoir, VA, USA
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Jul 10 '01
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Avid photographer, digital photo enthusiast, consummate computerphile, anti-MicroSoft, Soldier stationed at Fort Belvoir, VA.
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About knappcek
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09 July 2001
I used to be a professional photographer in the late 1970's using Nikon 35mm equipment and Mamiya and Bronica medium format cameras 6x4.5 cm. Joined the US Army in 1989 and am currently serving at Fort Belvoir, VA.
I enjoy developing MS Access database programs to automate inventory control and reduce the overlap of personnel doing similar reports.
I consider myself a "power" computer user, though I have no formal training in computer programming, I am a self-taught MS Access programmer. I also edit digital images using Adobe, Corel's PhotoPaint, and other similar software suites. I also edit digital video clips using Video Wave III and Raviscent software. I regularly develop large PowerPoint presentations incorporating audio and video clips, sometimes resulting in a PPT file of 40 Mb with over 40Mb of associated media files, which are briefed by military and civilian personnel.
Recently I have gone into digital photography and have given up film, unless I need to shoot something special with my 300mm Nikkor lens. I enjoy the freedom of shooting digital images, cropping, adjusting exposure, contrast, color balance and dodging and burning-in images to my liking then printing them on a good 2400 d.p.i. printer. It almost feels like I am back in the darkroom, I just don't have to wait to warm up the chemicals anymore.
I also enjoy finding useful Freeware and Shareware programs that help stabilize the Windoze (no spelling error) operating system. Specifically, I have downloaded the following software from www.cnet.com, under Downloads, (see my reviews there also under User Reviews): Cacheman (forces Windoze to release resources as programs are closed..sounds like it should have been part of the OS), RamBooster (frees up RAM at user pre-sets), Startup Control Panel (SCP allows the user to easily control what applications are loaded during Windoze startup, I found several programs that were loaded which were not listed when I pressed CTL + ALT + DEL, also found files that were loaded more than once, this program gives partial path for each file that is running in the background thus giving the user a clue as to whether or not to disable it), Diskeeper (a disk defragmentation program that does not give the error message "disk contents have changed - re-starting defrag process", of course the MS defrag program gives this warning and can take forever to defrage a drive. Hello? The disk contents are always changing because the the Windoze Swap File is on the hard drive. Diskeeper takes this into account, defrags faster and runs in the background while you are doing other work).
I also enjoy finding alternatives to MS software as most non-MS software is stable, use very little resources, and I can actually receive an e-mail or phone call back from their customer support. Programs I recommend: EasyOffice (*.DOC and *.XLS file creator, built in speech recognition, reads e-mail to you, who really uses PowerPoint at home anyhow?), WinDates (a small calendar reminder like the MS Outlook Calendar, uses only 2MB of RAM, is stable and runs constantly in the system tray), Pegasus (e-mail program, I can open it, and download e-mail faster than MS Outlook 2000 can even start up), Opera (a web browser that is fast, stable and also uses a small amount of resources, the user can easily turn the graphics off and surf the web faster as a result).
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Craig Knapp
knappcek@worldnet.att.net
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