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PrintBucket wishes all its esteemed members a Bright and Prosperous Diwali and a Wonderful Year Ahead.

To make it more sweet PrintBucket offers you flat 20% off on personalized photo calendars, greeting cards, photo prints and posters.

All peronalized photo gifts will be gift wrapped. You can create 12 months desk calendar from your pictures or greeting card for any occasion.Use coupon code DIWALI2008 at the checkout page to avail discount. There is no limit to the number of times you can avail this discount. This offer is valid till 10th Nov. 2008.

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Recovering a deleted picture from a memory card

You were on a vacation and shot wonderful pictures at the beach. But your young one accidentally deleted the images from your digital camera's memory card. But there is no need to panic. Your pictures can still be recovered. You should only take care that, as soon as you know something wrong has happened, immediately stop using that memory card. If you still continue to use your memory card, the chances of recovering the images from your memory card are very less. There are many softwares available in the market for recovering the images from the memory card. Sandisk's rescue pro deluxe is one of them. In most of the cases, it can recover the images succesfully from the card.
With RescuePro, you can easily recover accidentally deleted images, lost digital images or data from memory card, RescuePro recovers images documents, mail, video, music or just about anything. Featuring innovative media recovery algorithms, RescuePro displays previews of the recoverable data. It also features a world-wide unique recovery algorithm for MPEG audio and MPEG video recovery (MPEG-1/2/3).
RescuePro is available free with Sandisk's Extreme III cards or it can be purchased at a very nominal price. Read more about it here.

MegaPixel ! Myths demystified

Many people ask me, what is megapixel? As the name suggests 'mega' means 10 to the power of 6 and 'pixel' is the smallest picture element in an image. So 1 megapixel is 1000000 pixels. So does it means that more megapixels in a camera will produce much better images. If I were to answer this question, I would say yes and no. Why 'Yes', because more the pixels in an image, more the detail in an image. With more megapixels, you can blow up the picture to a bigger size with more sharpness. But if you were to take only regular size prints (4x6 inches), then you only require 2 megapixel image. For 4x6 inches image, there is no fun of clicking at 12 megapixels. This would only add the bigger filesize and more time for transfering the images to yur computer. But again if you like to tweak your images before printing, then clicking on a higher megapixel helps. Say, you are shooting a wildlife, but you don't have high zoom lens in your camera, then shooting with a high megapixel camera will help in cropping the image later on the computer while keeping the sharpness intact. But how many of you crop the images on the computer. So I would suggest 5 megapixel and above for shooting everyday pictures.

For more about resolution, you can read resolution dymystified on www.printbucket.com