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Photo Friday's Monitor Calibration Tool Makes Easy-on-the-Eyes Monitor Tweaks

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to adjust your monitors without a lot of fussing with multi-step processes, the calibration tool at Photo Friday can help you tweak your monitor.

Nothing is a true substitute for hardware calibration, but if you're not working in the print industry or as a professional photographer, you don't need to calibrate your monitor to match the physical world—you need to calibrate it so that the contrast is correct and you can use the monitor without straining your eyes.

Over at photography site Photo Friday, they've created a simple calibration image you can use to adjust the brightness and contrast on your monitor to an optimum level. Visit the link below and follow the simple instructions to tweak your screen.

If you like your calibration tools to have a few more sliders, bells, and whistles, check out previously reviewed Online Monitor Test. Have a favorite software or hardware tool for monitor calibration? Let's hear about it in the comments.

Photo Friday Monitor Calibration Tool [via MakeUseOf]

by Jennifer Lawinski, Posted Mar 4th 2010 @ 2:00PM

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Stephen Von Worley

How much of America is dotted with fast-food chain restaurants?

Weather Sealed takes a map of America's fast-food joints and views it through the lens of "Star Wars" to show which areas are dominated by the McDonald's 12,000 strong fast-food empire and which are controlled by "rebel forces," a.k.a. everyone else.

The hold-outs?

Los Angeles is a Jack-in-the-Box enclave, and most of Texas seems to be Sonic territory. In the rest of the country, however, the McForce is strong.

If the rebel forces -- Wendy's, Burger King, Carl's Jr. and Dairy Queen among them -- were to join together, their empire would overtake the McForce, but Weather Sealed doesn't think its likely.

"The rebels already have the numbers -- over 24,000 locations in total -- but they've divided and conquered themselves by strict adherence to the peacetime principles of brand identity and corporate structure," Weather Sealed blogger Stephen Von Worley writes.

"Y'all need to work in harmony to succeed with the winning strategy: an Alliance!"

Yet, McDonald's holds strong in a few pockets of the Northeast and Midwest, even if the rebels do team up.

Kinda makes us want a burger.

Don't Hit F1 in Windows If a Web Site Asks You To

Microsoft has announced a scripting vulnerability affecting Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 users using Internet Explorer. A dialog pop-up that convinces the user to hit F1, the commonly known "Help" button, could then run code on the machine, which would lead to, well, all kinds of unfortunate things. A patch will arrive, but in the meantime, let no web site direct you to call for help. Original image via Tom's Guide. [Microsoft TechNet via Gizmodo]