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All new sticky toy4/29/2023 MLB is instructing that "each club staff member involved in the process should apply mud in a uniform manner ensuring the same mud-to-water ratio is applied to each ball. The memo followed review of video of each team's rubbing procedures. "Baseballs should not be out of the humidor for more than two hours at any point prior to first pitch, and if it will take club staff longer than two hours, the baseballs should be pulled out of the humidor in smaller batches." "All baseballs projected to be used in a specific game must be mudded within three hours of all other baseballs being used in that game, and must be mudded on the same day that they are going to be used," the memo states. MLB is mandating a ball be stored in a humidor for at least 14 days before game use, and ball storage must be recorded by the home team's gameday compliance monitor and then certified in a signed form by the clubhouse manager. Use of a humidor, began by Colorado in 2002, expanded to Arizona in 2019, three additional teams in 2020, then a total of 10 last year and all 30 this season. ![]() Scrutiny of baseball preparation - a minimum 13 dozen are readied for each game - has increased in recent years. Titled "Updates to Baseball Storage & Handling," a copy of the memo was obtained by The Associated Press. MLB has been working on standards over the course of the season in response to feedback from players and sent a memorandum outlining the changes on Tuesday to general managers, assistant GMs and clubhouse managers. ![]() NEW YORK - Major League Baseball is standardizing procedures for rubbing baseballs and their removal from humidors in an effort to establish more consistency amid complaints about slickness that followed the crackdown on sticky substances.
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Darktable handbuch deutsch4/28/2023 You will see no image when you select the parameter of “color label” unless you have added the color labels you images. As you can see on the step above, you can filter the images by several parameters, including color labels. Those attributes can be used to manage all of the images you have imported to Darktable. If you ever used Lightroom before, then you must already familiar with stars as well as color labels. No wonder if the tool comes with a bunch of features to allow you manage your images. Adding image ratings and color labelsĪlways keep mind that a half of Darkable is an image manager. You can set the thumbnail by sliding the handle located right below the image viewer. The image themselves will displayed in the center area of Darktable interface. If you want to select image on the folders you have imported to Darktable, you can select the parameter of “film roll”. This will ease your job in exploring the images you want to work with. There are several parameters available to filter the images. To explore the images you have imported to Darktable you can click the “collect images” on the lighttable mode. In addition, you can also import images directly from the recognized cameras by selecting the “scan for devices”.Īs mentioned, lighttable and darkroom are the menus you will be working under most frequent. You can use this menu to import the images you want to manage and also edit.ĭarktable allows you to import a single file or folder to edit. On the lighttable mode, you will see a menu called “import”. ![]() Import photos to DarktableĪssuming that you have installed Darktable on your computer, the first thing you need to do before getting started to work is obviously to take the photos you want to manage and edit to Darktable. Let’s start this Darktable tutorial by importing photos. This tutorial will be focusing on those two menus. You will use the “lighttable” menu to manage image library, while the “darkroom” menu is used to perform image editing and ajustments. “lighttable” and “darkroom” are the menus you will be using most frequent. You will see 6 main menus at the upper right-corner of the Darktable interface. Darkable comes with a dominant black interface, just like Lightroom. The very first thing you need to do before being able to use Darkable is to learn its interface. You can download the binary files of Darkable on its official site. It’s an ideal option if you are just a photography hobbyist since you don’t need to buy it to be able to use it. In addition to Linux, it is also available for Windows and macOS. Those files store the edit info you have made on each image. xmpfiles in the folders of the images you have opened with Darktable. Darktable accesses your images “read-only” and the changes you made will be saved in. In other words, whatever the changes you made, the original images remain the same. What is non-desctructive? It’s a mechanism of image editing that won’t affect the original images you are editing. It’s because of Darktable is non-destructive image editor. ![]() You can fix your images by adjusting certain parameters whereby the changes can be displayed in a real-time, but they (the changes) won’t really be applied until you export concerned images. The concept of Darktable is also the same as Lightroom. Darktable can also be used as a bridge that connects your computer and camera. ![]() Second, it is also capable of organizing your images - be it RAW or JPG - as well as making adjustments like adjusting the exposure, white balance so on. Without any aim of underestimating other tools, Darktable is by far the best open source alternative to Lightroom.įirst, the tool has a similar interface to Lightroom. There are a bunch of Lightroom alternatives you can install and use on your Linux computer. Same as Photoshop, Lightroom is also exclusively only available for Windows and Mac. It’s a versatile tool which you can use as a photo management as well RAW processor. Lightroom is another Adobe’s popular product. In terms of photography, we already know there is GIMP as the best open source alternative to Photoshop.
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Logitech unifying software mx ego4/28/2023 ![]() Hands-On: Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball What a nice early Christmas present the MX Ergo has turned out to be! Related reviews My M570 trackball, which has served me well for the past five years or so, has been relegated to the Trackballs I Have Known and Loved box. ![]() I have it paired to the Unifying receiver on my Acer all-in-one desktop system, and to Bluetooth on one of my Raspberry Pi 3 systems. ![]() So that's about it for this lovely new trackball. I think I will continue to live and work very happily without it. The one thing I can say, though, is that this capability probably opens up a whole new world of security headaches for corporate IT departments. I have no idea how this works, other than it requires installation of the Logitech Options software, which is only available for Windows and Mac. The only thing that I can see on the Logitech webpage which doesn't work on Linux is the FLOW technology, which apparently lets you copy and paste text and files between two computers. If I've got them all identified correctly, that makes a total of 9 buttons on the MX Ergo trackball! In Linux terminology, the mouse button events produced by each button are: ButtonĪll of these buttons do the right thing (ie what you would expect) on all of the Linux distributions I have tried it on so far. If you're counting, that is five different button events which can be produced just by the scroll wheel!įinally the Forward and Back buttons, located at the edge of the top of the trackball, produce two more mouse button events. Rolling the scroll wheel up and down produces two mouse button events, and tilting the scroll wheel to either side produces two more mouse button events. One small irritant here, though, because it is all too easy to move the wheel, thus causing some kind of unintended scroll movement, when you are actually trying to click the wheel. It obviously has the usual left and right mouse buttons, and only slightly less obvious is the middle button, which is activated by clicking the scroll wheel. Switching between paired systems is then done with a single press on the Easy Switch button, and the number LEDs show which host connection is active. Then start pairing mode on your computer, either via the Solaar utility or the Bluetooth manager. Then you put the trackball into pairing mode (it doesn't matter at this point if you are going to use Bluetooth or Unifying), by pressing and holding the Easy Switch button for a few seconds, until the status led starts to blink rapidly. First, you select the host channel you want to use on the trackball (1 or 2), by pressing the Easy Switch button. Pairing is then basically the same for either Bluetooth or Unifying. ![]() Fortunately, this package is now included in the repositories of most Linux distributions, so you can install it quite easily via whatever software manager or package manager your distribution includes. If you want to use the MX Ergo on a Linux system (as I obviously do), you will need to install the Solaar package so that you can manage the Unifying receiver. Pairing and switching between systems is controlled by the Easy Switch button and indicator LEDs, located right on top of the trackball. |